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FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS)
Maximizes Whole Health Management´s Business Continuity and
Resilience to Disasters
FalconStor Software, Inc
December 12, 2007
Turnkey NSS appliance offers storage virtualization and
provisioning services over iSCSI or FC SAN via A-A cluster
for high availability and enterprise class storage services
to minimize operating cost
Melville, NY -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC),
the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions,
announced today that Whole Health Management, Inc., a
leading operator of on-site corporate health and wellness
centers, has implemented the FalconStor® Network Storage
Server (NSS), powered by the FalconStor® IPStor®
virtualization platform. Chi Corporation, a leading
FalconStor Solution Provider partner, integrated the
FalconStor IPStor SAN consisting of two NSS appliances into
Whole Health´s existing SAN infrastructure.
Chi integrated two NSS appliances into a High Availability
(HA) cluster with 24 drives each, housed at Whole Health´s
secure data center, to manage Whole Health´s SAN
infrastructure. The SAN hosts Whole Health´s critical
business operations data and utilizes TimeMark® snapshots
and replication option between the FalconStor NSS at the
main office and the remote data center for disaster
recovery.
“We store everything from email to confidential electronic
medical records,” said Chuck Siemon, Chief Information
Officer at Whole Health. “The FalconStor NSS saves us time
and money, optimizing the use of disk space and no longer
requiring the reconfiguring or ordering of new disks for
each server we purchase. Due to the FalconStor NSS´ snapshot
capabilities, we have a solution that is better than data
encryption for protecting copies of our data. We are
confident that the FalconStor NSS will keep our confidential
healthcare data secure and in compliance with HIPAA
regulations.”
Whole Health chose the FalconStor NSS as a long-term
solution that will grow with their data. Currently, they are
using approximately 60 percent of their 4TB capacity.
“Our partnership with FalconStor gives Chi Corporation
access to technology that solves very specific business
problems for our customers,” said John R. Thome, Jr., Vice
President at Chi Corporation. “Whole Health has a need to
store tremendous amounts of data and to make accommodations
for large scale future storage needs. The FalconStor
solution allowed Chi to differentiate itself from the
competition.”
“The healthcare industry is growing exponentially and has
strict guidelines for privacy and retention,” said Wendy
Petty, Vice President of Sales at FalconStor Software. “The
implementation at Whole Health gave us an opportunity to
reinforce how well FalconStor solutions assist firms in
complying with the ever-increasing data security
requirements of today´s healthcare environment such as the
HIPAA guidelines, while also ensuring the firm´s own data
protection needs.”
FalconStor NSS appliances deliver fast and simple iSCSI,
Fiber Channel (FC), or network attached (NAS) primary
storage. They provide storage virtualization, provisioning
and heterogeneous storage management. All models include
TimeMark® snapshot capability for fast recovery to known
points in time. Data on the appliances may be optionally
replicated to another appliance for real-time disaster
recovery protection. Two NSS-series appliances can be
interconnected for mirroring and active/active failover,
ensuring high availability operation.
About Whole Health Management
Whole Health Management is a leading operator of on-site
corporate health and wellness centers in the United States.
Since 1981, Whole Health has provided integrated
occupational health, urgent, preventative and primary care,
physical therapy, employee assistance counseling, wellness
and fitness services to corporate employees and their
families. Whole Health clinics deliver significant savings
to corporations through lower health care costs, increased
productivity, reduced employee sick time and lower pharmacy
costs. Whole Health currently serves more than 350,000
employees, and in many cases, spouses and dependents, at
more than 70 sites including many large corporations and
Fortune 500 companies. For more information about Whole
Health, visit www.wholehealthnet.com.
About Chi Corporation
Chi Corporation is a Storage Solutions Provider specializing
in data storage, backup, & disaster recovery. Their
offerings include tiered storage (DAS, SAN, NAS), tape and
D2D backup. Chi is known for its expertise in iSCSI & Fiber
Channel SAN technologies, replication, disaster recovery, &
business continuance. Chi Corporation provides these
products and services for the SMB market place to enterprise
environments.
About FalconStor
FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market
leader in disk-based data protection. We deliver proven,
comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the
continuous availability of business-critical data with
speed, integrity, and simplicity. Our technology-independent
solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor®
virtualization platform, include the industry leading
VirtualTape Library (VTL) with Single Instance Repository
(SIR) for de-duplication, Continuous Data Protection (CDP),
Storage Virtualization, and Replication for disaster
recovery and remote office protection. Our products are
available from major OEMs and solution providers including
EMC, SUN, Brocade, H3C, and COPAN and are deployed by
thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to
Fortune 1000 enterprises.
FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices
throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific regions including
Paris, Tokyo and Taiwan. For more information, visit
www.falconstor.com or call 1-866-NOW-FALC (669-3252).
FalconStor FalconStor Software, IPStor and TimeMark are
registered trademarks of FalconStor Software, Inc., in the
United States and other countries. All other company and
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