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MELVILLE, N.Y., August 27,
2002 -FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), a leading
provider of network storage infrastructure software, announced
today that CNT, the global storage networking expert, has
joined the FalconStor Professional Services Program and will
provide implementation and consulting services to global
IPStor customers and prospects.
FalconStor’s Professional
Services program is designed for qualified consulting firms
and systems integrators that are committed to delivering
professional services for SAN and NAS solutions over Fibre
Channel, IP/iSCSI, SCSI, NFS and CIFS. CNT’s global
professional services team provides customers with consulting
services to design and deploy storage infrastructure solutions
that provide superior data availability and reduced
operational costs.
"As clients continue to
build out their networked storage infrastructure, they look
for solutions which deliver performance, flexibility and
scalability as their enterprise grows while addressing
today’s management and availability and cost containment
challenges," said Ernie Parsons, VP and GM of CNT’s
Storage Solutions Group. "Combining FalconStor’s
technology leadership with CNT’s proficiency in professional
and consulting services reflects the commitment of both
companies to delivering end-to-end storage solutions for
customers."
CNT’s comprehensive storage
solution set includes market leading storage systems, high
availability servers, enterprise backup solutions, storage
management software, managed bandwidth and storage networking
products. These offerings combined with CNT’s consulting and
implementation services deliver the entire solution seamlessly
to the customer. In addition, with their various storage
networking solutions and integration services capabilities,
CNT helps clients leverage their storage infrastructure to
provide enterprise data access and lower the cost of
management, while meeting clients’ availability and recovery
requirements.
"The professional
services team of FalconStor and CNT worked seamlessly to
design, test and implement our new storage infrastructure,
utilizing IPStor to consolidate, aggregate and provision our
existing data storage resources," said Kevin King, IT
engineer at NRG Energy, a wholly owned and unregulated
subsidiary of Xcel Energy. "The implementation team
efficiently devised a configuration leveraging our existing
storage infrastructure investments with IPStor’s high data
availability and faster recovery features for our
mission-critical Oracle, Exchange and SQL databases."
"CNT brings their years
of real-world experience in designing and implementing storage
networks to the table, with their technology expertise and
multi-platform and multi-vendor approach," said Bernie
Wu, FalconStor vice president of business development. "CNT’s
enthusiasm and passion for providing the best possible
products and services to SAN clients make them an ideal
services partner. FalconStor looks forward to expanding this
relationship to include developing deeper ties with CNT
products and professional services."
FalconStor Professional
Services Providers have demonstrated SAN expertise and provide
customers with FalconStor-certified consultants and in-house
SAN lab infrastructure for design validation and testing.
FalconStor PSPs offer services covering all phases of the SAN
lifecycle: storage environment strategy and assessment, SAN
architecture design, SAN implementation, and SAN management.
This press release includes
forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from the
forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties
include: the early stage of FalconStor’s business; delays in
product development; market acceptance of FalconStor’s
products and services; technological change in the storage and
networking industries; competition in the storage networking
software market; the ability to achieve profitability;
intellectual property issues; and other risk factors discussed
in FalconStor’s reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and other
reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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