FalconStor Software announced that it has partnered with Total Tec Systems to offer FalconStor storage virtualization appliances and data protection appliances to the mid-market. Total Tec will offer the FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Storage Appliances with embedded data de-duplication, the FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) Storage Appliances, and the FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) Appliances for environments using HP servers and HP storage.

“The combined capabilities of server, software, and storage that appliances enable, is preferred by many mid-market end users,” said Wendy Petty, Vice President of North American Sales at FalconStor. “Our partnership with Total Tec Systems will support the expansion of FalconStor's reach into this market. The new relationship with Total Tec Systems will provide FalconStor with an opportunity to rapidly gain market share among users who prefer these solutions on HP hardware.”

"FalconStor is a market leader in data protection and de-duplication solutions with an award winning family of products that will complement our current offerings," said Paul Collins, Vice President, Technology, North America at Total Tec Systems. "We are especially pleased to be offering their appliances with their rapid deployment and insurance of business continuity for our customers."

FalconStor VTL Storage Appliances are designed to offer backup with enterprise-class reliability and efficiency to allow users the ability to back up data with little to no interruption in activity and to leverage de-duplication to keep more data on-line for longer periods of time. They support both physical tape drives and virtual tape libraries and integrate seamlessly with the FalconStor VTL Enterprise Edition. This allows remote offices to replicate virtual tapes over the WAN to the corporate data center for centralized management or compliance.

FalconStor CDP Storage Appliances provide complete data protection and continuous data availability across both physical and virtual systems, effectively eliminating backup windows and the need for mandatory restores, to deliver true business continuity. The appliances incorporate mirroring, application-aware snapshots, and database agents to ensure the continuous availability of mission-critical data.

The FalconStor NSS Appliances deliver fast and simple iSCSI or Fibre Channel (FC) storage. NSS appliances provide storage virtualization, provisioning, and heterogeneous storage management. All models include FalconStor TimeMark snapshot capabilities for fast recovery to known good points in time.

The FalconStor VTL Virtual Appliance and the FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance are both pre-configured, ready-to-run software applications packaged with the operating system inside a virtual machine running under VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3. Total Tec will also offer FalconStor CDP and VTL Virtual Appliances for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.