FalconStor StorSafe

FalconStor StorSafe, also known as FalconStor VTL, is a Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution designed to facilitate efficient cloud migration and ensure robust data protection. This product caters to small, medium, and large enterprises across various industries. IT professionals, system administrators, backup and recovery specialists, data center managers, and cloud service providers can all benefit from the comprehensive features and capabilities offered by FalconStor StorSafe.

Key Features

Compatibility: StorSafe VTL seamlessly integrates with existing infrastructure, emulating an industry-standard physical tape library over iSCSI or Fibre Channel. According to the vendor, it is fully compatible with leading enterprise backup software, including IBM i BRMS.

Deduplication: By leveraging patented deduplication technology, StorSafe VTL can significantly reduce highly redundant daily backup data by up to 95% over time. The vendor claims that this can result in substantial cost savings by minimizing storage and transfer costs by up to 90%.

Hardware Flexibility: StorSafe VTL offers the flexibility to utilize a wide range of physical or virtual servers, internal disks, or external block or object storage. According to the vendor, customers have the freedom to choose their preferred hardware vendors.

Scalability: StorSafe VTL can scale to meet demanding performance requirements, whether running in a single virtual machine or utilizing up to nine dedicated servers in a cluster. The vendor states that customers can easily expand their storage capacity by adding more compute, block, or object storage as needed.

Advanced Security Features and Immutable Backups: StorSafe VTL incorporates advanced security features to address accidental data loss, ransomware attacks, and other threats. The vendor claims that it ensures air-gapped, immutable backups, enabling reliable data recovery from any point in time.

Performance: StorSafe VTL delivers impressive backup capture speeds of up to 40TB per hour on-premises. Additionally, it deduplicates backups in real-time by up to 95% over time, optimizing storage utilization. The vendor asserts that restore speeds are equally impressive.

Offsite Protection: StorSafe VTL provides robust offsite protection for backups, adhering to the 3-2-1 backup strategy. According to the vendor, it enables the export of virtual tapes as physical tapes or replication to a secondary StorSafe VTL instance deployed in various environments, such as IBM PowerVS, MSP's cloud, Azure, or AWS.