Posts Tagged FalconStor

Nexsan and FalconStor attack Data Domain’s dominance in data deduplication.

Posted by bmottram in Wikibon on August 11, 2009


Nexsan and FalconStor announced today, a partnership that integrates the data deduplication software from FalconStor with Nexsan’s highly energy efficient, AutoMaid storage architecture.

Being someone who is heavily biased in favor of MAID like techniques and storage optimization techniques such as data deduplication to drive meaningful energy efficiencies, this is a partnership that I loudly applaud.

I look at the integration of Nexsan’s AutoMaid and FalconStor’s File-interface Deduplication System (FCS) as the best of two worlds delivering what is probably the most energy efficient, on-line data storage solution for active and semi-active data.

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FalconStor – The Other De-Dup Option

Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on June 3, 2009


On Monday, June 1st, 2009, FalconStor Software announced some pretty compelling data reduction numbers. Depending on whose numbers you believe FalconStor’s single-node performance is 20-30% faster than Data Domain’s single node performance. What’s more, in its reference environment discussed here on Wikibon and in a press release here FalconStor’s Single Instance Repository (SIR) was able to achieve a 40:1 data reduction ratio –  20:1 using SHA-1 deduplication at a block level and then 2:1 using hardware compression cards from HiFN. FalconStor also has file level data reduction using pretty much the same code.

 

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