Nexsan and Falconstor Certify AutoMAID Virtual Tape Solution for the Channel

• Tuesday, 24 October 2006

Cost saving VTL solution that provides faster backup and recovery now available through solution providers

Derby, UK and Woodland Hills, Calif., 24 October, 2006 – Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative and secure storage solutions, and FalconStor (Nasdaq: FALC), the leading developer of proven data protection solutions, today announced the availability of a certified enterprise-class virtual tape library solution that combines FalconStor’s VTL software and Nexsan’s extreme-density storage systems

The high-capacity virtual tape solution can scale up to 315 terabytes in a single rack, providing energy efficient disk-to-disk backup functionality for even the largest volumes of data. Nexsan’s AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy-saving technology allows the solution to place its disk drives to an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data.

With FalconStor’s VirtualTape software product line, and Nexsan’s storage hardware, customers can leverage cost-effective SATA-based disk arrays to provision virtual tape drives and libraries to backup servers attached to an iSCSI/IP or Fibre Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN), without the need to change existing backup software configurations

“Using disk-based Nexsan storage as an alternative to tape in the backup and recovery process is an intelligent way to dramatically accelerate backup traffic and improve the success rate of backup operations while lowering administrative costs,” said Brendan Kinkade, vice president of marketing at Nexsan. “The combination of FalconStor’s VTL with high capacity Nexsan storage enables customers can take advantage of the unparalleled efficiency and speed of Nexsan disk without changing the tape management procedures they already understand.”

“Leading-edge technologies like FalconStor VirtualTape and Nexsan disk arrays present an extremely attractive solution for large scale enterprise users,” said Bernie Wu, vice president of business development, FalconStor. “This is a channel-friendly approach for custom-designed systems to consolidate the management of backup resources and enhance the reliability of backup operations.

Through its intelligent use of disk in the backup process, the joint the solution eliminates much of the burden, complexity and difficulty of using tape for backups and restores. Because the data actually resides on Nexsan SATA-based disk with AutoMAID, users experience dramatic improvements to the backup and recovery operation while significantly improving the total cost of the overall solution and reducing associated operational costs.

The FalconStor VTL software combined with Nexsan AutoMAID™ disk array is available immediately through worldwide solution providers.

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About FalconStor

FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC) is the premier developer of adaptive data protection solutions that optimise data centre efficiency and business continuity for all IT infrastructures. The company´s innovative storage virtualisation, continuous data protection (CDP), disaster recovery, and virtual tape library (VTL) solutions integrate seamlessly to ensure rapid data recovery and simplified storage management. Available from major OEMs, system integrators, and resellers, FalconStor products — including the award-winning IPStor®, VirtualTape Library, and DiskSafe™ software — are deployed worldwide by governments, educational institutions, and Fortune 1000 enterprises across industries including aerospace, energy production, financial services, healthcare, law, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, New York, with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific region. FalconStor is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). For more information, visit www.falconstor.com or call 1-866-NOW-FALC (866-669-3252).

About Nexsan Technologies

Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., has changed the way IT managers are storing and protecting corporate data. From the outset, Nexsan has moved to the forefront because it recognised the need for corporate managers to ‘do more with less.’ Nexsan was the first to deliver award-winning storage solutions that provide correct-cost pricing, without sacrificing features and performance – attributes that make good business sense for virtually every size company. Every Nexsan product is a total solution, with unprecedented ease of use, features, performance and reliability, all priced to fit the requirements of IT managers worldwide.

For more information, please see the company's website at www.nexsan.com.

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Nexsan and Assureon are trademarks of Nexsan Technologies. FalconStor Software, FalconStor, DiskSafe, and IPStor are trademarks or registered trademarks of FalconStor Software, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand and product names are, or may be, trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information contact:

Paul Shlackman
BondPR
Tel: +44 (0)1628 673 007
Email: paul@bondpr.com

Brendan Kinkade
Vice President of Marketing
Tel: +1 818-715-9111, ext. 1002
Email: brendan@nexsan.com

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