‘Data protection is business critical,’ was one of the messages that Suresh Nair, FalconStor’s general manager and vice president for APAC, reiterated during their Solutions Day in KL recently. The disk-based protection solutions provider which underwent massive restructuring last year, also acknowledges the current trends of explosive data growth, virtualisation and tighter budgets, that drive need for the solutions they offer.
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| Suresh Nair was recruited from EMC to spearhead FalconStor’s charge in the Asia Pacific region. |
Suresh said, “(With virtualisation) data can be located anywhere and there is a need to maximise infrastructure in a service-oriented manner… but, it is now also more crucial than ever that you can recover your data from wherever you want.”
The challenge arises because of all the legacy hardware and solutions that businesses still keep around in the hopes of finally being able to sweat them. FalconStor recognises this and the clutter that exists in the topology of a typical data centre with Suresh saying, “Organisations want to move away from managing elements (in a data centre) and towards management from a single point-of-view.”
To that end, FalconStor has come up with a suite of data services that Suresh said would help businesses enable the cloud. He describes these data services; storage virtualisation, continuous data protection and deduplication; as “…removing these elements from the data centre topology and moving hardware-specific data protection towards a high-performance protection pool.”
He also alluded to a managed business continuity and disaster recovery service, codenamed the Bluestone project, which FalconStor CEO, Jim McNiel had once described as service-oriented data protection, from a single pane of glass. In essence, Bluestone is a product roadmap for FalconStor, but because of all the smaller components that need to be in place, Suresh shared that it would take Bluestone at least three years (beginning this year) to fully flesh out.
