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FalconStor Enhances IBM Storage Ceph with Greater Application Connectivity, Advanced Data Protection, and Enterprise Data Mobility
FalconStor Enhances IBM Storage Ceph with Greater Application Connectivity, Advanced Data Protection, and Enterprise Data Mobility.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFalconStor Software today announces certification of both StorSafe and StorGuard with IBM Storage Ceph, accelerating customers’ “Journey to AI” through improved data access, migration, and availability. FalconStor’s flagship solutions, StorSafe and StorGuard, deliver a comprehensive suite of data and backup optimization, virtualization, and protection, from on-premises to hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. IBM Storage Ceph is a scale-out, software-defined unified storage solution designed to support data lakes for IBM watsonx.data and next-generation AI workloads. Together, these solutions provide enterprise application access, data migration, protection, and availability, enabling customers to harness their massive data stores to tackle previously unsolvable challenges using Generative AI.\n\n\nStorSafe is Now Certified with Storage Ceph\n\n\nIBM has certified FalconStor StorSafe with Storage Ceph, IBM’s on-premises AI data lake offering, ensuring compatibility and full support by IBM. StorSafe is the only IBM-certified, sold, and supported solution for backup optimization with IBM Power Virtual Server, available via the IBM Cloud Catalog. Now, with certification for IBM Storage Ceph, customers can leverage both for an enterprise-class backup solution.\n\n\nStorSafe integrates with any leading backup software on IBM Power (IBM i/AIX/Linux) or mixed heterogeneous operating systems, utilizing advanced compression and patented block-level deduplication to optimize backup and recovery operations while simplifying workload and data migrations. IBM Storage Ceph object storage is now supported as the tape archive export target for StorSafe, offering customers low-cost storage to archive historical backup data.\n\n\nStorGuard is Now Certified with Storage Ceph\n\n\nFalconStor has certified StorGuard with Storage Ceph, ensuring seamless integration and full support by FalconStor. StorGuard offers storage virtualization, business continuity, high availability, system failover, and data migration. Key capabilities brought to Storage Ceph by StorGuard include:\n\n\n\nFibre Channel and iSCSI support enabling enterprise application connection to Storage Ceph\n\n\n\nData mobility via migration from heterogeneous storage environments into Storage Ceph as well as into the cloud\n\n\n\nData protection across hybr...