FalconStor Software appointed Farid Yavari as vice president of technology and Surajit Sengupta as senior product manager. Most recently, Yavari worked as a senior architect for eBay and PayPal Inc. in San Jose, Calif., as well as a senior IT architect for Hewlett Packard. Yavari was also an IT Consultant for Maya Systems, in San Carlos, Calif., and the IT director for Webvan.com in Foster City, Calif.
Prior to joining FalconStor, Sengupta was the senior product manager at EMC, Santa Clara, Calif., and the data optimization product and program manager at Dell in San Jose, Calif.
FalconStor Software, Inc. is a provider of data protection software with a focus on recovery and backup operations for the hybrid cloud world. The Company enables enterprise customers and managed service providers to secure, migrate, and protect their data while reducing data storage. Its products are offered through and supported by a worldwide network of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), managed service providers (MSPs), systems integrators, and resellers. Its products are StorSafe, Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Continuous Data Protector (CDP), Network Storage Server (NSS) and StorSight. The Companyâs supporting technologies include RecoverTrac (RecoverTrac) Disaster Recovery Technology and MicroScan (MicroScan) Technology. FalconStor and FalconStor Software are trademarks of the Company in the United States and other countries. Its geographical areas include the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and other.