FalconStor Software, Inc. announced the expansion of its go-to-market relationship with Hitachi Vantara, combining Hitachi's flash storage arrays with best-in-class replication, data migration, snapshot, and disaster recovery software. Under the terms of the agreement, Hitachi Vantara will resell FalconStor StorGuard with its market-leading flash arrays to provide optimal flash performance and protection for mission-critical applications and data. Available immediately, the joint, validated solution combines Hitachi's VSP storage systems, with FalconStor's StorGuard continuous data protection and replication software to provide enterprises and managed services providers the ability to customize a deployment to meet specific protection objectives, including: Cloud Data Protection: replicating data to the cloud to serve as a secondary protection tier for mission-critical data; Continuous Data Protection: continuous journaling of all writes to the VSP storage system to provide recovery points with per-second granularity for critical apps; Continuous Availability Within a Metro Region: synchronous replication between sites within a metro region provides protection against a sitewide disaster; No-Compromise Snapshot Performance: StorGuard runs on industry-standard servers and offloads the VSP's CPU to deliver best-in-class I/O and scalability for the higher throughput; Non-Disruptive Data Migration: enabling easy migration to Hitachi arrays to facilitate new deployments.

The solution is available through Hitachi Vantara to end users and approved channel partners and is supported by Hitachi and FalconStor worldwide.