[February 08, 2011]

Leading Analyst Firm Positions FalconStor as a Visionary within the Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery Magic Quadrant

FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner (News - Alert), Inc., in the Visionaries quadrant of the Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery Magic Quadrant.¹

"Gartner and others agree that traditional backup is broken due to exponential data growth, server virtualization and round-the-clock demands on mission-critical applications² - and it is in FalconStor's (News - Alert) DNA to address this problem," said Jim McNiel, president and CEO of FalconStor Software. "We consider our positioning in the Visionary quadrant by Gartner confirmation of our mission to redefine data protection by matching the way IT directors view their data center as a collection of services. We have the technology and expertise to build the industry's first service-oriented data protection solution for primary data centers and the cloud, which we plan to deliver this year."

FalconStor has been helping customers deploy disk-based data protection for years with its market-leading FalconStor^® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution, which migrates backup data from unwieldy tape repositories to more accessible disk arrays, and the FalconStor^® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solution, which replaces conventional backup with disk-based snapshots, remote replication and, most recently, fully automated disaster recovery (DR).

With the availability of FalconStor's new RecoverTrac™ tool, the first DR automation solution to bring service-oriented recovery to both physical and virtual server infrastructures, FalconStor CDP is now another step closer to delivering on the promise of service-riented data protection (see related release, "FalconStor Announces DR Automation for Physical and Virtual Environments," dated February 8, 2011).

To view the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery, visit: http://www.falconstor.com/gartner-backup-recovery-magic-quadrant.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About FalconStor Software

FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market leader in disk-based data protection. FalconStor delivers proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity and simplicity. The Company's TOTALLY Open™ technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor^® platform, include the industry leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector (CDP), File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), and Network Storage Server (NSS), each enabled with WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection, and the HyperFS^® file system. FalconStor products are available as OEM or branded solutions from industry leaders, including Acer, Data Direct Networks, Dynamic Solutions International, EMC (News - Alert), Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, Pillar Data Systems, SGI, SeaChange and Spectra Logic and are deployed by thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., 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).

FalconStor, FalconStor Software, HyperFS, and IPStor are registered trademarks and TOTALLY Open and RecoverTrac are trademarks of FalconStor Software, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other company and product names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

Links to websites or pages controlled by parties other than FalconStor are provided for the reader's convenience and information only. FalconStor does not incorporate into this release the information found at those links nor does FalconStor represent or warrant that any information found at those links is complete or accurate. Use of information obtained by following these links is at the reader's own risk.

¹ Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery" by Dave Russell, Sheila Childs, and Alan Dayley, January 2011.

² Gartner "Best Practices for Addressing the Broken State of Backup" by Dave Russell, August 2010.

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