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FalconStor Creates Cloud Clean Room To Prove Backup Recoveries Work

July 13, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is a bit sad to say this, but a lot of IBM i shops are still relying on tapes to backup their system software as well as their application software and the databases that drive them. There is nothing wrong with tape, and it makes sense to do offsite backups to tape and park them in Iron Mountain or some other facility. But the problem is that recovering from tape is a nightmare and no one knows if the recovery is going to work until the bad day when something goes wrong – through human error or hacking or …
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FalconStor Doubles Down On IBM Power With Habanero Offsite Data Protection

January 19, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

One of the secrets to the success and longevity of the OS/400 and IBM i platform is integration for the sake of simplicity. That may be two closely interrelated secrets, now that we think about it, but the important thing is that for any product or service to take off among the IBM i faithful, it has to integrate well with the platform and it has to mask complexity even when an underlying technology might be quite hairy.

With the rise of many clouds and hosters based on Power Systems machinery and the desire to get offsite data protection to …
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Like Tupperware, Think About Storage When You Move To The Cloud

October 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It would be hard to find a company that knows more about storage than Tupperware Brands, which has a globe-spanning $1.6 billion business that designs and manufactures myriad containers to store food and beverages and has famously sold them through Tupperware parties for the past 75 years.

For the past several decades, Tupperware operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa have run their manufacturing and back-office operations on IBM’s AS/400 (now known as Power) systems and their progeny, just like countless other manufacturers and distributors have done around the world. The choice of the AS/400 was driven by a …
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Big Blue Taps FalconStor To Move Data To PowerVS Cloud And Protect It

August 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When IBM i shops want to move some or all of their applications to the cloud, they have a lot of options. But there is still only one cloud that is designed and run by the same company that actually makes the Power Systems server and the IBM i operating system and database platform. And that, of course, is the Power Systems Virtual Server, colloquially known as PowerVS these days.

Over the longest of hauls, we expect that a fair number of IBM i shops will use the cloud in some capacity, and some will move their infrastructure entirely to …
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Kill Three Cloud Scenario Birds With One StorSafe Stone

June 1, 2022 Larry Bolhuis

It is a rare event when you can kill two birds with one stone. But thanks to a new partnership between IBM and FalconStor Software, you may have the opportunity to take down three with one stone. And it’s an opportunity I know well since I collaborated with the FalconStor and IBM teams to bring it forward.

Last month, IBM and FalconStor announced a strategic partnership to make the IBM i platform a better player in the hybrid cloud world that I believe will increasingly be a reality for IBM i users who rely on the platform to support their …
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Former Power Systems GM Joins FalconStor For IBM i Push

February 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Virtual tape library software provider FalconStor, which has been in the market for more than two decades, has tapped a former manager of IBM’s Power Systems division – namely Doug Balog, who ran Power Systems from 2013 through 2017 – as a strategic advisor as it begins a more aggressive push into the IBM i market.

Balog is a familiar to long-time readers of The Four Hundred, of course. He ran System x server development at IBM from June 2004 through December 2009, significantly the BladeCenter converged blade server platform, then did a few years running IBM’s storage business, …
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FalconStor Offers ProtecTIER Migration Deal to IBM i Shops

October 28, 2020 Alex Woodie

FalconStor Software is ramping up a new program to help IBM i shops migrate away from their IBM ProtecTIER virtual tape library (VTL) devices, which IBM has killed. The migration program essentially provides an extra 12 months of support for ProtecTIER devices for $999 per month, giving IBM i shops more time to make the switch to FalconStor’s own StorSafe offering.

On February 13, 2018, IBM announced a statement of direction to cease support for various ProtecTIER hardware devices and the software that runs on them. IBM’s plan called for it to stop selling the devices in in June 2018, …
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FalconStor Creates Cloud Clean Room To Prove Backup Recoveries Work

FalconStor Doubles Down On IBM Power With Habanero Offsite Data Protection

Like Tupperware, Think About Storage When You Move To The Cloud

Big Blue Taps FalconStor To Move Data To PowerVS Cloud And Protect It

Kill Three Cloud Scenario Birds With One StorSafe Stone

Former Power Systems GM Joins FalconStor For IBM i Push

FalconStor Offers ProtecTIER Migration Deal to IBM i Shops

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