Tech Data Partners With FalconStor Software To Expand Data Center Solutions Offering

CLEARWATER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD) today announced that it will distribute FalconStor Software’s complete line of data-protection storage solutions. Tech Data—through its Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) Division—is partnering with FalconStor to enhance its support of IT resellers influencing the storage solutions purchases made by businesses, government agencies and educational institutions nationwide.

“Through this partnership with Tech Data, we will provide resellers and solution providers proven technology that meets the backup and recovery needs of the new data center. In addition, Tech Data will play a key role in our efforts to enable VMware partners with integrated data protection solutions.”

“Demand for storage capacity continues to grow unabated,” said Senior Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Pete Peterson. “The challenge for resellers is to not only present their customers with more disks, tapes or storage arrays, but also to find ways to more smartly manage existing storage capacity, creating a higher return on that technology investment. Virtualization makes that possible. FalconStor storage, data protection, backup and recovery solutions are a strong complement to data centers using the latest server and storage virtualization technology.”

“The demand for more effective data protection solutions has never been greater, as IT organizations rethink their backup design and look for more effective ways to protect their physical and virtual environments,” said Wendy Petty, vice president of sales at FalconStor. “Through this partnership with Tech Data, we will provide resellers and solution providers proven technology that meets the backup and recovery needs of the new data center. In addition, Tech Data will play a key role in our efforts to enable VMware partners with integrated data protection solutions.”

FalconStor products are available through the AIS Division’s Software Solutions Group. This team includes dedicated sales, technical, marketing and business development specialists who support one of the channel’s broadest arrays of advanced virtualization and data center management software solutions. FalconStor products distributed by Tech Data include:

FalconStor^® Virtual Tape Library (VTL): Solves the backup challenges associated with existing tape environments and offers fast backup, data deduplication, enterprise-wide replication and tape integration in one solution without changes to existing tape backup applications or processes
FalconStor^® Continuous Data Protector (CDP): Delivers complete data protection and continuous data availability across both physical and virtual systems, eliminating backup windows and the need for mandatory restores to enable comprehensive business continuity
FalconStor^® Network Storage Server (NSS): Provides storage virtualization, provisioning and heterogeneous storage management to deliver fast and simple iSCSI or Fibre Channel storage
FalconStor^® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS): Provides high availability global deduplication, disk-to-disk data protection and replication for capacity optimization and bandwidth reduction

To learn more, call 800-237-8931 or visit www.techdata.com.

Comprehensive Data Center Solutions

Tech Data's AIS Division partners with dozens of industry leaders including Brocade, Cisco, HP, IBM and VMware to provide resellers with access to one of the channel’s broadest data center solutions offerings. Its team of experts holds an array of sales and technical certifications, and Tech Data has more certified virtualization professionals than any other distributor. Through its dedicated inside and field sales teams and new Solutions Groups, AIS offers a high-touch, consultative sales approach to help resellers profitably sell, deploy and manage the latest data centers technologies.

About Tech Data

Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ GS:TECD) is one of the world’s largest distributors of technology products from leading IT hardware and software producers. Tech Data serves more than 125,000 IT solution providers in over 100 countries. Every day, these resellers depend on Tech Data to cost-effectively support the technology needs of end users, including small and medium businesses (SMB), large enterprises and government agencies. Ranked 102nd on the FORTUNE 500(R), Tech Data generated $24.1 billion in net sales for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009. To learn more, visit www.techdata.com.

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