FalconStor Certified By CMP's VARBusiness As A Gold 5-Star Overall Winner In The 2008 Partner Program Guide

FalconStor Software, the provider of TOTALLY Open network storage solutions, recently announced that it has been recognized by CMP Channel's VARBusiness as one of North America's top information-technology (IT) vendors for its Solution Provider Partner Program.

FalconStor was certified as a Gold 5-Star Overall Winner in VARBusiness' 2008 Partner Program Guide (PPG), a guide that acknowledges the commitment and strength of a vendor's partner programs for its channel resellers, IT integrators, and technology consultants. In addition, FalconStor achieved Silver 5-star status for the sales support, marketing support, partner profitability, channel operations, and partner recruitment elements of its program.

FalconStor's award-winning solutions for storage virtualization, backup optimization, continuous data protection, and disaster recovery are offered through major OEMs, system integrators, and resellers, and are deployed worldwide by governments, educational institutions, and Fortune 1000 enterprises across industries that include aerospace, energy production, financial services, healthcare, law, manufacturing and telecommunications. The FalconStor Solution Provider Partner Program is designed to help valued reseller partners achieve leadership roles in the storage networking infrastructure market, thereby expanding existing business, increasing revenue opportunities and maximizing profitability.

Of the hundreds of vendor program entries reviewed this year, FalconStor's was one of only ten Gold 5-Star Overall Winners chosen in this 14th annual VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide survey.

"The quality of a vendor's partner program reflects the true commitment they have to the thriving Solution Provider Channel, and this year's 5-Star Partner Programs Guide winners are the cream of the crop of channel-friendly vendors," said Robert C. DeMarzo, vice president and editorial director, CMP Channel.

"VARBusiness is a valued media partner to FalconStor, and we are honored to receive this recognition," said Wendy Petty, FalconStor vice president for North American Sales. "As a channel-only company from its inception, FalconStor has always taken its mission to help partners to meet business objectives seriously with a program that provides training, sales tools, marketing materials, qualified leads, and high margins. This approach has proven to be a winning strategy for everyone involved."

The guide appears in the March issue of VARBusiness and can be found online at www.channelweb.com.

About VARBusiness
For the past 20 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the commercial and public sector (or government) Solution Provider community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness offerings lead vendors and distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic Solution Providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design.

About CMP Channel
CMP Channel is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, XChange Events and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors.

About CMP
CMP is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developers Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 B. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news.

About FalconStor Software, Inc.
FalconStor Software, Inc., #5 in Forbes 2008 list of America's Fastest-Growing Technology Companies, is the market leader in disk-based data protection. We deliver proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. Our TOTALLY Open technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor virtualization platform, include the industry leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with Single Instance Repository (SIR) for de-duplication, Continuous Data Protector (CDP), Storage Virtualization, and Replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection. Our products are available from major OEMs and solution providers including IBM, EMC, SUN, Acer, Brocade, H3C, MPC, and Pillar Data Systems 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 regions including Paris, Tokyo and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.falconstor.com