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Storage software supplier FalconStor has completely re-written its core product, hoping its new FreeStor product will revitalise its business. FalconStor's virtualising IPStor technology became widely used but began falling behind when the firm lost its guiding light CEO ReiJane Huawai in 2011. A subsequent Fed law case …

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  1. K
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    FreeStor will be available for purchase

    Now that's an oxymoron..

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    1. filipk
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      Re: FreeStor will be available for purchase

      From VTL backup to cloud storage virtualization, software defined, orchestration federalization and Gartnertization. There is a spot in the magic quadrant available behind vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA).

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Son of IPStor?

    From their Q4 presentation, it is more like an aging IPStor with a skin condition... red spots all over it, under which the same organs are getting older every year.

    http://falconstor.com/resources/files/1158/Q4_2014_Earnings_Call_Presentation.pdf

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    1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge
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      Re: Son of IPStor?

      From the lengthy briefing I got on the matter, that's not my impression at all. It looks like there was a great deal of R&D to go into this and that it is basically a new product.

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      1. ugh
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        Re: Son of IPStor?

        Comparing the old and the new GUI (from the limited view in the presentation), there don't seem to be anything new other than a reshuffling of the functions. It is a lot more confusion, whereas the old GUI was more logical and clear, albeit looks old fashioned and outdated. The color scheme for the new GUI is really aesthetically grotesque, though.

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        1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge
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          Re: Son of IPStor?

          "Your product is clearly just a rebranding with nothing new whatsoever because your color scheme is crap."

          Yep. Buying that logic completely.

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