LG CNS Rolls Out First Korea’s Enterprise DRaaS Cloud Initiative

FalconStor Software Inc. announced that IT service provider LG CNS Co., Ltd. has deployed FreeStor to help complete the conversion of its DR offerings to a cloud-based model.

LG Gasan data center

This will help its customers overcome the high-cost structure and management required of their DR storage infrastructures.

For more than 20 years, LG CNS has delivered IT solutions and managed services to thousands of customers across the public, financial, manufacturing and telecommunications industries, and has become one of the largest IT service providers in Korea.

LG CNS currently operates the Incheon data center, the Sangam IT data center and the Gasan data center in Korea, as well as data centers at three global hub locations (US, Europe, and China), managing more than 30PB of data. A primary initiative for the company was to convert from traditional storage infrastructures to a software- and services-based infrastructure to deliver cloud-based storage services to its customers. LG CNS chose FreeStor to help make that transition, to lower costs and deliver new service revenue streams, such as DR-as-a-Service.

DR has always been one of the pain points for many enterprises in Korea. As businesses increasingly rely on their IT infrastructure, the demand for BC has become more stringent. All industries, especially financial and public sectors, are keen to implement a DR practice to protect their IT infrastructures from threats, including natural disasters, system failures, malicious attacks and human error. Many enterprises are realizing that it’s very expensive to acquire third-party tools and that they are too complicated to operate efficiently. To offset these challenges, LG CNS will offer a DRaaS cloud platform based on FreeStor. The service will mirror customers’ critical data to LG’s cloud data centers. This is the first DRaaS cloud offering in Korea that will meet enterprise reliability and service level requirements, enabling customers to benefit by decreasing hardware and software purchases, maintenance costs and complexity, all while improving BC, flexibility and scalability.

“There are many data management solutions to choose from today, but I think FreeStor is one of the best because it supports heterogeneous storage environments,” said: Gaehoon Chang, senior manager, LG CNS. “FreeStor features give our clients an enterprise, but very affordable, DR solution that reduces the CAPEX to zero and the OPEX by at least 70% when compared to an on-premise approach. It is really helpful to our growing business to have options like FreeStor’s all-inclusive subscription model, which will provide significant added value to LG CNS’ cloud business.“

FreeStor’s horizontal architecture unlocks storage opportunities, allowing IT managers, MSPs and CSPs to maximize efficiencies and lower costs while taking advantage of the public cloud, hybrid cloud, flash storage and software-defined storage. It delivers access and unified data services across entire storage infrastructures without having to invest in new technology, and extends the useful life of existing platforms. Always-on availability and continuity keep businesses running while enabling them to move, synchronize and protect data across virtual and physical storage platforms.

“Companies are increasingly looking to modernize their data center infrastructures to support emerging business initiatives, as well as to gain the benefits that these newer approaches provide,” said Gary Quinn, president, and CEO, FalconStor. “LG CNS wanted to improve their cloud-based services to attract additional customers while also avoiding the high costs of building, managing and maintaining traditional storage infrastructures. We are pleased that FreeStor allows them to gain greater efficiencies, as well as reduced costs, helping them create new revenue streams by delivering data services from a heterogeneous storage pool.“