Talon File Sharing Solution With Subscription Model

Talon Storage Solutions (File Acceleration and Sharing Technology, Inc.) announced the TalonFAST subscription delivery model.

Solutions are available as an annual software subscription allowing companies to recognize the purchase as an operating expense. It’s a Windows Server (x64) file optimization product, allowing for branch office storage consolidation, multi site collaboration, and mobile workforce productivity.

Today’s IT services must be efficient, responsive to customer needs and delivered without degrading user experience. The success of any branch office IT infrastructure project depends on the competitiveness and performance of vendors’ services. The ability to provide a rapid ROI with a low TCO is imperative in IT environments.

Cloud-distribution’s director product development, Adam Davison, explained: “The increasing need to consolidate remote data back into an enterprise’s core data center is a trend driving companies to leverage optimization and acceleration capabilities as a service, rather than more traditional hardware deployments. Talon provides this option with its file and object optimization solution, and in a compelling way – via subscription. This unique subscription model resonates with today’s enterprises, simplifying Microsoft integration as well as the deployment process of these capabilities, while reducing TCO.”

The solutions provide branch offices with scalable application performance along with business collaboration across distributed workforce environments. The solution addresses Microsoft file server environments by enabling full-scale branch office consolidation and eliminating performance bottlenecks with large files. It’s delivered in physical and virtual appliances and embraces Windows Server technologies such as domain-based DFS for scalability.

“As enterprises have become dependent on the WAN, branch office storage optimization has become a necessity. At Talon, we recognize this and in response we have made our solution cost-competitive with our unique licensing model,” said Andrew Mullen, SVP, sales and marketing, Talon. “Not only are we staying ahead of competitive alternatives with our technology, we are also pushing the development of our RemoteFAST product forward to achieve the price points and scalability required by our customers. Talon’s ‘branch office in a box’ solutions provide a compelling solution to managing business productivity in key IT initiatives such as mobile workforce, virtualization of the edge and server consolidation without performance comprises.”

Available, the solutions ranges in price from MobileFAST at $72/year to RemoteFAST at $2,500 annually for branch office environments with up to 10 users, to $6,500 annually for enterprise branches with up to 500 users.