FalconStor Software, Inc. on January 15, 2026 announced the launch of FalconStor Habanero, a globally available software-as-a-service offering designed to simplify secure offsite data protection for IBM Power customers. Habanero addresses a critical challenge facing the majority of IBM Power users: organizations that continue to run mission-critical workloads on-premises but require secure, compliant, and resilient offsite copies of their data. By integrating directly with existing IBM Power workloads, backup applications, and established operational processes, Habanero enables customers to establish enterprise-grade offsite protection without deploying new infrastructure or changing how backups are run.
Delivered as a fully managed service, Habanero provides secure offsite retention, disaster recovery copies, and long-term archives with simple, predictable pricing aligned to object-storage economics. FalconStor supplies and operates all underlying infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud, allowing customers to consume offsite data protection as a service while avoiding operational complexity. Habanero is built on FalconStor?s market-proven, patented data protection technology and leverages leading IBM technologies, including IBM Power Virtual Server and IBM Cloud Object Storage, to deliver globally available, secure offsite retention with hybrid recovery.
The service provides immutable protection, accelerated data movement, flexible restore options, and policy-driven retention, with support for sovereign storage requirements. Habanero is available through the IBM Cloud Catalog and is designed for partner-led delivery, enabling IBM Business Partners to offer customers a complete offsite data protection service without deploying or operating infrastructure, while benefiting from recurring revenue opportunities and existing IBM channel incentives. By addressing the large on-premises IBM Power installed base, Habanero expands the IBM ecosystem with a modern, cloud-enabled service that extends data protection capabilities without requiring customers to change where or how their workloads run.
Habanero extends FalconStor?s IBM Power portfolio with a consumption-based SaaS offering that complements the company?s enterprise data protection platforms. By combining FalconStor?s patented technology foundation with IBM Cloud services, Habanero strengthens FalconStor?s recurring revenue profile and reinforces its long-term alignment with IBM?s hybrid cloud and Power Systems strategy. Availability: FalconStor Habanero is now generally available worldwide through the IBM Cloud Catalog.
