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LeftHand Networks Expands Open iSCSI SAN Portfolio; SAN/iQ
Now Support World's Top Three Server Vendors— Dell,
Hewlett-Packard and IBM
LeftHand Networks
December 18, 2007
Clustered Storage Software, SAN/iQ, to be Field
Integrated into Dell PowerEdge 2950 and Available
Exclusively through LeftHand Networks Channel Partners
Boulder, CO -- LeftHand Networks®, the leading provider of
highly available open iSCSI SANs, today announced that it
has expanded its open iSCSI SAN portfolio with support for
the Dell PowerEdge 2950. With this addition, LeftHand
Networks’ SAN/iQ® clustered storage software supports each
of the major server vendors: Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
The open iSCSI portfolio complements the recently announced
LeftHand-branded NSM storage products as well as the
LeftHand Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA), and provides the
company’s channel partners with maximum platform choice and
flexibility for their customers’ SAN deployments.
According to IDC, in the first quarter of 2007,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell accounted for more than 70
percent of global x86 server sales. Combining LeftHand
Networks’ SAN/iQ software with an x86 server converts that
server into an iSCSI storage node that delivers
enterprise-class SAN capabilities when clustered.
“We view LeftHand Networks’ SAN/iQ software support of the
three market-leading server vendors as a huge plus,
providing additional choice and flexibility for our
customers,” said Bill Stith, managing director, global
storage services at Incentra Solutions. “The addition of the
Dell PowerEdge 2950 expands our market opportunity into new
accounts, increases demand for integration services and
provides an ideal SAN solution for our customers who prefer
Dell servers or who have standardized on the Dell server
platform. Incentra Solutions looks forward to offering
LeftHand’s full suite of products from its HP, IBM and Dell
open-platform SAN solutions to its refreshed NSM product
portfolio and virtual SAN solutions.”
The combination of the Dell PowerEdge 2950 server and
LeftHand Networks’ award-winning storage management software
provides customers an easy-to-deploy, highly available SAN
complete with SAN/iQ’s rich feature set, advanced data
protection and centralized management. Customers purchase
SAN/iQ exclusively through LeftHand channel partners and
acquire the PowerEdge 2950 from Dell. A LeftHand channel
partner then integrates SAN/iQ onto the PowerEdge 2950 at
the customer site, providing a robust, value-driven
solution.
“As we standardize our data center virtualization
architecture on Dell server platforms, Enterasys is pleased
that LeftHand Networks has expanded its SAN/iQ software
support to include the Dell PowerEdge 2950,” said Dan Petlon,
vice president system quality and IT at Enterasys. “We
recently deployed a highly available 90 Terabyte iSCSI SAN
using the combined SAN/iQ and Dell PowerEdge servers
connected via cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet. This allows
us to leverage our existing Dell investments and realize
significant economies of scale while reducing storage cost
and complexity.”
The combined Dell PowerEdge 2950 with SAN/iQ software comes
in three configurations; 1.8 TB 15K SAS, 3.0 TB SATA, and
4.5 TB SATA, each with 6 hot swappable disk drives;
centralized SAN/iQ management and a full feature set that
includes advanced thin provisioning 2.0; snapshots;
distributed clustering; synchronous multi-site SAN
replication; asynchronous remote copy replication; volume
migration and volume cloning.
“We are pleased to extend SAN/iQ support to the Dell
PowerEdge 2950. Supporting the three market-leading server
vendors as part of our ‘open-iSCSI’ initiative enables our
channel partners to satisfy any hardware brand preference
that a customer may have,” said Larry Cormier, vice
president of marketing, LeftHand Networks. “Combined with
our recently announced LeftHand-branded NSMs and the
LeftHand Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA), we now offer the most
comprehensive portfolio of IP-based shared storage solutions
in the industry. And, by allowing a customer’s business
needs to properly drive their storage hardware decisions,
LeftHand Networks continues to make storage networking
easier than ever.”
Availability
SAN/iQ software is currently available as a field
integration offering through LeftHand Networks’ resellers
and VARs in the United States and Canada, and value added
distributors throughout Europe. The suggested retail price
of SAN/iQ for the PowerEdge 2950 is $9,995.
About LeftHand Networks
LeftHand Networks pioneered IP-based storage area networks
(SAN) in 2001. SANs built using LeftHand’s SAN/iQ® software
are uniquely able to distribute and protect data across a
cluster of industry-standard storage servers. The company’s
patented architecture increases data availability, allows
users to start small and grow the SAN seamlessly, and
simplifies management. The LeftHand SAN is ideal for storage
and server consolidation, multi-site SANs, and disaster
recovery. For more information, contact LeftHand at
info@lefthandnetworks.com. |
