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LeftHand Networks Completes 2007 NSM Portfolio Expansion
with Next Generation NSM 2120 SAN Platform
LeftHand Networks
December 4, 2007
High-Density NSM 2120 Delivers Space-Efficient Capacity
in a Highly Available iSCSI SAN; Expanding Customer Choice
and Flexibility
Boulder, CO -- LeftHand Networks®, the leading provider of
highly available open iSCSI SANs, today announced the
availability of its NSM 2120, the latest addition to its
portfolio of next generation storage platforms. The NSM 2120
completes the company’s 2007 portfolio expansion of LeftHand-branded
products, delivering a high-density enterprise-class SAN and
providing enterprise and SME customers with significant
flexibility and scalability as they deploy SANs across
corporate data centers, regional and remote offices.
"The NSM 2120 is the latest example of LeftHand’s commitment
to provide the channel with a broad choice of storage
platforms and solutions,” said Tom Cahill, director of
product & partner management at CDW. “LeftHand’s complete
family of products provides highly available,
performance-driven iSCSI SANs that deliver excellent
customer value. We look forward to offering the NSM 2120
along with LeftHand’s full portfolio of physical and virtual
SAN solutions to our customers."
The NSM 2120 delivers a rich, fully-integrated feature set,
advanced data protection and centralized management, and
provides a best-in-class solution for optimizing performance
and manageability in virtualized server environments.
LeftHand Networks’ portfolio of next generation SAN platform
products includes the NSM 2060, NSM 2120 and NSM 4150, as
well as the NSM 160, all of which leverage the capabilities
of LeftHand’s award-winning SAN/iQ® clustered storage
software.
"LeftHand
Networks’ comprehensive portfolio of next generation SAN
platforms provides customers with significant choice and
flexibility, allowing them to easily select a storage system
that is ideally-suited to their business needs – all in an
affordable, easy-to-scale package,” said Larry Cormier, vice
president of marketing, LeftHand Networks. “LeftHand
Networks remains committed to the success of its channel
partners, and will continue to deliver leading-edge SAN
solutions that allow their customers to easily and
non-disruptively scale their solutions as business needs
dictate.”
With its high density and low power and cooling
requirements, the NSM 2120 is fully integrated and
simultaneously scales capacity and performance making it a
perfect fit for server virtualization projects. The NSM 2120
provides up to 9 TBs of storage capacity in a 2U form
factor, and is available in five configurations: 1.8 TB 15K
SAS, 3.6 TB 15K SAS, 3.0 TB SATA, 6.0 TB SATA, and 9.0 TB
SATA, each with 12 hot swappable disk drives. The NSM 2120
also includes centralized SAN/iQ management and a full
feature set including advanced thin provisioning 2.0;
distributed clustering; snapshots; synchronous multi-site
SAN replication; asynchronous remote copy replication;
volume migration and volume cloning.
Availability
The NSM 2120 is available Fourth Quarter, 2007 through
LeftHand Networks’ resellers and VARs, with prices starting
at $22,000.
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. LeftHand SANs are available in the U.S., Canada
and throughout Europe. For more information, contact
LeftHand at info@lefthandnetworks.com. |
