LeftHand Networks Adds iSCSI Platform

LeftHand
Networks 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.

The NSM 2120 is available Fourth Quarter, 2007 through LeftHand Networks’ resellers and VARs, with prices starting at $22,000.

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