LeftHand iSCSI SAN Supports Dell, HP and IBM Servers
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on December 19, 2007 at 4:18 pmLeftHand
Networks 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.
The suggested
retail price of SAN/iQ for the PowerEdge 2950 is $9,995.
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