Enterasys Replaces FC SAN With LeftHand Networks iSCSI SAN

LeftHand
Networks announced that Enterasys Networks, the Secure Networks Company,
has deployed LeftHand’s open iSCSI SAN solution with its SAN/iQ
clustered storage software on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 platform, and
improved its disaster recovery capabilities, increased its overall ease
of use and management and optimized its virtualized environment. With
the LeftHand solution, Enterasys drove significant savings in SAN
administration, hardware and support while accelerating response times
to meet its demanding business needs.

“With the ability to easily self-provision new storage and configure
it virtually real-time, the responsiveness to our business demands has
increased dramatically,” said Dan Petlon, vice president System Quality
and IT at Enterasys Networks. “The LeftHand SAN solution has exceeded
our expectations, providing a flexible, cost-effective and easy to
manage enterprise-class SAN that supports and helps to optimize our
virtualized data center environment – all on a Dell hardware platform
that we know and trust.”

Enterasys’ business is built on delivering secure network solutions
that ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability and
performance of IT services. With LeftHand’s highly available 90
terabyte iSCSI SAN solution, Enterasys was able to strengthen its
disaster recovery system and provide an added level of protection for
its users. Using LeftHand’s powerful replication capabilities and a
storage node at a remote site 300 miles away, Enterasys was able to
deploy a fast and reliable disaster recovery solution with
significantly increased data recovery times. In addition, IT
responsiveness increased as a result of the ease and simplicity of
provisioning and configuring added capacity. The company was able to
maximize its system efficiency and save money by deploying a mix of SAS
and SATA disk drives within its LeftHand SAN, matching each application
with its precise performance requirements.  

“We needed a more nimble IT environment that would enable us to
quickly adapt and align with our business – our existing Fibre Channel
SAN simply couldn’t get us there,” added Petlon. “We recognized after
significant research and testing that the most flexible and adaptive
technologies were iSCSI-based. With a data center virtualization
architecture based on Dell server platforms, this solution allowed us
to optimize our virtualized data center environment and leverage our
existing Dell investments to realize significant economies of scale.”

LeftHand Networks’ award-winning SAN/iQ clustered storage software
supports the Dell PowerEdge 2950, providing maximum platform choice and
flexibility for customers’ SAN deployments. When combined with the Dell
PowerEdge 2950 server, SAN/iQ converts the server into an iSCSI storage
node that delivers enterprise-class SAN capabilities when clustered,
providing customers an easy-to-deploy, highly available SAN complete
with a rich feature set, advanced data protection and centralized
management. 

“LeftHand is committed to providing customers with maximum platform
choice and flexibility for their SAN deployments. With our
LeftHand-branded NSM storage products, Virtual SAN Appliances and our
open iSCSI SAN portfolio that supports Dell, HP and IBM hardware,
LeftHand delivers highly available enterprise-class iSCSI SAN solutions
that help optimize almost any environment,” said Larry Cormier, vice
president of Marketing, LeftHand Networks. “Enterasys’ deployment of a
90 terabyte LeftHand iSCSI SAN on the Dell 2950 platform is another
proof point that, by allowing customers’ business needs to properly
drive their storage hardware decisions, LeftHand Networks continues to
make storage networking easier than ever.”

LeftHand Networks

Enterasys