Cloverleaf, a global provider of intelligent storage network management solutions for enterprise-class environments, today detailed it has implemented 80 storage virtualization engines in the past two years. The iSN leverages storage virtualization for optimal utilization and easy management of any SAN or any NAS storage across any vendor. With installations in a wide variety of markets, including financial, retail, education, scientific, media, and government, Cloverleaf continues to demonstrate its ability to support corporate mandates for their data centers to ‘do more with less.’

“Data centers managers today face a number of serious and costly management headaches, and they are desperately in need of tools that can simplify their environment,” said Richard Bauer, president and CEO of Cloverleaf. “Our customers continuously comment to us that Cloverleaf has enabled them to be more flexible and cost-effective in expanding and managing their infrastructures – they no longer have to be locked into a single storage vendor due to the iSN’s ‘vendor agnostic’ position. Cloverleaf’s iSN helps customers expand their storage easily, without downtime, and without the need to over-buy their storage like they do with other vendors.”

With the ability to manage any and all data, regardless of storage type, vendor or platform through a ‘single pane of glass,’ Cloverleaf’s iSN has found great success addressing four key customer pain points including: Site-to-Site Disaster Recovery; Re-Purposing Retired Storage and Data Migration; Data Protection and Business Continuity; and Thin Provisioning. Incorporating significant features such as persistent and massive snapshotting, tiering storage according to application requirements, and optimizing capacity usage, the iSN delivers a unique low-cost storage management solution.

“There are many IT software/hardware solutions that offer compelling point solutions for data migration, business continuance, backup or replication services,” said Bauer. “But most tend to lock the enterprise into a specific vendor or technology pathway that limits customer choice in the future. Cloverleaf’s technology and vendor agnostic iSN solution revolutionizes the storage world by offering true heterogeneous storage management. Only Cloverleaf provides the right mix of advanced functionality and simplicity in an independent, flexible platform that is designed to address an organization’s storage management needs for today, and tomorrow. Ultimately, Cloverleaf’s iSN allows customers to think more about their immediate business needs while remaining open for new storage technologies to be added as time moves on.”