LeftHand Networks
®, the leading provider of highly available iSCSI SANs, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the
‘Visionary
’ quadrant of the
2007 Magic Quadrant for Mid-Range Disk Arrays. LeftHand addresses the market with its unique ability to create virtual SANs, the linear performance scalability of its NSM disk storage systems and the enterprise-class features of its SAN/iQ
® clustered storage software.
LeftHand Networks is an established SAN storage vendor that sells branded NSM iSCSI disk storage systems and packages its SAN/iQ software with IBM, HP and Dell industry-standard servers to build physical iSCSI SANs. As an alternative to physical SANs, LeftHand Networks' new Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) allows customers to transform internal storage in VMware ESX servers into a virtual SAN enabling VMware features like VMotion, Virtual Machine High Availability, and Distributed Resource Scheduler without external shared storage. LeftHand’s VSA is the first virtual SAN to be certified on the VMware HCL, in addition to being the only virtual SAN that allows seamless failover and failback with no manual intervention.
“We are excited that the industry experts at Gartner have placed LeftHand Networks in the Visionary section of the Magic Quadrant Report,” said Larry Cormier, vice president of Marketing, LeftHand Networks. “We’ve always been on the leading edge of IP storage and we are continuing to aggressively drive that innovation to the next level. We believe this report from Gartner exemplifies the product value and trust customers place on LeftHand Networks for securing and optimizing their storage environments."
For companies of every size, LeftHand Networks offers a simple, scalable, easy-to-manage data storage solution. LeftHand Networks’ innovative approach to storage allows customers to deploy full-featured iSCSI SANs that optimize virtualized environments and deliver enterprise-class capabilities, including Online Volume Migration, Advanced Thin Provisioning, Network RAID Synchronous Replication, Remote Copy Asynchronous Replication, Snapshot, proactive Self-Healing Storage and Centralized Management.
Founded in 1999, LeftHand Networks has more than 2,500 customers and 9,000 systems installed worldwide.