Enterasys Replaces Fibre Channel SAN with LeftHand Networks iSCSI SAN on the Dell 2950 Platform

LeftHand Networks(R), the leading provider of highly available
open iSCSI SANs, today announced that Enterasys Networks, the Secure
Networks Company(TM), has deployed LeftHand´s open iSCSI SAN solution
with its SAN/iQ(R) 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."

About LeftHand Networks

LeftHand Networks pioneered IP-based storage area networks (SAN)
in 2001. SANs built using LeftHand´s SAN/iQ(R) software are uniquely
able to distribute and protect data across a cluster of
industry-standard storage servers. The company´s patented architecture
increases data availability, allows users to start small and grow the
SAN seamlessly, and simplifies management. The LeftHand SAN is ideal
for storage and server consolidation, multi-site SANs, and disaster
recovery. LeftHand SANs are available in the U.S., Canada and
throughout Europe. For more information, contact LeftHand at
info@lefthandnetworks.com.

About Enterasys

Enterasys is owned by a private investor group led by The Gores
Group, LLC and Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC. Enterasys delivers
Secure Networks(TM) that ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and
availability of IT services and the business users that rely on them
-- without sacrificing performance. Thousands of enterprises,
government agencies and educational institutions in more than 70
countries worldwide rely on our convergence, connectivity and
compliance solutions to deliver business-oriented, policy-based
visibility and control of individual user and application priority and
security. The company´s culture is centered on the principle, "There
is nothing more important than our customers." Enterasys´
standards-based, open-architecture approach to network security offers
a long technology lifecycle and significant operational and business
benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership. Information about
Enterasys´ award winning, policy-enabled switches, routers, wireless
products, security software and services is available at
www.enterasys.com.