LeftHand Networks(R), 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(R) 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.
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.
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is
reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical
representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It
depicts Gartner´s analysis of how certain vendors measure against
criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not
endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant,
and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors
placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended
solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to
action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with
respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability
or fitness for a particular purpose.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays, 2H07
Report, by Stanley Zaffos, Roger W. Cox and Pushan Rinnen
