LeftHands Supports IBM

BOULDER, Colo. -- LeftHand Networks(R) hasexpanded its open iSCSI SAN portfolio with support for IBM System x3650servers. The combination of the IBM System x3650 server and LeftHandNetworks' SAN/iQ(R) software provides customers an easy-to-deploy SAN withunprecedented scalability, high availability, reliability and performance.LeftHand Networks' open iSCSI SANs are ideally suited for use with serverconsolidation and virtualization projects, Microsoft applicationenvironments, Lotus Notes and Domino applications and disaster recoverysolutions.

Leading the open iSCSI SAN market, LeftHand Networks is the only vendorto break free from the proprietary approach to storage and offer customersthe choice and flexibility to purchase enterprise-class x86 servers poweredby LeftHand's SAN/iQ platform. Customers can select from a variety ofindustry standard hardware platforms best suited to meet performance,capacity, reliability, and budget requirements while also protectingcurrent network storage investments.

"IT professionals can benefit from solutions that build upon andleverage prior investments in storage systems hardware and networkinfrastructure," said Natalya Yezhkova, research manager, compliancestorage, at IDC. "The combination of IBM's System x3650 servers withLeftHand's SAN/iQ software provides customers with a solution that iscompetitive on price, performance and scale by leveraging the latestmulticore processors. LeftHand's open iSCSI SAN solution supports a wideselection of platforms to meet the storage requirements of variousapplications."

LeftHand Networks Inc.