SAN System targets virtualized server environments.
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Intended for midsize businesses, SAS Starter SAN helps customers deploy their first virtualization projects by facilitating process of creating, accessing, and managing shared storage resources. System automatically balances data volumes across all disk drives, network connections, and processors. Able to scale to more than 80 network ports and 320 disk drives, SAS Starter SAN includes management tools that provide replication, thin provisioning, and snapshot capabilities.
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LeftHand Networks, an HP Company, Delivers Entry-level SAN for Virtualized Environments
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 11, 2009 - LeftHand Networks, an HP company, today announced an entry-level storage area network (SAN) solution that improves performance and reduces storage costs within virtualized server environments for midsize businesses.
The LeftHand SAS Starter SAN helps customers efficiently deploy their first virtualization projects by simplifying the process of creating, accessing and managing shared storage resources.
As customers deploy virtual server environments, they frequently encounter unforeseen
system performance bottlenecks. To further complicate matters, server virtualization
increases the number of required connections to a SAN. This increased system
complexity makes it more difficult and costly to troubleshoot when bottlenecks do occur.
The LeftHand SAS Starter SAN reduces costs and mitigates these performance issues by
automatically balancing data volumes across all disk drives, network connections and
processors.
The SAS Starter SAN includes management tools that provide replication, thin
provisioning and snapshot capabilities. These capabilities help ensure data availability even as the environment becomes more complex. In addition, customers can purchase only the capacity they need, easily increasing both the capacity and performance of their system without experiencing any disruption. The SAS Starter SAN can scale to more than 80 network ports and 320 disk drives to accommodate business growth.
"Customers are looking for cost-effective storage solutions that help them realize the
promised efficiencies of virtualized server environments," said Bill Chambers, vice
president, LeftHand Networks, an HP company. "The entry-level SAS Starter SAN gives
customers an affordable, high-performing option that allows them to start small and add
capacity as their needs grow."
LeftHand also introduced a higher capacity SATA Starter SAN that offers a 25 percent
reduction in the cost per gigabyte (GB) of disk drive capacity than the previous
generation.(1) The solution's storage capacity has increased 33 percent to 12 terabytes (TB) while maintaining its current list price. The SATA Starter SAN is ideal for customers who want to consolidate storage for Microsoft Windows® or Linux servers.
"Server virtualization environments require new levels of storage system flexibility,
performance and reliability," said Keith Groom, director of vendor marketing at
Softchoice, an HP reseller. "LeftHand's SAS Starter SAN provides our customers with a
cost-effective shared storage solution that offers these requisite capabilities, making it easier for customers to deploy virtualization and maximize their investments."
Pricing and availability
The SAS Starter SAN and the higher-capacity SATA Starter SAN are available
immediately through LeftHand Networks' resellers and value-added resellers in the United States as well as value-added distributors throughout Europe.
Pricing starts at $35,000 for the 4.8 TB SAS Starter SAN and $30,000 for the 12 TB
SATA Starter SAN.(2) More information on LeftHand Networks SAN solutions is available at www.lefthandnetworks.com.
About LeftHand Networks, an HP company
Founded in 1999, LeftHand Networks pioneered IP-based storage area networks (SANs). SANs built using LeftHand's SAN/iQ® software are uniquely able to distribute
and protect data across a cluster of 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/server consolidation, virtualized data centers, multi-site SANs and disaster recovery.
About HP
HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for
consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing,
software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is
available at http://www.hp.com/.
(1) The higher-capacity SATA Starter SAN offers a per-GB cost of $2.50, a 25 percent reduction from its previous per-GB cost of $3.33.
(2) Estimated U.S. list prices. Actual prices may vary.
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