LeftHand Networks

LeftHand Networks Open iSCSI SAN Solutions

LeftHand Networks’ open iSCSI SANs are based on open industry standard protocols and enterprise-class x86 storage servers and powered by SAN/iQ, the industry's first open storage software platform. Open iSCSI SANs provide you with interoperability, cost-effectiveness, and performance in your data centers. LeftHand gives you the choice and flexibility to purchase the hardware platform that best fits your performance, capacity, and budget requirements.

SAN/iQ software transforms enterprise class x86 servers into storage servers to create a SAN. Each storage server contains processing power, RAM, cache, disk drives, and bandwidth. By breaking your storage system in to small, fully functional building blocks, you have the flexibility to redeploy your assets and reconfigure your storage system with no downtime. SAN/iQ aggregates all of these resources into a single system, helping you to avoid traditional storage bottlenecks such as a limited number of network ports, controller bandwidth, and cache size as you add grow your SAN.

Open iSCSI SANs eliminate being “locked in” to a single proprietary box or vendor. It leverages billions of industry R&D dollars, maximizes choice, and investment protection for customers. Once storage administrators are trained on LeftHand SAN/i®, no re-training is required to deploy SAN solutions from a variety of vendors that are powered by SAN/i.

A breadth of platforms supported by SAN/iQ – including the IBM System x3650, HP ProLiant DL320s, and the LeftHand SANs NSM 4150, NSM 2120, and NSM2060 – gives you the ability to match availability and performance within your application and SAN environments using tiered storage. Choose the hardware platforms and drive types (SCSI, SATA, and SAS) that best suit your performance requirements and growth patterns, all managed by LeftHand's SAN/iQ storage software platform. Select the number of storage modules required to provide the capacity you need today, then scale your SAN just-in-time - without downtime. Purchase only what you need today and don't get locked into a large one time capital expenditure.