Lefthand Networks Named Cool Vendor by Leading Analyst Firm

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, April 21 2008

Gartner's 2008 Cool Vendors in Storage Report Released This Month

BOULDER, Colo., April 21, 2008 - LeftHand Networks®, the leading provider of highly available iSCSI SANs, today announced it has been included in the 2008 Cool Vendors in Storage report by Gartner, Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Released on April 1, the Gartner report highlights vendors that are innovative, impactful and intriguing.

"We are honored to be included in this list of Cool Vendors by Gartner," said Larry Cormier, vice president of Marketing, LeftHand Networks. "Since day one, LeftHand's vision was to provide innovative technology solutions that would change the rules of networked storage and allow our channel partners to provide integrated, leading-edge iSCSI solutions to companies of every size. With feature-rich, affordable iSCSI SANs that leverage standard x86 platforms, optimize virtualized environments and provide array capabilities once reserved for only the largest enterprise organizations, we are successfully delivering on this vision."

LeftHand Network's channel strategy and its strong partner relationships allow resellers to provide easy-to-use, integrated iSCSI SAN solutions to end-users world-wide. LeftHand Networks' simple, scalable, easy-to-manage data storage solutions allow customers to deploy full-featured iSCSI SANs that optimize virtualized environments and deliver enterprise-class capabilities. Built-in features include Online Volume Migration, Advanced Thin Provisioning, Network RAID Synchronous Replication, Remote Copy Asynchronous Replication, Snapshot, proactive Self-Healing Storage and Centralized Management.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does note constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't before; Impactful, have, or will have business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About LeftHand Networks

LeftHand Networks® pioneered IP-based storage area networks (SAN) in 2001. SANs built using LeftHand's SAN/iQ® 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 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .