LeftHand Networks® delivers physical and virtual SANs that are easy to grow, easy to manage and designed to perform optimally in today’s global data centers. Founded in 1999, LeftHand Networks pioneered iSCSI SAN technology. Our scalable SAN solutions deliver innovative storage capabilities to businesses of every size and are ideal for storage and server consolidation, multi-site SANs and disaster recovery.
Products
LeftHand SANs are simple to use, dynamic, flexible, and supremely scalable. Additional performance and capacity can be added to the system while it is online, with no disruption to the SAN. This new approach to storage eliminates the performance and capacity limitations of traditional storage systems, reduces up-front system costs and simplifies storage management.
Award-winning SAN/iQ® storage software makes LeftHand SANs and Virtual SAN Appliances (VSA™). the most cost-effective storage networks in the industry. SAN/iQ software clusters together multiple storage nodes into a single pool of shared storage that delivers always-on data availability, agility and simplified management.
LeftHand SANs provide:
- High Availability. LeftHand’s patented modular architecture distributes and protects customer data against system and site failures.
- Scalable Performance. LeftHand SANs scale performance along with capacity, helping customers avoid complicated, costly controller upgrades.
- Simple Management. Every LeftHand iSCSI SAN provides a complete enterprise class storage management feature set at no additional cost, including Storage Clustering, Network RAID, Thin Provisioning, Snapshots, and Remote Copy.
The eighth generation of SAN/iQ software brings additional virtualization capabilities to our storage networks through new features like SmartClone, which instantly replicates data volumes and data sets without requiring additional storage space.
LeftHand’s innovative, patented architecture allows users to manage local and remote storage resources together from a single console and grow their SANs seamlessly or extend them to remote offices with cost-effective virtual SAN solutions.
Customers
More than 3,000 customers across the globe rely on LeftHand SANs to improve data availability and help protect their bottom line, including Alcoa, Comcast, Oxford University, Los Angeles Valley College, JMP Securities, the London Stock Exchange (FTSE), Nikon, Pfizer, Time Warner Cable, UCLA, University of Maryland, the Army Corp of Engineers, Mitsubishi and Verizon.
Our Partners
We work with some of the most experienced partners in the world to deliver the best technology the storage industry has to offer. LeftHand has built strategic industry alliances with VMware, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Dell, Oracle, Red Hat, Sun and other key storage eco-system partners, to provide solutions engineered to meet our customers’ most urgent business and data management needs.
Green Data Systems and certified LeftHand resellers help to ensure that every SAN deployment is tailored to match a customer's specific needs.