Jun 25, 2007

LeftHand Networks Wins 7th Annual eWEEK Excellence Award

Boulder, Colo.

SAN/iQ 6.6 Recognized as 'Best Enterprise Storage Software'

LeftHand Networks announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the industry’s leading enterprise IT magazines, has named SAN/iQ 6.6 a winner in eWEEK’s Seventh Annual Excellence Awards program, in the Enterprise Storage Software category. The winning products in this year’s program, including SAN/iQ 6.6, will be the focus of a comprehensive special report in the June 25 issue of eWEEK.

“ The recognition of SAN/iQ as the leading enterprise storage software platform further validates LeftHand Networks’ enterprise capabilities,” said John Fanelli, vice president of marketing for LeftHand Networks. “LeftHand’s open iSCSI SANs combine enterprise-class x86 industry standard servers with the SAN/iQ storage software platform allowing us to provide SANs to large and mid-size enterprises that are scalable, highly available, reliable and performing ”

SAN/iQ is the industry’s first and only open software platform built from the ground up to deliver iSCSI SANs with enterprise-class features running on enterprise-class x86 server hardware. The SAN/iQ platform greatly simplifies storage provisioning, management and data availability. Customers can select from a variety of industry standard hardware platforms best suited to meet performance, capacity, reliability and budget requirements while also protecting current network storage investments. This allows customers to implement the best configuration to address today’s specific needs and easily add additional storage as business and capacity requirements change.

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries this year was a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners, providing a unique mix of technical and real-world analysis.

“The Excellence Awards program allows us to make recommendations about products that respond to the complex and dynamic demands that eWEEK readers are facing," said eWEEK Editorial Director Eric Lundquist. “Opportunities are being created by new technology and by customers' interest in new ways of using that technology.”

Proceeds from this year’s Excellence Awards program will be donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, in support of programs that leverage technology.

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 server consolidation and virtualization projects, Microsoft Application environments, and disaster recovery solutions . For more information, contact LeftHand at info@lefthandnetworks.com.

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