Who are LeftHand Networks?

LeftHand SANs deliver physical and virtual SANs that are easy to grow, easy to manage and designed for high performance and to be cost-effective. LeftHand architecture clusters storage devices into a single virtual pool, automating storage management and providing continual access to business-critical information.

Add a new node to your SAN and SAN/iQ® software automatically re-stripes all the data within the cluster, balancing the data load for optimal performance and reliability.

Every LeftHand SAN:

• Scales Easily with Your Business. Our storage networks scale performance along with capacity, allowing you to start with any size SAN and grow.
• Delivers the Highest Availability. The unique architecture of the LeftHand SAN eliminates any single point of failure, ensuring anytime, anywhere data access.
• Protects Your Data. Award-winning SAN/iQ software spreads multiple copies of data across the network, allowing uninterrupted access to volumes even through the loss of an entire data centre.

SAN/iQ

SAN/iQ is LeftHand's storage software platform that creates a virtual SAN. It is ideal for customers who are looking to realise the benefits of advanced server virtualisation in data centres and remote offices where physical SAN deployment is inhibited by space and/or budget constraints.

Features of SAN/iQ include:

• Storage Clustering. LeftHand SANs are composed of multiple storage nodes, clustered together. Each storage node contains its own controller, so adding more nodes increases performance and redundancy along with storage capacity, eliminating performance bottlenecks associated with legacy SAN technologies
• Network RAID. Continuous data availability in the event of a network, disk, controller, or storage node failure
• Thin Provisioning. A powerful form of storage virtualisation that lets you create large virtual storage volumes that only consume the capacity used by actual data, leaving no stranded storage capacity
• Snapshots. Instant point-in-time copies of your data on a volume-by-volume basis
• Remote Copy. Only the changes over time are synced to the remote volume, greatly speeding up data transfer over your network or WAN