Alternative Technology And LeftHand Networks Promote Cost Savings In The Data Center And Remote Office With SAN Virtualization
Alternative Technology, a leading specialty distributor of thin-client/server-based computing, edge infrastructure, virtualization, and government-approved security solutions, recently announced the general availability of LeftHand Networks Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) for VMware ESX Server, along with a host of information that will enable solution providers to reduce the cost of deploying and operating storage within their client's virtualized server environments.
Customers are realizing tremendous benefits from server virtualization. However, with multiple applications running on physical servers, customers are at increased risk of data loss or downtime unless they deploy a highly available virtual infrastructure, which traditionally required significant investment for physical shared storage. LeftHand Networks' VSA provides a cost-effective shared storage solution via a redundant SAN with automated failover. The combination of the VSA and VMware Infrastructure provides an automated, high-availability solution for both application servers and storage with failover and failback between physical servers.
"LeftHand Networks' VSA enables our solution providers to save their customers money by recapturing local storage within the ESX virtualized servers," said Tom Zorn, executive vice president, Alternative Technology. "Without this type of solution, the server virtualization environment effectively prevents the local storage from being utilized. The virtual SAN allows you to recapture that storage and address that spinning media. This solution is also a cost effective way to virtualize downstream server environments," said Zorn.
"Alternative Technology brings significant reach and a strong reputation for providing leading solutions to the server virtualization market," said David Bangs, vice president of sales at LeftHand Networks. "With LeftHand Networks' highly available physical and virtual SAN solutions, Alternative Technology offers leading-edge technologies that help customers overcome the challenges and reap the full benefits associated with server virtualization environments. We look forward to working with Alternative Technology to drive new opportunities and to bring these solutions to market."
The relationship with Alternative Technology extends LeftHand Networks' distribution in North America, and brings additional value to LeftHand Networks' resellers through Alternative Technology's focused product offering, advanced technical services and top-notch sales support. As a subsidiary of Arrow Electronics [NYSE: ARW], Alternative Technology connects LeftHand Networks' resellers with complementary enterprise-class storage products through Arrow's Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) unit, including: HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Network Appliance, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems.
Alternative Technology is making a host of information available to solution providers on its web site, including case studies, sales aids and solution sheets as well as product datasheets on LeftHand Networks SAN/iQ and Virtual SAN Appliance. Alternative Technology will promote and distribute LeftHand Networks' Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) for VMware ESX Server technology to its network of 3,000 resellers in the United States and Canada, but this information is available to both current and prospective solution providers at www.alttech.com/launch.
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, campus SANs, and disaster recovery. For more information, contact LeftHand at info@lefthandnetworks.com.
About Alternative Technology
Alternative Technology is a leading specialty distributor for value-added resellers who need products and services targeted at thin-client/server-based computing, edge infrastructure, virtualization, security, and wireless markets. Driving the widespread adoption of leading-edge technologies by bridging the gaps between products and services to solve critical business problems, Alternative identifies business issues that are key to its markets and offers multivendor solutions that drive demand back through its reseller partners. Alternative Technology, headquartered in Englewood, Co., has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Carlsbad, Calif., and Mississauga, Canada. Alternative Technology is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, which is a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. For more information, go to: www.AltTech.com.
SOURCE: Alternative Technology