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Saint Anselm College Selects LeftHand Networks to Address Growing Data Storage Needs

Posted on: Monday, 21 July 2003, 06:00 CDT

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003--

Leading IP SAN Provider Delivers a Compelling Education Market

Solution by Bringing Simplicity to Complex Storage Networks

LeftHand Networks(TM), a leading provider of complete, integrated IP SAN storage solutions, today announced that Saint Anselm College, a private liberal arts college located in Manchester, New Hampshire, has purchased a storage solution from LeftHand Networks to manage the critical data associated with the college's administration and application delivery. Educational institutions including Fresno Pacific University, LA Valley College, University of Wisconsin, 4GL School Solutions, Inc., and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have also selected an IP SAN based on LeftHand's ability to provide a full-featured storage area network while significantly reducing complexity and cost. By implementing LeftHand Networks' Distributed Storage Matrix(TM) (DSM) and Network Storage Modules (NSM) with their existing infrastructure, these institutions are reaping the benefits of standards-based network storage with sophisticated features such as high availability, virtualization, replication, and snapshot.

Saint Anselm College, founded in 1889, is home to 2,000 students majoring in 31 liberal arts programs. The College is also home to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, established in 1999 to serve as a resource for students, scholars, politicians, and the general public. The Institute is a regular stop on the presidential primaries tour, which will draw attention and traffic to Saint Anselm this fall.

"We evaluated fibre channel SAN technology, but an IP SAN offered all the same functionality in a less complex, much more cost-effective package," said Dave Vigneau, Network Manager for Saint Anselm College. "Our key requirements were the support of critical applications such as Microsoft(R) Exchange and SQL Server, ensuring disaster recovery capability, and the option to consolidate servers."

The Saint Anselm deployment consists of mirrored primary and secondary sites running on LeftHand Networks' products. The primary site will support Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL and file serving. Saint Anselm College is consolidating from five Exchange servers down to two Exchange servers by utilizing shared storage. The ability to scale capacity without downtime and to easily reassign capacity between applications made an IP SANs solution ideal for Saint Anselm's rapidly growing applications.

A snapshot copy will be taken of all primary volumes, and the snapshots will be replicated to the secondary site. Backups will be taken from the secondary site; Saint Anselm's primary data will not be impacted by the backup process.

"We're pleased that customers in the education market are so responsive to solutions from LeftHand Networks," said David Bangs, vice president of sales at LeftHand Networks. "Our storage solutions will continue to deliver the reliability and performance that these types of institutions need, without the complexity and high management costs typically associated with storage networks."

LeftHand Networks Inc., is a venture-backed, network storage company located in Boulder, Colorado, a leading area for both storage and networking innovation. LeftHand Networks redefined the shared storage market in 2002 with the introduction of the first full-featured IP SAN. By building a SAN utilizing the existing Ethernet infrastructure, the LeftHand Networks solution eliminates the learning curve, expensive fibre channel components, and complexity associated with fibre channel SANs. LeftHand's IP SAN is ideal for Microsoft(R) Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, server consolidation, local or geographic disaster recovery, and disk-to-disk backup projects.

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