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LeftHand Networks Announces New Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA); VSA Circumvents VMotion SAN Prerequisite

February 18, 2008

LeftHand Networks’ new focus on SMBs and ROBOs is seen in today’s new product offering – their Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA). It provides for failover between different VMware ESX servers using VMware’s VMotion feature without a requirement for an external iSCSI or FC SAN. LeftHand Networks circumvents this requirement for an external SAN by using its SAN/iQ software to virtualize disk (internal or external) on each VMware server and then creating a cluster of VMs on different VMware physical servers.

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Archived Storage Market Forecast to Grow to $23 Billion by 2010; Interview with Plasmon CEO, Steven Murphy, Part 2 of 2

February 15, 2008

Steven: The global storage market is currently a $45 billion a year industry and it is anticipated to grow to $50 billion a year by 2010 with archived storage forecast to increase from $9 billion in 2007 to $23 billion in 2010. Of the data that is currently stored to disk, 80% of that data is fixed content data that is rarely accessed and can be preserved in archives. We offer companies a third tier of storage that looks and acts like disk, has the properties of tape, and uses policy based software to manage data retention and compliance. Companies are looking very closely at the benefits of the technology. Plasmon archive solutions with UDO meet long term retention requirements at a cost businesses need.

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CommVault Systems and NEC Claim “Gold” in Backup and Disaster Recovery

February 14, 2008

When a specific product receives recognition or an award from an independent third party, it is always a cause for celebration. Both NEC’s HYDRAstor and CommVault’s Galaxy received Storage magazine and searchstorage.com’s Gold award in their respective 2007 Product of the Year “Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware” and “Backup and Disaster Recovery Software” categories. However it was much more than a “win” for either of these a products; rather it was a validation of years of research and hard work to deliver products that met the tactical needs of today’s businesses and are also designed to meet their more strategic needs of backup and disaster recovery going forward.

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