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HP Acquires LeftHand Networks
Hewlett-Packard announced today the purchase of SAN maker LeftHand Networks for $360 million. LeftHand was founded in 1999 and has become a leader in iSCSI SAN solutions. HP plans on adding the LeftHand product into its product line in between the lower-end MSA and the higher-end EVA models. The company boasted 11,000 installations across 3,000 customers worldwide.
LeftHand’s solution is slightly different than HP’s, though will complement HP’s offerings nicely. Their SANs offer themselves up to the network only as iSCSI targets and don’t offer the SAN/NAS compatibility like other competing devices, but they do offer a lower entry point into the SAN arena. Rather than purchasing the head node and adding shelves when additional storage is needed, LeftHand built its SANs upon traditional x86 servers and used filesystem clustering to provide redundancy, performance, and capacity. The benefit to this model is somewhat of a pay-as-you-go model since a company doesn’t have to make a large up-front investment and then smaller investments later. Instead, you can invest less up front and expand the ‘cluster’ as you go.
Tags: hp, iscsi, lefthand networks
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Oct 1st, 2008
The Evolution of the Notebook
HP announced its new EliteBook 6930p notebook a few days ago, bragging up to 24 hours of battery life. To attain this long battery life it needs to have an extra high-capacity battery. If it’s anything like the Gateway or Dell machines with extra-capcity batteries that extend out of the normal case of the machine, then I won’t have anything to do with it, but that’s not what’s interesting here. It appears we are on the brink of the notebook becoming a commodity like cell phones are today. We have been seeing the rise of the use of ‘netbooks’, a smaller, cheaper form of laptops. With the new ‘all-day’ laptops, the small form-factor of the netbook, and wireless signal using WiMaxx or 3G, the computer is well on its way to becoming the new cell phone. In fact, Cnet has mentioned possible deals in the works between Dell and a wireless provider to offer a wireless plan that includes one of the Dell Inspiron Mini9’s. It’ll be interesting for sure what happens in the laptop market, but battery life was one of the missing links in our search for a true mobile computing experience.
Tags: dell, hp, netbooks, wimaxx
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Sep 13th, 2008
