{"id":38516,"date":"2008-10-13T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vmengine.net\/2008\/10\/13\/hp-lefthand-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:06:49","slug":"hp-lefthand-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/2008\/10\/13\/hp-lefthand-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"HP\/LeftHand &#8211; Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:it--><a href=\"https:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/hp1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81\" title=\"Hp\" src=\"https:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/hp1.jpg\" alt=\"Hp\" width=\"84\" height=\"55\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lefthandnetworks11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-82\" title=\"lefthandnetworks\" src=\"https:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lefthandnetworks11.jpg\" alt=\"lefthandnetworks\" width=\"209\" height=\"55\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hewlett-Packard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/hpinfo\/newsroom\/press\/2008\/081001a.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired LeftHand Networks on October 1<\/a> to open its market to the new logic of storage virtualization, storage clustering, or rather commodity-based storage clusters.<\/p>\n<p>LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in iSCSI SAN technology, offers scalable storage software for the standard hardware industry. With the LeftHand, HP&#8217;s portfolio of virtualization solutions for small and medium-sized businesses is extended, reducing training and overall complexity of use and using common and cost-effective storage servers. As a result, companies can move to a SAN for the significantly lower cost, manage their data more easily, and scale their data storage infrastructure as incrementally as their business does.<\/p>\n<p>We had already looked at this technology in particular SAN\/iQ and had already had discussions about it with many storage professionals, including friends at HP.<\/p>\n<p>Another apt <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vmengine.net\/2008\/07\/08\/isilon-contatti-e-valutazione-offerta-commerciale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prediction<\/a> for VMengine, always ahead of its time<!--:--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks on October 1 to open its market to the new logic of storage virtualization, storage clustering, or rather commodity-based storage clusters. LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in iSCSI SAN technology, offers scalable storage software for the standard hardware industry. With the LeftHand, HP&#8217;s portfolio of virtualization solutions for small and medium-sized businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[436,248,125,437,438,287,439,131],"class_list":["post-38516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","tag-commodity-server-en","tag-ecosystem-en","tag-hp-en","tag-lefthand-networks-en","tag-san-iq-en","tag-storage-en","tag-storage-cluster-en","tag-stories-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lefthandnetworks11-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40797,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38516\/revisions\/40797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}