SANRAD Delivers Affordable IP SAN for LaunchPad Communications.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- SANRAD Incorporated, a leader in developing and delivering intelligent IP SAN solutions, today announced that its V-Switch 2000 has been selected by LaunchPad Communications, a sales and marketing company that specializes in direct-to-consumer marketing campaigns, as an alternative to more costly Fibre Channel storage options. Los Angeles-based LaunchPad currently operates Consumer Resource Network, a real estate foreclosure listing service and PS Family Healthcare, a discount healthcare program. The company currently manages 2.7TB of storage on SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. storage arrays. The V-Switch is being implemented into LaunchPad's IP SAN architecture to provide data protection in the event of a system failure via its data replication and migration applications. "I selected the V-Switch 2000 from SANRAD because they seem to be the leader in IP SANs," said Jeremy Malara, Systems Administrator for LaunchPad. "I like the idea of managing everything from the network layer with an intelligent switch and SANRAD's products are competitively priced." Malara said that future plans include the addition of a second V-Switch 2000 for additional redundancy as the company grows. "For companies, like LaunchPad, that are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an IP SAN solution with no single point of failure, that can manage and mirror volumes for ultimate data protection, and that are more affordable than Fibre Channel SANs, the V-Switch is an ideal choice," said Zophar Sante, Vice President of Market Development at SANRAD. "The V-Switch 2000 enables cost-effective IP SANs that effectively access storage, share resources, provide security and manage volumes." SANRAD's iSCSI V-Switch 2000 is a convergence of functions, which include protocol bridging, storage routing, switching, security, load-balancing, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. and volume management within a single easy to manage platform designed to reduce the inherent complexity of deploying a SAN. To learn more on SANRAD IP SAN platforms, visit: www.sanrad.com. About SANRAD SANRAD is the leading IP SAN provider, delivering intelligence at the network layer, empowering hundreds of organizations worldwide to effectively access, share and manage storage across standard Ethernet environments. SANRAD delivers a new dimension in the continuity and simple management of vital business information by coupling standard ISCSI connectivity with critical network-based storage services. SANRAD is the only IP SAN company to create open ISCSI-based SANs that enable continuous data protection, virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , local and long distance replication and effective resource provisioning with unbeatable price/performance. SANRAD's U.S. sales, marketing and support offices are located in Silicon Valley/Bay Area, Calif., with research and development and international sales offices in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel. SANRAD is backed by leading venture capital firm Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. and is a member of the RAD Group The RAD Group is a collection of independent companies that develop, manufacture and market solutions for diverse segments of the networking and telecommunications industry. , a family of more than 20 independent companies that together make up one of the largest multi-national revenue producers in networking. |
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