SANRAD, Israel based storage area network (SAN) company and a part of the Israel based conglomerate, the RAD Group, which is a global front-runner in advanced iSCSI solutions as IP SAN, Remote Replication & Disaster Recovery solutions, has made a formal announcement of its definitive plans for the Indian Enterprise & SMB storage area networking market with the launch of SANRAD India Operations that will be headquartered in New Delhi.

SANRAD is hugely appreciated for its ability to deliver cost-effective, quickly deployable, & easily managed networked storage environment of IP-SANs at a fraction of the cost and complexity compared to FC-SANs offered by all other major players in the market and its superior performance and scalability over NAS (Network Area Storage). SANRAD makes it possible for companies to enjoy the benefits of SANs even for entry-level and mid-tier enterprise applications.

Said, Mr. Yoram Sherman, Director – International Sales, SANRAD, Israel, "The rapid growth and dependence on the technological advances makes reliable data storage, retrieval and management extremely critical. We intend to capitalize upon our global experience and technological competence to deliver solutions to address the demands of the Enterprise class businesses & organizations in India, while ensuring a low TCO to enable even the SMB segment to benefit from our latest technology."

SANRAD is delivering its IP SAN solutions with enterprise class features in a cost effective, scalable, and easy to setup network storage solution to hundreds of organizations worldwide. SANRAD's Intelligent IP-SAN switches deliver n/w-based comprehensive storage services including Virtualization, Data Migration across disparate storage systems within a SAN, storage-over-distance apps as Remote Replication & Disaster Recovery etc . Sanrad's solution allows deployment of a true heterogeneous storage environment, & implementation of tiered-storage, for also leveraging the lower cost Tier II & commodity storages available. Sanrad's switches deliver comprehensive storage management services to any storage systems.

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), IP SANs are expected to capture more than 25% of the global storage market by 2007. A number of factors contributing to this growing appeal for IP-SANs include:

• Ease of Deployment: IP SANs can be set up quickly and with minimal training and can be implemented wherever IP networks are available;
• IP Benefits: organizations can leverage the inherent management capabilities of IP including SAN management, Quality of Service, load-balancing, routing and security;
• Based on Proven Technologies: SCSI and Ethernet/IP are well established and enable organizations to leverage their existing IT infrastructure and knowledge;
• Wide OS support: a wide array of Operating Systems are now shipping an iSCSI initiator, for example Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and almost all other popular O.S.