Intransa and Atempo Establish Strategic Alliance
Intelligent IP SAN leader joins forces with data protection software innovator to deliver open, massively-scalable and robust storage networks
NEW YORK CITY, Storage Decisions (Booth 72) — April 27, 2004
Intransa Inc., the global leader in intelligent IP SAN data storage, and Atempo Inc., a pioneer of data-protection software solutions for enterprise environments, today announced a strategic alliance to deliver Internet Protocol Storage Area Networks (IP SANs) equipped with the industry’s best-of-breed data protection solution.
Intransa and Atempo will jointly offer customers a solution combining Intransa’s IP5000 Storage System and Atempo’s Time Navigator™ data protection software. This combination lets companies worldwide leverage the ubiquity and cost-effectiveness of Ethernet networks to build open, massively-scalable and robust IP SANs that meet the most demanding data protection requirements.
“This alliance represents the leading-edge data management solution available to the market today,” said Dr. Avi Katz, President and CEO of Intransa. “As enterprises worldwide adopt IP SANs for their low total cost of ownership, their scalability and their ease of use, they require high-performance data protection and disaster recovery capabilities. This combination hits the bull’s-eye.”
“We are pleased to enter into an alliance with Intransa,” said Hervé Goguely, President of Atempo Americas. “Like Intransa, Atempo is leading the way forward to the next generation of open data management solutions that meet the needs of the enterprise – security, high availability and ease of management.”
Using innovative architecture and sophisticated management software, Intransa’s IP SAN enables customers to easily add storage capacity from 2 to 24 terabytes (TB), meeting the needs of high volume e-mail and collaborative environments such as Microsoft Exchange, databases, backup and restore software, and other mission-critical applications. Intransa’s IP SAN provides IT administrators an attractive alternative to expensive Fibre Channel components by leveraging the network commodity trend and the widespread knowledge of IP networking. The Intransa IP SAN facilitates the enterprise deployment of tiered and on-demand storage infrastructure.
Built upon a single unified architecture, Atempo’s Time Navigator delivers unparalleled restore performance plus a rich feature set that delivers today’s most in-demand data protection features. Time Navigator is targeted at open heterogeneous environments’ and delivers flexibility when and where it is needed by end –users. With its unique concept of “time navigation”, Time Navigator is the only software product on the market that allows end-users single file access at any point in time. A unique and easy to use directory tree makes locating restored files a simple and visual process. In addition, Time Navigator addresses firewall security by requiring only a single port to be opened for backup through the firewall. Time Navigator also offers in-demand features such as multi-streaming and synthetic full backup, giving end-users the highest degree of control over time and resources in the backup and restore process.
About Intransa
Intransa, Inc. is the leading innovator of shared, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions for video and IT storage. A single DVR can benefit from Intransa storage, increasing reliability and retention while reducing video surveillance cost.
Based in San Jose, CA, Intransa offers scalable, high performance security-grade storage with outstanding availability and price/performance, with built in Set-and-Forget Management for proven ease of use. The company's Video Storage Administrator toolkit is the first in the industry to configure external storage for use in video surveillance and other physical security applications without requiring extensive IT storage knowledge for maximum benefit. Instead, the VSA is configured and administered using familiar frame rate, resolution, retention period and other physical security terms.
Beginning as a 3Com spin-off, Intransa has been shipping shared IP network storage solutions since 2003. Intransa IP storage is available worldwide through authorized StorPartner security and systems integrators. Intransa is an Axis Communications Applications Development Partner, Cisco Ecosystem Provider, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and VMware Technology Alliance Partner along with many other industry partnerships through our StorAlliance Technology Partner program.
Intransa believes and supports industry standards, and is a member of the Security Industry Association, the Storage Networking Industry Association and its green storage initiative, and The Green Grid organization for green IT. Intransa employees are also members and supporters of ASIS International and the ASIS Physical Security Council.
For more information about Intransa and our industry-leading sharable, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions, to locate a StorPartner security and systems integrator, or to join the StorAlliance Technology Partner program, please visit us at www.intransa.com.
Intransa, StarterBlock, Intransa Sharable Security Platform, Intransa ISSP, EdgeBlock, BuildingBlock, PerformanceBlock, Security-Grade IP Video Storage, DynaStac, StorStac OS, StorManager, StorStac Snapshot, StorAR, StorCluster, the 3Rs for Video, the 3Ss of IP Storage, Set-and-Forget Management, StorSupport, StorWarranty, StorAlliance and StorPartner are registered names and trademarks of Intransa, Inc. All others are the property of their respective holders.
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