Networked Storage Leader Paul Talbut Joins Intransa’s Advisory Council
European Storage Industry Pioneer Brings Insight and Visibility to Intransa’s European Operations
SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 8, 2004
Intransa Inc., the global leader in intelligent IP SAN data storage, today announced that storage industry pioneer Paul Talbut has joined the company’s Advisory Council. Talbut is chief executive of Hardware Planning Services Limited, chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association Europe, and a founding member and four-year chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association Europe. He has more than 30 years of IT industry experience.
“Paul is widely recognized as one of the leading network storage figures in Europe,” said Dr. Avi Katz, President and CEO of Intransa. “As the IP SAN revolution spreads worldwide, Paul will leverage his enormous industry credibility to help evangelize and educate the European market on the powerful benefits of the new IP storage technology.”
“Intransa is delivering today on its powerful vision of native IP storage area networks,” said Paul Talbut. “The European storage market is beginning to embrace the merits of native IP SANs. It is clear that Intransa has an opportunity to emerge as the IP SAN market leader in Europe and around the world.”
Intransa’s advisory council is composed of industry pioneers and thought leaders. The council helps guide Intransa as it delivers groundbreaking storage solutions using Internet Protocol (IP). See the list of Intransa advisory council members.
Using innovative architecture and sophisticated management software, Intransa’s IP SAN enables customers to easily add storage capacity from 2 to 16 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 hardware commodity trend and the widespread knowledge of IP networking. The Intransa IP SAN facilitates the enterprise deployment of tiered and on-demand storage infrastructure.
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.
Media contact:
Kathleen Bermea-Sullivan
Ignite Public Relations & Investor Relations Consulting
Phone: +1 (720) 480-5501
www.igniteconsultinginc.com
E-mail: