Intransa Opens Office in Israel and Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement with One1 Systems to Continue Its Rapid Global IP SAN Growth
Intransa and One1 Systems Enter Into Partnership to Reap the Benefits of a Growing Market for Intransa's Patented Modular System for Next-Generation IP SANs
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 22, 2004
Intransa, the global leader in enterprise IP SAN storage systems, announced today that it is opening its office in Israel and has appointed Efy Magdasy as Director of Business Development. The company also announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with One1 Systems, a leading provider of information technology in Israel. This relationship will mutually enable One1 Systems and Intransa to strive for a market leadership position in the growing IP SAN storage solutions segment in Israel. One1 Systems will continue to collaborate with other Intransa partners in Israel to provide best support to existing customers and newly developed businesses.
Intransa leads the IP SAN market by delivering the industry's most comprehensive suite of IP SAN solutions to meet the needs of small, mid-tier, and enterprise-class customers alike. The Intransa IP storage offering is based on the company's IP SAN IntraStorT architecture, a three tired architecture that allows for independent capacity and performance scaling; and the StorControlT management software. Using Intransa's StorControl T software, IT administrators can easily add an additional storage controller or disk enclosure without impacting performance or system availability.
“One1 Systems is excited to be selected as an exclusive distributor of Intransa's storage products in Israel,” Adi Eyal, managing director, One1 Systems. “Given the growing demand for such products in this region we are confident of being the best choice for our customers in meeting their storage needs.”
“We are excited at Efy joining us and bringing with him an in depth understanding of the storage market and also we could not have picked a better organization then One1 Systems to be our strategic partner,” Avi Katz, president and CEO, Intransa. “This relationship is a good example of how Intransa is working with partners to help us grow at a rapid pace on a global basis. Intransa's IP SAN IP3000 and IP5500 introduce a sophisticated set of products that enable customers to easily add storage capacity from 2 to over 60 terabytes (TB). These products allow users to consolidate their e-mail applications, databases, backup and restore applications and other mission-critical data management and disaster recovery applications.”
About One1 Systems
One1 Systems, together with its sister-company One1 Software, make up the third largest IT group in Israel, bringing in combined revenue of $100M. One1 Group has 700 employees that cover extensive overall IT solutions to more than 1000 customers in Israel. One1 Systems specializes in providing comprehensive IT solutions, based among other things on strategic partnerships with world leading companies such as HP and IBM. One1 Systems provides a variety of solutions, including enterprise servers, storage and backup systems.
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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