Intransa Deepens Traction in Higher-Education Market; Selected By Soka University to Deploy IP SAN to Triple Storage Capacity and Simplify Data Management
University of Miami, Virginia Tech and Oakland University Standardize on Intransa IP Storage System, Powered by StorControlTM Software to Consolidate, Protect and Centralize Storage Assets to Reduce Complexity and Management Costs
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec 6, 2004
Intransa, the global leader in enterprise IP SAN storage systems, announced today that the company continues to see strong traction in the higher-education market with the announcement of Soka University. Intransa has been selected by Soka to deploy an IP storage area network (SAN) to triple storage capacity and simplify data management under a single solution. Soka chose Intransa's IP SAN system over competitive solutions because of its patented, modular approach that independently scales performance and capacity based on business requirements. The IP5500 storage system, powered by Intransa's patented StorControlTM software, will consolidate Soka's direct attached storage (DAS) environment to seamlessly scale and manage over 12 terabytes of information.
“After testing several IP SAN solutions, we chose Intransa because of its modular architecture, superior performance and bottom line cost savings,” said Saeed Fakhriravari, director of information technology, Soka University. “Intransa’s storage system allows us to leverage our existing Ethernet infrastructure and gives us the flexibility to scale both capacity and performance as we need it.”
In addition to Soka, leading universities including University of Miami, Virginia Tech, and Oakland University have also standardized on the Intransa IP SAN product family, which represents a new generation of networked storage systems. Intransa’s storage products are ideally suited for the higher-education market providing the following bottom-line benefits:
- Ability to leverage existing Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) infrastructure and 10 GigE backbone for data-intensive research without having to introduce an expensive, proprietary Fibre Channel solution into the equation.
- Consolidate storage and server resources and centralize management from a single enterprise data center – reducing administrative costs by 75 percent over any other storage system on the market.
- Industry’s only modular architecture that provides complete flexibility to add performance and/or capacity on the fly as needed.
- Provides high-end system availability to keep pace with 24x7 information requirements of research facilities, faculty and students.
- Supports a wide range of applications across the extended campus and runs seamlessly – eliminating the need to modify the storage network or computing environment.
Soka will leverage the Intransa IP5500 storage system to consolidate its Microsoft Exchange server farm and significantly increase file utilization and throughput. Intransa’s storage systems are ideally suited for demanding Microsoft applications such as Exchange or SQL Server for block storage – as part of an elegant, cost-effective IP-based solution. Intransa’s IP SAN simplifies off-site backup and is ideally suited for multi-terabyte storage consolidation in highly distributed environments. Soka will benefit from guaranteed performance and availability while reducing their storage costs by offloading storage management tasks and paying only for the capacity they need.
“Customers are demanding highly scalable IP SAN solutions to manage escalating storage requirements,” said Tim Zimmerman, vice president enterprise storage, Synegi. “We focus on delivering storage solutions that provide significant value for our customers. Intransa’s IP storage systems provide reliability, performance and scalability, which make them a compelling choice for users that want storage-on-demand solutions to reduce cost of ownership and accelerate the return on their IT investment.”
“We're delighted with the rapid customer adoption and momentum Intransa has established with leading channel partners such as Synegi,” said John Noellert, vice president of North America Sales, Intransa. “Our second-generation IP storage systems are more cost-effective and easier to manage than any Fibre Channel, or IP SAN solution available making this a great fit for our University customers. Companies of every size require dependable storage that is safe, simple to scale, and takes advantage of the existing Ethernet infrastructure already in place. Intransa does just that. We provide storage for your network, not another network for your storage.”
About Soka University
Soka University, Aliso Viejo (SUA) is a private, non-profit, four-year liberal arts college located on 103 acres overlooking the 4000-acre Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park in South Orange County, California. It offers a 9 to 1 student/faculty ratio and Eastern and Western perspectives taught with a special emphasis on foreign language and culture. SUA’s curriculum is non-sectarian. The university is founded upon the Buddhist principles of peace, human rights and the sanctity of life and is open to top students of all nationalities and beliefs. See www.soka.edu for more information.
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.
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