Intransa Chosen as One of Red Herring's Top 100 Hottest Private Companies
Superior technology, product innovation, sound finances, excellent management and superior business execution lead to award
SAN JOSE, California — May 25, 2005
Intransa, Inc., the global leader in network-centric, enterprise IP-storage systems, has been awarded as one of the Red Herring 2005 Top 100 Hottest Private Companies in North America. The magazine's editors chose Intransa based on the company's market metrics, superior technology and continuous innovation, execution of business strategy and management strength.
“There were many strong candidates for the Red Herring 100 list this year, so making it onto the list is quite an achievement,” said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. “In the post-bubble era, innovation and entrepreneurship are thriving. The leading technology companies on this list have focused on making sure management is strong and that their business model makes sense.”
The Red Herring list is published annually and is a compilation of the next wave of promising companies who, with their superior technology and business innovation, are expected to forever change the way we live and work. In addition, the list provides a barometric reading of the market, revealing industry sectors where technology is exciting, where money is being invested and long-term growth is strong.
“Vision and execution, coupled with the right technology, right timing and strong customer traction globally, have made Intransa a pioneer and early leader in the network-centric, enterprise IP-storage systems market,” said Eric Benhamou, chairman of Intransa. “This validation of Intransa's high success potential by Red Herring magazine is a gratifying milestone.”
Intransa is the only IP SAN vendor, to date, to be included as part of the elite Red Herring 100 list. This is the second Red Herring Top 100 award nomination for Intransa. In 2004 Intransa was selected as a finalist in the Red Herring Top 100 Innovators award program.
“Recognition by Red Herring further energizes our commitment to deliver innovative, high performance, scalable storage products, based on open standards and affordable IP technology, to meet our customers' business requirements without breaking their IT budgets.” said Dr. Avi Katz, president and CEO, Intransa, Inc.
In its ninth year, The Red Herring 100 has become the most respected list of its kind, previewing the leaders of tomorrow in a number of key technology-related sectors, including computing, biosciences, energy, entertainment and media, Internet and services and security. In compiling the 2005 list, Red Herring editors reviewed more than 900 companies and took a hard look at each company's ability to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones, execution of its strategy, the quality of its management and financial performance.
About Red Herring
Red Herring is the weekly magazine technology entrepreneurs, investors and industry observers read to stay ahead of the curve and to be better informed about the global marketplace. Red Herring covers technology, innovation, financial strategies, important personalities and trends that are transforming the world of business with unique insight, opinion and forward-looking analysis. Readers turn to Red Herring for knowledge to make strategic decisions, build companies and create a competitive advantage for their businesses. Red Herring articles, blogs, research and event information can be found online at www.redherring.com.
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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