Intransa Strengthens And Expands ISCSI / IP Distribution In Europe
SAN JOSE, CA — September 6, 2005
Intransa, the global leader in network-centric, enterprise IP-storage systems, has strengthened and expanded its European presence and announced partnership agreements with AddIQ, Bearcom, BT Skynet, Cisilion, Complete Solutions, Datasave, Matrix Communications, Overlap, Prob Solve Solutions, Stordata and Zycko. This expanded team of European partners will resell Intransa's hardware and software storage solutions to small and mid-range enterprises in the United Kingdom, France and Sweden.
According to analyst reports IT organizations have accelerated their adoption of IP solutions in a variety of mainstream IT production environments. With the emergence of IP SANs using iSCSI, organizations now have a broader range of products at their disposal to consolidate storage, protect their data, deploy a disaster recovery solution and improve data management.
“Only Intransa can offer its European integration partners the iSCSI SAN solutions that customers are looking for, with best-in-class features such as independent scalability in both performance and capacity, and superior management, including the ability to manage 3rd party iSCSI bricks,” said Janet Gilmore, sales manager at Cisilion. “With the addition of Intransa's innovative and network-centric iSCSI SAN systems this positions us to offer iSCSI solutions into the European marketplace that previously didn't exist.”
Intransa's software and hardware systems are currently sold through resellers worldwide in Europe, Asia and the United States providing the industry's only network-centric IP SAN. With Intransa solutions customers enjoy supreme scalability at a fraction of fibre channel prices, i mproved manageability and the ability to create storage volumes spanning multiple disk enclosures and striping across them for added performance. Intransa's patented IP SAN IntraStor® modular architecture allows customers to seamlessly tune capacity and performance independently, without requiring a major forklift upgrade. Growing capacity is as simple as adding a new disk controller or enclosure, which is automatically recognized and provisioned by Intransa's StorControl® software, without impacting performance or system availability.
“Intransa iSCSI solutions assist our partners in providing customers with best-in-class scalable, cost-effective SAN solutions that meet their evolving and growing storage needs,” said Doug Rainbolt, Intransa vice president of marketing. “With the addition of new resellers in Europe it expands the scope of Intransa's addressable market in response to increasing demand for flexible and true network centric IP SANs.”
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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