Intransa IP SAN Powers E-Commerce Internet Engine For Softcreate Corporation In Japan
SAN JOSE, California / TOKYO, Japan - September 14, 2005
Intransa, the global leader in network-centric, enterprise IP-storage systems, continuing its expansion in Japan, announced that Softcreate Corporation, a leading provider of e-commerce solutions in Japan, has selected Intransa as its IP SAN solutions provider.
“With Internet infrastructure and services continuing to expand widely in Japan, there is a strong demand for progressive e-commerce solutions in the marketplace. Softcreate's acclaimed e-commerce offerings, backed by Intransa IP SAN solutions, are ideally positioned to capture a large share of this fast growing market,” says Mr. Nakashima, president, Macnica Networks, Intransa's distribution partner in Japan.
Serving more than 180 large e-commerce customers in Japan, Softcreate has deployed an Intransa IP SAN solution at its Internet Data Centre to take advantage of storage consolidation, simplified data protection, affordable disaster recovery, and the superior data management capabilities offered by Intransa's IP solution.
“We chose Intransa's IP SAN solution for our Internet Data Centre because of its ability to easily scale for performance and capacity, as per our business needs,” says Mr. Hayashi, COO of Softcreate. “The Intransa IP SAN complements our existing e-commerce solution offerings and we are working closely with Intransa to deploy IP SAN supported e-commerce solutions that will provide a distinct cost and performance advantage to our customers,” he added.
Intransa's native IP SAN product suite is designed specifically to leverage a company's existing Ethernet infrastructure, and uses the power of TCP/IP networking and the advantages of xATA disk drives – making it an attractive complement to proprietary Fibre Channel solutions. The Intransa IP storage offering is based on the company's IP SAN IntraStor® platform – a three-tiered architecture that allows for independent capacity and performance scaling – and StorControl® management software. Using Intransa's StorControl software, IT administrators can easily add an additional storage controller or disk enclosure on the fly – without disrupting performance or system availability.
“E-commerce solutions, typically characterized by high data flows and rapid data growth, need highly flexible, reliable, and scalable storage systems,” said Tom Alexander, president and CEO, Intransa, Inc. “Intransa's uniquely scalable native IP SAN solutions are ideally positioned to support Softcreate's e-commerce solutions and we look forward to further expanding our footprint in Japan through this relationship.”
About Softcreate Corporation
Headquartered in Tokyo, Softcreate Corporation is a leading provider of e-commerce solutions in Japan. A publicly listed company, Softcreate is also the developer of “ecbeing,” a much acclaimed e-commerce engine used by over 180 large e-commerce customers in Japan. Predominantly focused on the Japanese market, more than half of Softcreate's revenues come from its systems integration services, with infrastructure projects and Internet retailing solutions making up the remainder. For more information, visit www.softcreate.co.jp
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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