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Intransa Extends Reach to the Entry-Level, Making SANs Affordable to the Masses

IP2000 Provides Customers with Enterprise-Class Functionality at an Entry-level Price

SAN JOSE, California — January 23, 2006

Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric, IP storage solutions today announced the general availability of the IP2000 as part of its Value-Line offering. This groundbreaking move expands Intransa’s product offering, providing it with the most product depth of any IP SAN vendor in the industry. Designed to meet the low-cost and ease-of-use requirements of small and medium businesses (SMB’s), without compromising scalability and performance required by enterprise customers, the Intransa IP2000 is perfectly suited for Microsoft applications, making it an ideal storage platform for Microsoft Exchange and SQL.

“The uniqueness of Intransa’s IP architecture and their network-centric approach will not only provide an attractive addition to our portfolio, but will allow customers, both small and large, to unleash the full potential of their IP network,” said Todd Hartung, vice president of Promark Technology, a premier value-added distributor of data storage products and solutions. “We are extremely pleased to offer Intransa’s full-family of IP SAN solutions, including their newest addition, the IP2000, to our government and commercial channel partners.”

Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst of the Taneja Group, expects that by 2008, SMB’s using DAS technology will drop from 85 percent today to 50 percent. A majority of the reduction, 30 percent, is expected to be absorbed by iSCSI products such as those sold by Intransa.

Flexibility, High Performance and Application Improvement

With the availability of the IP2000, Intransa is now the only IP vendor on the market today to provide customers with a full family of IP network-centric products, with each and every product family living up to Intransa’s reputation as delivering the most flexible and scalable architecture available. Customers have the ability to grow and maintain control of their IT infrastructure as their business needs grow, reducing unnecessary over-buying of storage capacity, and significantly reducing administrative complexity and management costs.

“Intransa’s IP 2000 system gives us the ability to seamlessly add storage capacity on demand over the IP network for our proprietary medical research application,” said Rabih Suki, CEO, Dynamic Health Systems. “The systems are painless to scale, and our end users aren’t impacted by the deployment. All they know is that performance has improved and capacity has increased.”

“The Texas Youth Commission requires a flexible storage solution that can be provisioned as needed and on demand without modifying our core network architecture.” said Sean Miller, director of network and telecommunications for the Texas Youth Commission “The solution Intransa provided us fits our requirement.”

Cost and reliability were major drivers for the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and Arts. Its physics department needed a stable storage solution to replace an off-the-shelf storage system that was continuously breaking down.”

“Intransa’s affordable IP 2000 system will allow us to set up a low-cost, fully-featured IP-based SAN for our faculty’s research needs, allowing us to allocate precious funds to other research projects,” said Tim Rolston, Windows systems manager for University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and Arts.

Enterprise Level Features at an Entry Level Price

Simplicity, low-cost of deployment and the ability to use existing IP infrastructure has fueled the growth of the iSCSI market. Intransa’s IP2000 provides a more inexpensive way than ever before to implement an iSCSI SAN without compromising availability or performance. The IP2000 can be removed from its packaging, configured and operational in less than 30 minutes. The IP2000 is extremely scalable, offering up to 6TB of on-board storage with optional management by Intransa StorControl software. With Intransa StorControl software the IP2000 has the ability to create larger pools of storage and enjoy the performance benefits of striping to volumes across multiple IP2000s. As a performance leader in its class each IP2000 delivers 335 MB per second throughput and nearly 100,000 IOPs.

The Intransa IP2000 provides:

“Intransa offers the most scalable, modular IP products on the market today, and with the availability of the IP2000, scalable IP SANs are more accessible than ever before to the SMB market,” said Doug Rainbolt, Vice President, Intransa. “With today’s announcement, we provide more choice than ever for customers; allowing them to be freed from the one-product vendors. Customers can pick what is right for them and know that Intransa will scale with them as their needs change, regardless of where they start.”

Availability

The IP2000 is now available for purchase.

About Intransa

Intransa, Inc. is the leading innovator of shared, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions for video and IT storage. 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.

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.

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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