Intransa Tapped by AIT Worldwide Logistics to Manage and Provision Storage
Global Transportation and Shipping Company Waves Goodbye to Paper Documents as It Leverages IP SAN Solution, Versus Optical Storage, to Save Money
SAN JOSE, California — May 15, 2006
Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric, IP storage solutions, today announced the addition of AIT Worldwide Logistics Inc. to its list of top-tier customers. AIT Worldwide Logistics selected Intransa’s IP SAN platform to provide its end-users with on-demand storage resources, allowing them the ability to provision and manage their own storage, reducing the reliance on IT staff. Intransa‘s easy-to-use IP SAN fully supports AIT’s enterprise content management (ECM) solution, allowing images to be scanned, archived and digitized easily and reliably. In addition, the Intransa IP SAN allows the Information Systems (IS) team to automatically replicate and seamlessly backup all documents in case of natural disaster or other potential causes of data loss.
AIT Worldwide Logistics, a global transportation and shipping company, manages and tracks cargo shipments for customers worldwide. The previous use of hard copies of delivery receipts, customer invoices and airway bills slowed billing cycles by delaying invoices and payments received from customers. The company, reengineering its processes, chose to reduce its reliance on paper and rely instead on digital media. AIT implemented an ECM solution to centralize images in a document archival database, making it easier to retrieve images on-demand. To support this shift, a flexible storage environment that could support streamlined business processes and grow with the business was a necessity.
A growing business and a mountain of paperwork motivated AIT to implement ECM software and replace its optical storage solution with an IP-SAN from Intransa. The addition allowed the IS team to execute backups over an IP network contributing to tremendous gains in IS productivity. This allowed the IS team to reduce billing time, provision resources and meet business demand without having to worry about physical storage. Now, every document created by the company since its inception, can be archived on the system eliminating the need for off-site storage of older or less mission-critical data. And, as AIT’s needs grow, and the ECM software requires more capacity, scaling can be achieved by simply adding more disk enclosures to the IP SAN, without disruption. For AIT’s customer service representatives, hundreds of hours have been saved in document retrieval allowing them to better serve their customers and the possibility for error has been greatly reduced.
“The Intransa IP SAN solution not only saves time for us, the IS staff, but it streamlines our business and keeps things moving forward as the business dictates rather than as IS dictates,” said Greg Contreras, customer automation manager, AIT. “Since we installed the Intransa solution I haven't had to manage it at all, and best of all end-users are able to provision resources and manage the storage on their own without having to involve IS.”
AIT deployed two Intransa IP3000 storage controllers and four disk enclosures giving the organization eight terabytes of flexible storage capacity that could be carved up by the ECM software as needed. In addition to providing the storage support for an ECM software solution, the IP3000 is ideally suited for email archiving, server consolidation, disk-to-disk back up, and similar applications.
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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