IP Storage Innovator, Intransa, Receives New Round of Funding
Guggenheim Venture Partners major investor in 10GbE IP storage leader
SAN JOSE, California — November 13, 2006
Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric IP storage solutions, today announced a major new investment round led by Guggenheim Venture Partners. Also participating are Menlo Ventures and U.S. Venture Partners.
“Intransa's leadership in scalable, cost effective and easy-to-manage IP storage is well known,” said F. Javier Fernandez, Ph.D. Managing Director, at Guggenheim Venture Partners, based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. “And we think that their latest breakthrough in storage networking technology, which Intransa will be introducing over the coming months, represents a solution that will enable customers to experience a new level of performance not available from any other storage vendor.”
Intransa's newest storage technology will be on display at the Super Computing (SC06) International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, to be held November 11-17 in Tampa, Florida. The company will be showing off its unprecedented 20Gb backplane for the first time, featuring the dual, active-active 10GbE interconnects. With this advanced capability, Intransa continues to demonstrate its scalability and leadership in the growing IP storage market and dominance of the emerging 10GbE market.
“Intransa's scalable IP storage solutions are leading the way for many companies to cost effectively move from direct attached storage and gain built-in investment protection,” commented Thomas Alexander, CEO of Intransa. “This new round of funding led by Guggenheim Venture Partners allows us to accelerate deployment of our 10GbE storage solutions and better meet the needs of customers around the world who require affordable, scalable and easy-to-deploy and manage storage solutions.”
Overall, Intransa continues to lead the shift in the storage industry towards IP. With more than 100% year-over-year sales growth, Intransa has shipped over 1.3 petabytes to customers worldwide. The company's product portfolio, software partnerships and key distribution agreements combine to unleash the use of intelligent IP technology. Intransa's customers include a wide range of verticals and markets such as aerospace, computer services, digital entertainment, education, financial services, geosciences, government, human resources, life sciences, manufacturing, telecommunications, and transportation.
Guggenheim Venture Partners' Fernandez agrees. “Intransa's customers will benefit from the unmatched performance delivered by the 20Gb backplane. The company now offers not only the fastest and most scalable storage technology to the marketplace, but more importantly that technology forms the basis of powerful business solutions to real world problems.”
Intransa products and solutions are available from the company's direct sales force, OEM partners, and IntraStar Partner systems integrators worldwide.
About Guggenheim Venture Partners
Guggenheim Venture Partners is a subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners Partners, LLC, a global diversified financial services firm with wealth management, capital markets, investment management and proprietary investing businesses. Guggenheim Partners' are an elite mix of individuals, family office, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, pension plans, and other institutions that together have entrusted Guggenheim with supervision of more than $110 billion assets. Office locations include New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Houston, London, Hong Kong and Geneva. Additional information can be found at: www.guggenheimpartners.com
About Intransa
Intransa, Inc. the VideoAppliance Company®, delivers simple and scalable installer-ready appliances, featuring patented optimization technology, purpose-built for physical security and industrial video needs. Each Intransa VideoAppliance™ sets up automatically, out of the box, in just minutes. This ground-breaking technology eliminates the complexity, cost and ongoing support challenge of integrating commodity servers, storage and hardware with video management systems and other physical security solutions. That's why Intransa VideoAppliance was named a 2009 New Product of the Year at ASIS International, and also one of the Top 30 Technology Innovations of 2009.
Intransa VideoAppliance™ platforms are jointly certified with the vendors of leading video management systems, including Axis Communications, Exacq Technologies, Genetec, JDS Digital Security Systems, March Networks, Milestone Systems, Pelco, On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc. (OnSSI), Salient Systems, TimeSight Systems, videoNEXT and VideoProtein. The Intransa Technology Labs also ensures risk-free integration with a wide range of DVRs, NVRs, surveillance cameras, access control solutions, physical security information managers, life safety, video analytics, network intercom, authentication, biometrics, imaging and other physical security applications.
Our patented Video Data Management and Retention™ (VDMR) technology has benefited customers worldwide in retail, public safety and law enforcement, municipal government, gaming and hospitality, corrections, finance, transportation centers and airports, hospitals and medical centers, managed service providers, transit authorities, manufacturers, Native American organizations, colleges and school districts, utilities and resource companies, and a wide variety of government users.
Intransa supports industry standards and believes in the benefits of green technology. We are members and/or supporters of the Security Industry Association, the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) International, the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF), the Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA), the American Correctional Association, the National Retail Federation, US Green Building Council and its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, The Green Grid consortium for advancing energy efficiency in computing ecosystems, and the Storage Networking Industry Association and are a founding member of its Green Storage Initiative.
For more information about Intransa, to locate an authorized distributor or certified integrator or dealer around the world, please visit us at www.intransa.com or www.videoappliance.com.
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