Intransa Announces industry's First 10 GbE Certified IP Storage Program
Ensures IHV and ISV products optimized for ultimate 10GbE performance
SAN JOSE, California — May 8, 2007
Intransa, the global leader of scalable, network-centric IP storage solutions, today announced the industry's first certification program to enable ISVs to test, tune and certify applications with the latest scalable, enterprise 10 GbE storage solutions.
“As the demand builds for faster and less expensive IP storage in the enterprise so does the need to ensure that customers get the best performance out of their applications,” said Jeff Whitney, vice president of marketing for Intransa. “As the first to offer a truly scalable IP network storage solution with 10 GbE, it was only to be expected that our customers and StorAlliance partners would ask Intransa for a certification program. With the implementation of 10 GbE our customers will now be assured that their experience is the best it can be.”
“It will take some catch-up on the part of OS, software and hardware vendors to take full advantage of the 10 GbE speed,” said Douglas F. Gibbs, PhD, pathology bioinformatics manager at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who tested an Intransa StorStac System 10GbE PCU100 configuration during the beta trials. “Many of our initial test scenarios revealed that factors other than the Intransa system were rate-limiting in the tests.” He indicated that applications and even the Windows 2003 OS required tweaking in order to handle 10 GbE capabilities.
Vendors who enter the Intransa StorAlliance10 GbE Certified IP Storage Program are able to leverage Intransa's extensive experience with IP networked storage, and perform testing in the company's StorAlliance Certification Lab in San Jose, California. Testing includes network, storage and application tuning modules that allow participants to collect and analyze I/O traces, identify performance bottlenecks for elimination, code enhancement suggestions and assistance with any needed retesting. StorAlliance participants can display the “Intransa 10GbE Certified for IP Storage” logo on their website and marketing materials upon successful completion of the certification program.
“We are seeing rising interest in 10 GbE and iSCSI,” said Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Intransa is focusing heavily on bandwidth intensive applications and 10 GbE will raise the level of performance and scalability for the markets they are going after. The certification program is an example of their strong commitment to 10 GbE and the realization that in order for solutions to run seamlessly and optimally, you need to address 10 GbE environments holistically.”
Several software vendors, members of the Intransa StorAlliance Technology Partner Program, agree. “We're already seeing the value of Intransa's 10 GbE PCU100 system in terms of increased performance,” said Bill Reed, vice president of business development and co-founder for ABREVITY, the technology leader in Information Classification and Management (ICM). “Intransa's systems are the fastest system we've tested for file system scanning, metadata extraction, report generation and tiered data migration. Customers with more than 25 terabytes of data will see immediate performance gains with 10GbE for tiered storage, legal discovery, security and compliance initiatives. ABREVITY is proud to be the first ISV partner to complete the Intransa 10 GbE IP SAN Certification Program.”
Another StorAlliance program member is Double-Take® Software. "The need for 10 GbE IP storage at the enterprise level is clear. With the increased number of remote offices and significant fan-in requirements, having a storage system that can scale with the data from many remote offices at one time is a tremendous asset," said Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering from Double-Take® Software, a Microsoft Gold Partner and established leader in business continuity. "We are truly excited to be part of this new Certification program."
Longtime StorAlliance partner Sanbolic, Inc. is also participating in the program. “In the video surveillance market, speed of data capture is a critical element. Intransa's StorStac 10 GbE system brings a significant solution to that problem,” said Momchil Michailov, CEO of Sanbolic, Inc., both a Microsoft Partner and recognized leader in video surveillance file systems. “Sanbolic is delighted to be part of this certification program endorsing integration of our file system.”
“As enterprises address the pressing needs to consolidate and better manage data protection in their remote offices, having the highest possible performance in the central repository system is a critical component in providing timely backup and recovery services for their business-critical remote applications,” said Richard Vining from FilesX, a leading provider of continuous, lights-out data protection solutions for remote offices. “Intransa is delivering this performance with their leadership in 10 GbE IP storage, and we are truly excited to be part of this new certification program.”
The 10 GbE IP Storage Certification program isn't just for ISVs, however. Several key hardware vendors are also participants. “Neterion is proud to be a member of Intransa's best-in-class StorAlliance 10 GbE IP Storage Certification Program,” stated Philippe Levy, vice president of marketing at Neterion. “Neterion is the leader in 10 GbE adapters and this announcement extends our leadership to the IP SAN market, with a solution that can support up to 1 petabyte of storage. The StorAlliance program guarantees that Neterion's Xframe® iSCSI “initiator” HBAs are fully compatible with Intransa's Performance Controller Units (PCU). Our participation in StorAlliance is the logical next step as Intransa includes Neterion's Xframe® V-NIC™ adapters as iSCSI “target” HBAs in the StorStac System PCU100.”
Global powerhouse Fujitsu is another member of the 10 GbE IP Storage Certification Program. “The Fujitsu XG2000™ was not only tested and certified by Intransa but was integral to all of the customer beta systems that tried out 10 GbE in their own environments,” said Vic Herring, Senior Director, New Products Group, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. “With the scalable performance and capacity of the Intransa IP storage StorStac System, we think customers in markets such as digital entertainment, post production and video editing will really benefit from this program, since they will know their suppliers can get optimum performance out of their 10 GbE environments.”
Intransa StorStac Systems support 1, 2 and 10 GbE interfaces, allowing customers to select the best mix of performance and cost for their own specific needs. Since 2003, more than one hundred customers have implemented Intransa solutions for their ability to independently scale performance and availability by adding storage controllers and capacity by simply increasing the number of storage enclosures. Intransa's StorStac systems are architected to scale from a few terabytes up to a petabyte of RAID-protected IP storage in a single system.
“10 GbE for enterprise storage is here,” commented Whitney. “Only with a 10 GbE Certified for IP Storage logo can customers be sure to get the best out their entire storage solution.”
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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