Intransa Joins Green Grid Consortium; Promotes Awareness of Energy Efficient Network and Data Storage Environments with Scalable IP SAN
SAN JOSE, California — September 6, 2007
Intransa, the global leader of scalable, network-centric IP storage solutions, today announced that it has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of IT professionals seeking to lower the overall power consumption of data centers around the globe by developing best practices for improving energy consumption.
“In the future, data center managers can expect to see a large percentage of their total budget attributed to energy consumption,” said Jeff Whitney, vice president, Intransa, and company representative to The Green Grid. “Intransa's products are designed to increase performance while maintaining reliability and reducing implementation costs and reducing energy consumption is an important priority.”
The average installed SAN storage capacity in Fortune 1000 organizations increased from 138 terabytes (Tb) in 2004 to more than 680Tb in October, 2006. The study conducted by InfoPro calculated that the amount of data expected to be stored and managed by Fortune 1000 companies will reach 8 petabytes by 2009. Data storage stored will grow at a rate of 230 percent and energy consumption costs will grow as well.
Intransa IP storage systems also deploy proven SATA drive technology, which consume about 50 percent of the power of equivalent FC drives per Tb, and offer a denser and higher capacity format that further reduces floor space, heating and cooling needs by up to 70 percent. Intransa IP solutions cost about a third of that of comparable FC SAN.
“While our solutions offer many advantages over legacy storage solutions, we aren't done yet,” continued Whitney. “Our product and feature roadmaps for the rest of 2007 and for the next several years envision continued achievements toward reducing energy consumption, and we look forward to The Green Grid and it's membership working with us to achieve those goals for the IT industry overall.”
Intransa was one of the first designers of a network IP SAN and its StorStac System provide the latest technological innovations. Intransa IP network storage solutions scale from four to 1,000Tb and offer 1, 2 and 10GbE interface support with scalable performance that can be modularly grown as customer requirements change for up to 40Gb throughput. This combination of independently scalable performance and capacity is unique in the storage industry, and as a result Intransa solutions have been sold around the world for large scale consolidation projects and other IT implementations since first shipments began in 2003. With the addition of the advanced DynaStac Thin Provisioning application earlier this year, Intransa customers are able to drive maximum storage utilization, further reducing the “fat provisioning” consumption and sprawl of earlier storage solutions.
Intransa's StorStac IP SAN is the first and only solution certified by Microsoft through the ESRP program so far, with an 11,000 user Exchange 2007 configuration that delivered superior performance and high availability that previously was available only through more expensive and high consuming FC SAN solutions. Intransa solutions are also certified for VMware virtualization and consolidation implementations.
Intransa's scalable IP network storage solutions will be on display at several public venues, starting with Computer World's Infrastructure Management World conference in Scottsdale, Arizona from September 10-12, and at VMworld with StorAlliance Technology Partner Neterion in San Francisco, California from September 11-13. For video surveillance and security customers, Intransa is a sponsor of the ISC East conference in New York, September 11-12 in the Security Operations Center pavilion.
About The Green Grid
The Green Grid is open to any and all IT industry professionals with an interest in addressing global energy consumption issues, particularly datacenter managers and IT operations executives. More information can be found at: www.thegreengrid.org.
About Intransa
Intransa, Inc. delivers installer-ready server and storage infrastructure platforms, purpose-built for the demands of physical security. Our ground-breaking technology lowers cost and eliminates the complexity and ongoing support challenges of integrating commodity servers and storage, while slashing energy consumption and increasing reliability. Customers also leverage our expertise, learned through the installation and support of thousands of our platforms in demanding physical security projects, with our unmatched services and support.
We've been named a Security Industry Association's New Product Showcase winner, a Homeland Security Award recipient, New Product of the Year at ASIS International in 2009 and 2011, and a Top 30 Technology Innovation of 2009.
Our customers deploy our optimized infrastructure platforms for their physical security needs across retail, public safety, gaming and hospitality, corrections, financial services, transportation, hospitals and medical centers, managed service providers, manufacturers, Native American organizations, colleges and school districts, utilities, and a variety of municipal, county, state and federal government users.
For more information about Intransa infrastructure platforms and services, or to locate an authorized distributor or certified integrator or dealer around the world, please visit us at www.intransa.com or www.intransablog.com.
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