Intransa Achieves Enterprise Operational Compatibility with VMWare Infrastructure
SAN JOSE, California — September 11, 2007
Intransa, the global leader of scalable, network-centric IP storage solutions, today announced that its StorStac System has been certified with VMware Infrastructure. As part of the certification program, Intransa is listed in the SAN Compatibility Guide for VMware ESX Server under the IP SAN section. The SAN Compatibility guide is the hardware compatibility list (HCL) for VMware ESX Server. As a leader in IP SAN enterprise storage with 1GbE, 2GbE and 10GbE interfaces, VMware certification extends Intransa's commitment to providing customers with interoperable and open SAN technology.
Intransa has completed compatibility certification proving that VMware virtual machines can utilize storage capacity on Intransa's PCU20 in addition to providing storage for the virtual machines hosted on VMware ESX Server hosts. Since Intransa IP SAN systems affordably scale from 4 to 1,000 terabytes of RAID-protected storage, and can leverage the company's recently released DynaStac Thin Provisioning, this is an important announcement for customers looking to consolidate.
“VMware is thrilled to include Intransa as part of an elite group of IP SAN storage providers qualified for enterprise operations with VMware Infrastructure,” said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. “VMware has paved the way in certifying support for enterprise systems and storage, and Intransa's StorStac PCU20 augment VMware Infrastructure for midrange and enterprise operations.”
The use of Intransa's StorStac PCU20 and VMware Infrastructure enables customers to take advantage of VMware Infrastructure features such as clustering and high-availability failover. In addition, customers can migrate virtual machines from one physical machine to another without powering down or suspending the virtual machine.
While FC SAN solutions require customers to physically migrate data and storage manually when deploying, Intransa IP SAN provides a logical direct connection between the application and the storage, and changes need only be made via the 4th generation Intransa StorManager software. Existing data protection investments are also leveraged, since the Intransa IP SAN solution interoperates with existing backup scripts and procedures. Intransa solutions provide full integration with VSS/VDS ported directly from existing backup methodologies.
The Intransa IP SAN solution also has a number of advantages over FC SAN when it comes to consolidation, since SATA drives use about 50 percent of the power per TB of FC drives and provide high density with a reduced footprint. With full RAID support and fault tolerance, redundant and field replaceable components, users are able to get all of the dependability plus additional scalability for a fraction of the price of FC SAN.
“Certification allows us to provide our customers with the verified capability to combine infrastructure virtualization software from VMware with IP SAN storage virtualization from Intransa,” said Jeff Whitney, vice president of marketing, Intransa. “It gives customers additional flexibility and choice as well as the opportunity to dramatically reduce costs, minimize migration downtime and increase flexibility while easing their management burden. And when the maximum storage utilization possible with our advanced DynaStac Thin Provisioning feature and the low power and high density of our drives are figured in, green IT becomes much more of a reality for our customers.”
Intransa has been a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner program since 2006. Intransa's open IP SAN and advanced SAN technology combined with VMware Infrastructure offers customers virtualized, highly available and completely scalable server and storage environments, while allowing customers to reduce overall IT costs and implement server consolidation strategies.
Intransa's scalable IP SAN solutions are available from StorPartner Channel Partner Program members worldwide.
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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