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. the VideoAppliance™ Company, delivers simple and scalable installer-ready appliances, purpose-built for the demands of physical security and industrial video. Intransa VideoAppliance™ sets itself up automatically in under 5 minutes, and is ready for activation of video management software from the leaders in the industry. Our ground-breaking technology eliminates the complexity, cost and ongoing support challenge of integrating commodity servers, storage and hardware, replacing them two-for-one with scalable appliances. 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.
Our patented Video Data Management and Retention™ (VDMR) technology benefits customers worldwide in retail, public safety, gaming and hospitality, corrections, finance, ports 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 municipal, county, state and federal government users.
Intransa VideoAppliance™ platforms are jointly certified with the vendors of leading video management systems, including Axis Communications, Canon, Exacq Technologies, Genetec, JDS Digital Security Systems, LenSec, 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.
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.
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