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Server & Storage Consolidation
- 1/3rd the price of FC SAN with comparable performance and reliability
- All IP 10Gb solutions Microsoft certified for up to 11,000 users
- VMware certified configurations for server & storage consolidation projects
- Advanced DynaStac thin provisioning for optimum storage utilization and performance
- Start as small as 4TB, yet grow as your needs change up to 1,500TB
- Reduce CAPEX and OPEX with high density, lower power SATA drives (50% of the power consumption of FC drives/TB) and up to 70% reduction of floor space, for truly green IT
Server and Storage Consolidation solutions from Intransa are proven, high performance and affordable. In many customer environments, the need to "go green" is of critical importance, and consolidation is a major step toward making that commitment happen.
Intransa Server and Storage Consolidation Solutions with VMware, for example, scale from 4 to 1,500TB of RAID-protected storage, yet offer an easy-to-afford, pay-as-you-grow model at a fraction of the cost of FC SAN. After all, what is the point of consolidating, if the cost of the infrastructure outweighs the potential savings?
If you can get the same performance and reliability as FC SAN, in a customer-proven IP SAN solution that offers one third the price, why wouldn't you?
Intransa with VMware solutions, delivered by our StorPartner Channel Partner Program members around the world, have many benefits to IT customers looking to go green... or save a little financial "green" as well.
Use DynaStac Advanced Thin Provisioning For CAPEX and OPEX Savings
Integrated into the StorStac OS, Intransa's DynaStac Thin Provisioning feature is an advance, easy way to dynamically pool and allocate storage resources among multiple applications, when you need it. Eliminate the "fat provisioning" of legacy storage systems... add storage when you need it, as you need it.
Consolidate Servers and Increase Operation Efficiency and Reliability
Reduce hardware, power, cooling and floor space requirements by up to 70% while improving service levels with Intransa IP storage
Minimize Downtime and Ensure Business Continuity
Reduce downtime by making high availability and disaster recovery solutions more cost-effective, simpler, and more reliable
Streamline Software Development and Testing
Create, link and clone virtual machines for simplified development and testing of multi-tiered applications, reducing time to deployment
Simplify your IT Environment, Reducing Cost
Reduce the complexity of your IT environment with matching cost reduction, yet without sacrificing performance or scalability
Manage & Protect Enterprise Desktop Computers
Implement virtualization as a desktop management solution and provide a solid foundation to deploy trusted and secure desktops to any client, be it a PC or thin client device.
Intransa with VMware solutions go a step further, by leveraging our advanced DynaStac Thin Provisioning option, included in all StorStac systems, to...
- Gain the maximum utilization of all of your storage, and eliminate over-provisioning and waste
- Dramatically reduce the amount of capacity needed, typically dropping to as little as 1TB of capacity for every 2 or 3TB required for traditional "fat provisioned" storage
- Reduce storage administration tasks, effort and time thanks to the integrated, 4th generation Intransa Graphical User Interface (GUI) and accompanying Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Leverage Intransa's customer-proven IP SAN technology, at about one third the cost of FC SAN without a performance penalty by selecting 1, 2 or 10GbE interfaces; 10GbE gains the performance equivalent of even the latest, 4Gb FC interface at a fraction of the price
- Leverage your existing Data Protection investment, with full interoperability with existing backup scripts and procedures, including integration with VSS/VDS ported directly from existing backup methodologies
- Leverage direct VM to storage connectivity, and avoid ESX reconfiguration
- Avoid the challenges of "manual migration" required by direct attached storage (DAS) and FC SAN-based consolidation projects. Simply reallocate storage via the DynaStac thin client application when needs change... without changing any physical connections
By leveraging our StorAlliance Technology Program member ISV and IHV partners, Intransa storage can support integrated NAS and SAN environments and clustered file systems, as well as native SAN. Other StorAlliance Technology partners help deliver highly integrated disk-to-disk (D2D) backup and recovery, virtual tape library, continuous data protection (CDP), information lifecycle management (ILM), mirroring, replication, and many other applications as needed.
The Intransa architecture used in our StorStac system and IP storage lines leverage our proven, IP-based infrastructure solutions to deliver independent scalability and capacity growth with high availability, yet affordably with true ease-of-use built in. With our integrated StorStac GUI Management System, Intransa solutions provide seamless, easy-to-use management that scales as your needs grow, without the cost and complexity of legacy solutions. And our StorAlliance technology partners deliver best-in-class solutions as part of a comprehensive answer to storage consolidation needs, integrated into the Intransa solution.
Intransa is a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner program.
DynaStac Advanced Thin Provisioning
Intransa's advanced DynStac Thin Provisioning software is included in all StorStac System solutions. DynaStac ensures that customers obtain the maximum performance and usage from their deployed storage, without having to resort to the "fat provisioning" common in IT data centers today. DynaStac delivers on the promise of green IT, ensuring Intransa StorStac solutions are provisioned when needed, for maximum performance and utilization of all storage configured in the IP network storage system. Share storage resources, when needed, among multiple applications.