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INTRANSA OPENS ISRAEL OFFICE, SIGNS DISTRIBUTION DEAL W/One1

Intransa announced that it is opening its office in Israel and has appointed Efy Magdasy as director of Business Development. The company also announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with One1 Systems, a leading provider of information technology in Israel.

This relationship will mutually enable One1 Systems and Intransa to strive for a market leadership position in the growing IP SAN storage solutions segment in Israel. One1 Systems will continue to collaborate with other Intransa partners in Israel to provide best support to existing customers and newly developed businesses.

Intransa leads the IP SAN market by delivering the industry's most comprehensive suite of IP SAN solutions to meet the needs of small, mid-tier, and enterprise-class customers alike. The Intransa IP storage offering is based on the company's IP SAN IntraStor architecture, a three tiered architecture that allows for independent capacity and performance scaling; and the StorControl management software. Using Intransa's StorControl software, IT administrators can easily add an additional storage controller or disk enclosure without impacting performance or system availability.

"One1 Systems is excited to be selected as an exclusive distributor of Intransa's storage products in Israel," Adi Eyal, managing director of One1 Systems. "Given the growing demand for such products in this region we are confident of being the best choice for our customers in meeting their storage needs."

"We are excited at Efy joining us and bringing with him an in depth understanding of the storage market and also we could not have picked a better organization then One1 Systems to be our strategic partner," Avi Katz, president and CEO of Intransa. "This relationship is a good example of how Intransa is working with partners to help us grow at a rapid pace on a global basis. Intransa's IP SAN IP3000 and IP5500 introduce a sophisticated set of products that enable customers to easily add storage capacity from 2 to over 60 TB. These products allow users to consolidate their e-mail applications, databases, backup and restore applications and other mission-critical data management and disaster recovery applications."