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INTRANSA SELECTED BY SOKA UNIVERSITY TO DEPLOY IP SAN

Intransa has been selected by Soka to deploy an IP storage area network (SAN) to triple storage capacity and simplify data management under a single solution. Soka chose Intransa's IP SAN system over competitive solutions because of its patented, modular approach that independently scales performance and capacity based on business requirements. The IP5500 storage system, powered by Intransa's StorControl software, will consolidate Soka's direct attached storage (DAS) environment to seamlessly scale and manage over 12 TBs of information.

"After testing several IP SAN solutions, we chose Intransa because of its modular architecture, superior performance and bottom line cost savings," said Saeed Fakhriravari, director of information technology at Soka University. "Intransa's storage system allows us to leverage our existing Ethernet infrastructure and gives us the flexibility to scale both capacity and performance as we need it."

In addition to Soka, leading universities including University of Miami, Virginia Tech, and Oakland University have also standardized on the Intransa IP SAN product family, which represents a new generation of networked storage systems. Intransa's storage products are ideally suited for the highereducation market providing the following bottom-line benefits:

• Ability to leverage existing Gb Ethernet (GigE) infrastructure and 10 G Ethernet backbone for data-intensive research without having to introduce an expensive, proprietary Fibre Channel solution into the equation.

• Consolidate storage and server resources and centralize management from a single enterprise data center, reducing administrative costs by 75 percent over any other storage system on the market.

• Industry's only modular architecture that provides complete flexibility to add performance and/or capacity on the fly as needed.

• Provides high-end system availability to keep pace with 24x7 information requirements of research facilities, faculty and students.

• Supports a wide range of applications across the extended campus and runs seamlessly, eliminating the need to modify the storage network or computing environment.

Soka will leverage the Intransa IP5500 storage system to consolidate its Microsoft Exchange server farm and significantly increase file utilization and throughput. Intransa's storage systems are ideally suited for demanding Microsoft applications such as Exchange or SQL Server for block storage -- as part of an elegant, cost-effective IP-based solution. Intransa's IP SAN simplifies off-site backup and is ideally suited for multi-TB storage consolidation in highly distributed environments. Soka will benefit from guaranteed performance and availability while reducing their storage costs by offloading storage management tasks and paying only for the capacity they need.

"Customers are demanding highly scalable IP SAN solutions to manage escalating storage requirements," said Tim Zimmerman, vice president enterprise storage at Synegi. "We focus on delivering storage solutions that provide significant value for our customers. Intransa's IP storage systems provide reliability, performance and scalability, which make them a compelling choice for users that want storage-on-demand solutions to reduce cost of ownership and accelerate the return on their IT investment."

"We're delighted with the rapid customer adoption and momentum Intransa has established with leading channel partners such as Synegi," said John Noellert, vice president of North America Sales for Intransa. "Our second-generation IP storage systems are more cost-effective and easier to manage than any Fibre Channel, or IP SAN solution available making this a great fit for our University customers. Companies of every size require dependable storage that is safe, simple to scale, and takes advantage of the existing Ethernet infrastructure already in place. Intransa does just that. We provide storage for your network, not another network for your storage."