Soka University Improves Application Performance and Sustains IT and Facility Growth with Flexible Intransa IP SAN; Improved Performance, Flexibility and Reduction in Cost Lead University to Choose IP Over Fibre Channel Solution

Business Wire, Feb 7, 2006

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric, IP storage solutions today announced that Soka University of America (SUA), a private four-year liberal arts college located in south Orange County, California, has selected Intransa's IP SAN to dynamically scale, manage and provide provisioned storage resources to systems and applications across its campus IP network. The Intransa IP SAN provides centralized storage that meets the university's critical storage and backup requirements. The reduced implementation costs and the inherent flexibility of the IP SAN empowered SUA's IT department to be a contributor rather than an inhibitor to the university's facility and course growth.

In addition to providing state of the art networking technology to the campus, SUA's IT department enabled the university to rely on technology to provide an open and innovative learning environment for its students by offering data intensive courses, the latest technology in its research labs, and support for student and faculty email and file management. Recognizing that neither DAS nor Fibre Channel implementations could be as efficiently scaled or provide the longevity and reliability that the university required to maintain current and future system demands, it chose instead to implement a future-proof IP alternative at a more cost-efficient price without sacrificing performance. With the aim of maintaining an internal reputation for excellence and supporting a constantly growing student body and faculty, the university needed a storage network that was equipped to adequately support the university's dynamic IT needs.

"With the previous system I constantly found myself having to make concessions and battling with a compromised ability to accommodate administrators' requests and that slowed everything down," said Orr Orovan, SUA's senior systems administrator. "With the Intransa IP SAN the university can progress on time. When the administration wants to implement a new program we don't have to wait for storage capacity to free up or a budget request to be passed. Our infrastructure is ready and we can accommodate requests without compromise."

The flexibility of the Intransa IP storage solution allows SUA to provision storage resources across the network; add storage capacity on-demand to better meet its application needs; and make the other aspects of its IT network more efficient including the process of migrating to a disk-to-disk backup system and expanding with an email archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange.

"Intransa SANs provide the flexibility that customers require when creating reliable, self-managing, scalable storage that can respond and change to user demand," said Doug Rainbolt, vice-president of marketing, Intransa. "Our IP SANs are specially designed for high availability and ease-of-use in a wide range of 'institution-critical' applications used in both academic institutions and large public sector organizations."

Intransa's data-center proven IP5500 is modular, allowing for high availability and flexibility in applications supporting mission-important information, such as email, databases, compliance data, server consolidation, and companies needing ILM capabilities.

About Intransa

Intransa is the innovator of network-centric IP SAN solutions that are easy to use, extremely scalable and offer the right match in performance and data protection to customer's applications. As the only provider of true IP network-centric SAN solutions, Intransa simplifies, enables and unleashes the use of intelligent IP technology for both small and large enterprises. Based on a common management framework with built-in investment protection, Intransa's solutions leverage the cost and performance advantages of Ethernet and the universal, dynamic and intuitive aspect of IP networks. Intransa's solutions address the issues of direct attached storage, making it easy and cost effective for the masses using volume servers to take advantage of shared storage and immediately realize dramatic improvement in storage utilization.

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices world-wide, Intransa was recently chosen as one of Red Herring's 100 hottest private companies in North America. For more information visit www.intransa.com.