Intransa Tapped by AIT Worldwide Logistics to Manage and Provision Storage; Global Transportation and Shipping Company Waves Goodbye to Paper Documents as It Leverages IP SAN Solution, Versus Optical Storage, to Save Money

Business Wire, May 15, 2006

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric, IP storage solutions, today announced the addition of AIT Worldwide Logistics Inc. to its list of top-tier customers. AIT Worldwide Logistics selected Intransa's IP SAN platform to provide its end-users with on-demand storage resources, allowing them the ability to provision and manage their own storage, reducing the reliance on IT staff. Intransa's easy-to-use IP SAN fully supports AIT's enterprise content management (ECM) solution, allowing images to be scanned, archived and digitized easily and reliably. In addition, the Intransa IP SAN allows the Information Systems (IS) team to automatically replicate and seamlessly backup all documents in case of natural disaster or other potential causes of data loss.

AIT Worldwide Logistics, a global transportation and shipping company, manages and tracks cargo shipments for customers worldwide. The previous use of hard copies of delivery receipts, customer invoices and airway bills slowed billing cycles by delaying invoices and payments received from customers. The company, reengineering its processes, chose to reduce its reliance on paper and rely instead on digital media. AIT implemented an ECM solution to centralize images in a document archival database, making it easier to retrieve images on-demand. To support this shift, a flexible storage environment that could support streamlined business processes and grow with the business was a necessity.

A growing business and a mountain of paperwork motivated AIT to implement ECM software and replace its optical storage solution with an IP-SAN from Intransa. The addition allowed the IS team to execute backups over an IP network contributing to tremendous gains in IS productivity. This allowed the IS team to reduce billing time, provision resources and meet business demand without having to worry about physical storage. Now, every document created by the company since its inception, can be archived on the system eliminating the need for off-site storage of older or less mission-critical data. And, as AIT's needs grow, and the ECM software requires more capacity, scaling can be achieved by simply adding more disk enclosures to the IP SAN, without disruption. For AIT's customer service representatives, hundreds of hours have been saved in document retrieval, allowing them to better serve their customers, and the possibility for error has been greatly reduced.

"The Intransa IP SAN solution not only saves time for us, the IS staff, but it streamlines our business and keeps things moving forward as the business dictates rather than as IS dictates," said Greg Contreras, customer automation manager, AIT. "Since we installed the Intransa solution I haven't had to manage it at all, and best of all end-users are able to provision resources and manage the storage on their own without having to involve IS."

AIT deployed two Intransa IP3000 storage controllers and four disk enclosures, giving the organization eight terabytes of flexible storage capacity that could be carved up by the ECM software as needed. In addition to providing the storage support for an ECM software solution, the IP3000 is ideally suited for email archiving, server consolidation, disk-to-disk back up, and similar applications.

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.