Data center managers, in the future, can expect to see a large percentage of their total budget attributed to energy consumption, Intransa of San Jose, California said. Intransa's products are designed to increase performance, while maintaining reliability and reducing implementation costs and reducing energy consumption is an important priority, the company said.
Intransa delivers independently scalable performance and capacity with high availability, outstanding price/performance, and proven ease of use, the company said. Intransa is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), The Green Grid, and the Security Industry Association (SIA), as well as a member of vendor programs, such as the VMware Technology Alliance Program and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the company added.
The Green Grid is chartered to develop meaningful, platform-neutral standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve energy efficient performance of global data centers. Membership to The Green Grid is open to those companies and IT professionals with an interest in helping to support the movement to improve data center power consumption, and improve overall efficiency.
The average installed SAN (storage area network) storage capacity in organizations has increased from 138 TB (terabytes) in 2004 to more than 680 TB in October, 2006, Intransa said. The study conducted by The InfoPro calculated that the amount of data expected to be stored and managed by companies will reach 8 petabytes (PB) by 2009. Data storage stored will grow at a rate of 230 percent and energy consumption costs will grow as well, the company said.
Intransa IP storage systems also deploy proven SATA (Serial-ATA) drive technology, which consume about 50 percent of the power of equivalent Fibre Channel drives per TB, and offer a denser and higher capacity format that further reduces floor space, heating and cooling needs by up to 70 percent, Intransa said. Intransa IP solutions cost about a third of that of comparable Fibre Channel SAN, the company said.
Intransa’s solutions offer many advantages over legacy storage solutions, the company said. The company’s product and feature roadmaps for the rest of the year, and for the next several years are geared towards reducing energy consumption, and Intransa looks forward to The Green Grid, and its membership to achieve those goals for the IT industry overall, the company added.
Intransa IP network storage solutions scale from four to 1,000 TB, and offer 1, 2 and 10GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) interface support with scalable performance that can be modularly grown as customer requirements change for up to 40Gb (gigabit) throughput, Intransa said. With the addition of the advanced DynaStac Thin Provisioning application earlier this year, Intransa customers are able to drive maximum storage utilization, further reducing the "fat provisioning" consumption and sprawl of earlier storage solutions, the company said.
Microsoft has certified Intransa’s StorStac IP SAN through the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (Microsoft ESRP) program has, with an 11,000 user Exchange 2007 configuration, delivered superior performance and high availability that previously was available only through more expensive and high consuming Fibre Channel SAN solutions, the company said. Intransa solutions are also certified for VMware virtualization and consolidation implementations, it added.
