Intransa Introduces IP Video Storage

Intransa Inc. announced its latest shared and scalable external IP storage products for
video and IT storage users including a Video Storage Administrator
(VSA) toolset, the EdgeBlock M12 edge storage recording platform and other offerings that support the new M12 module.

Intransa’s VSA toolset enables video surveillance,
industrial video and other video storage users to quickly setup and
benefit from an Intransa IP storage solution without any previous IT or
storage management experience. The newly announced Intransa EdgeBlock
M12 is an ideal platform for the edge, recording directly from
IP-enabled surveillance cameras or through standard DVRs and NVRs.

The Intransa VSA toolset and the EdgeBlock M12 affordably and
modularly scale from as little as 4TB up to 1,500TB (1.5PB) of
RAID-protected, high performance external recording capacity. Customers
require less overall capacity than with DVR/NVR-only solutions and are
able to dramatically increase retention periods, store video at maximum
resolution and frame rates and are ensured always-available recording.
Video surveillance users benefit from Intransa’s storage support of
thousands of cameras with a single shared storage system. Users also
have the option to run other security and IT applications
simultaneously for additional savings and benefits.

New Software Features and Enhancements
The VSA toolset is among the new features and enhancements added to
the proven, fourth-generation Intransa StorStac software suite. The VSA
is a powerful subset of the StorManager graphical user interface (GUI)
used to setup, provision and control all StorStac Systems. Intransa’s
VSA is a key benefit to physical security, video surveillance, quality
assurance, supply chain surveillance, industrial video and other users
that are more familiar with cameras than high performance, scalable IP
storage.

Integrated features of the VSA include:
Dynamic load balancing and storage management ensure optimum
utilization of Intransa shared, scalable IP storage to meet video
requirements, lessening the overall storage requirements of multiple
cameras, DVRs, NVRs or servers and allowing more video to be retained
in less total capacity and for significantly less cost.

• A video storage calculator displays available capacity and performance while monitoring recording speed and throughput.
• Advanced administration and remote access ensure that video users
  are able to concentrate on their video applications while also
  simplifying and reducing maintenance and administration.
• For IT users, the familiar, expanded and powerful features of the
  Intransa StorStac OS provide a single-system viewpoint via the
  StorManager GUI whether supporting a few terabytes or up to 1.5
  petabytes of high performance storage.
• DynaStac thin provisioning ensures maximum utilization of deployed
  storage resources, a key component of Green IT, as well as StorCluster,
  StorStac Snapshot, and StorAR asynchronous replication continue to be
  available and have been enhanced with a number of improvements.

New Platform Choices

The Intransa EdgeBlock M12 is an ideal platform for recording
directly from IP-enabled surveillance cameras or through standard DVRs
and NVRs. Perfect for tight spaces, the 2U rack-sized EdgeBlock offers
up to 12TB of hot-swap disk drives, advanced RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10
protection, and optional high availability configurations. DVRs and
NVRs now have the ability to share scalable storage improving overall
utilization and virtualization. With inexpensive modular upgrades the
EdgeBlock M12 can scale to 84TB in just 14U and supports high capacity,
low cost SATA and high performance SAS IT-grade disk drives.

The M12 series supports StorStac BuildingBlock and 1GbE IP
infrastructures in addition to PerformanceBlock 10GbE deployments.
Built on a modular system the EdgeBlock can grow into a BuildingBlock
or PerformanceBlock systems without forklift upgrades, since all use
the same modules, and scale from 4 to 1,500TB.

The M12 joins the customer-proven Intransa M15 storage module
series, which offers up to 15TB in a 3U enclosure and continues to
deliver the best price per terabyte of any shared, scalable external IP
storage in the industry.

Intransa’s StorStac Systems have garnered industry awards since
their introduction in 2007. And, the new EdgeBlock M12 is now in
consideration for a Security Industry Association New Product Showcase
award at ISC West. Intransa IP storage supports integration with common
video management system software from StorAlliance Technology partners
including AMAG Technology, Inc., Cisco Systems, Genetec Inc., JDS
Digital Security Systems, Milestone Systems, On-Net Surveillance
Systems Inc. (OnSSI), VideoNEXT and VideoProtein, as well as
integration with Computer Network Limited (CNL) and IndigoVision PLC
solutions.

Availability
The new StorStac software features, including the VSA toolset, are
included in all new Intransa StorStac Systems, as well as
field-installable upgrades for existing customer systems under both the
StorWarranty or StorSupport extended coverage programs.

EdgeBlock, BuildingBlock and PerformanceBlock equipped with either
the M12 or M15 module options are immediately available exclusively
through Intransa StorPartner security and systems integrators
worldwide.

Intransa, Inc.