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Intransa, the global leader in enterprise IP SAN storage systems, announced today the company has significantly expanded its presence in new global markets through the opening of a new sales office in France, and the hiring of Jose Rodrigues, newly named country manager, France and Southern Europe. The company has demonstrated significant proof points on its global growth plans in the last 12 months, including the signing of two new Southeast Asia strategic reseller partnerships this year to add to its roster of resellers in the Asia Pacific, China, India, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States. Intransa is the only IP SAN company featuring a complete family of native IP SAN products, to meet the needs of small, mid-size, and large enterprises. In 2004, the company introduced new product lines -- including the new IP 3000, IP 5500, and IP 7500 products, reaching each of these different market segments and shipping more than one petabyte of IP-based storage to customers. "Intransa has been steadily building momentum and regional expertise as we enhance our capability to provide the best IP-based storage solutions to customers around the globe, where the cost/performance benefits of our solutions are apparent alternatives to costly fibre channel storage," said Udi Paret, vice president of global operations. "Our modular approach is already bearing fruit in many different industries including media, education, and healthcare as we expand our presence to support customers worldwide." Intransa's expansion is driven by sales of its native IP SAN product suite, engineered to leverage the existing investment in Ethernet infrastructure, exploiting the scale of TCP/IP, the low cost of serial-ATA disk, and the speed of iSCSI networking. At a fraction of the cost of proprietary Fibre Channel disk arrays, Intransa's modular architecture supports the flexibility to add up to petabytes of data with a single chassis. The patented IntraStor architecture allows Intransa customers to tune performance and capacity seamlessly, without disruption to production systems. By adding a new disk controller or enclosure, performance and capacity automatically adapt to changing business requirements, providing a low-cost alternative to Fibre Channel for disaster recovery, consolidation, streaming media, archiving, and migration projects. Among Intransa's industry acknowledgements, in 2004, Intransa took first place at Supercomputing 2004 conference in Pittsburgh, Penn. for providing a modular IP-based storage infrastructure in a multi-vendor demonstration of multiple servers accessing the same storage in parallel. The demonstration showed the cost/performance benefits of Intransa compared to the complexity of Fibre Channel. The company was also recognized as one of Byte and Switch magazine's top ten private companies in 2004. Jose Rodrigues to Spearhead Southern Europe Expansion Jose Rodrigues brings over 15 years of extensive international sales and business development experience to Intransa with leading high-growth organizations. Rodrigues has a proven track record of building world-class organizations that repeatedly outperform forecasts. Before joining Intransa, Rodrigues served as vice president of EMEA sales at Neartek Inc. where he grew sales to euro 500,000 to euro 3 million in two years, In addition, Rodrigues played a pivotal role as vice president for Southern Europe, VERITAS Software. At VERITAS Software, he started the French subsidiary in 1994, growing annual sales in the region to $60 million, and managing more than 200 people. Rodrigues has also worked for several hardware and software vendors, including BMC Software and Teradata. Rodrigues holds a Business Master from the University of Toulouse (France).