Infortrend
Encyclopedia
Infortrend Technology is a Taiwan
ese technology company specializing in SAN
and NAS
storage systems. The company is headquartered in Taipei
, Taiwan
, and has regional headquarters in Tokyo
, San Jose
, California
, Beijing
, Munich
, and Basingstoke, UK.
controllers. The company gradually expanded its focus to include full RAID storage arrays.
In 2003 it started to ship its own-branded products when it launched the EonStor product series. Since then, its own-branded business has continued to grow, including product lines such as EonStor DS, ESVA and EonNAS.
Infortrend has been a leader in the storage market, launching the world's first 8Gb/s FC-host RAID array, 2.5"-drive RAID array, SAS-drive RAID array and SATA-drive RAID array.
Infortrend was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 2002. Revenue in 2009 reached approximately NT$2.3 billion.
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
ese technology company specializing in SAN
Storage area network
A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
and NAS
Network-attached storage
Network-attached storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients. NAS not only operates as a file server, but is specialized for this task either by its hardware, software, or configuration of those elements...
storage systems. The company is headquartered in Taipei
Taipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, and has regional headquarters in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, San Jose
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, and Basingstoke, UK.
History
Infortrend was founded in 1993 in Taiwan, initially focusing on RAIDRAID
RAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...
controllers. The company gradually expanded its focus to include full RAID storage arrays.
In 2003 it started to ship its own-branded products when it launched the EonStor product series. Since then, its own-branded business has continued to grow, including product lines such as EonStor DS, ESVA and EonNAS.
Infortrend has been a leader in the storage market, launching the world's first 8Gb/s FC-host RAID array, 2.5"-drive RAID array, SAS-drive RAID array and SATA-drive RAID array.
Infortrend was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 2002. Revenue in 2009 reached approximately NT$2.3 billion.
Market Position
Infortrend primarily competes in the entry-level and mid-range disk storage system markets. Infortrend is one of the worldwide top 10 vendors of external disk storage system systems in terms of shipment volume. It primarily competes with vendors such as IBM, HP and Dell.Products
Infortrend primarily produces and sells RAID storage solutions. The company's main product families include ESVA (Enterprise Scalable Virtualized Architecture), EonStor DS and EonNAS.- The ESVAEsvaThe Esva or ESVA might refer to the Esva River river in northern Spain.It can also refer to:* A mail/spam virtual appliance and * Evergreen State Volkssport Association * Eastern Shore of Virginia Association...
family includes virtualized SANStorage area networkA storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
(Storage Area NetworkStorage area networkA storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
) storage solutions for mid-range enterprises offering thin provisioning, distributed load balancing, automated storage tiering, automatic data migration, prioritized volume accessibility, local and remote data replication. The ESVA family features Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI host systems, as well as models with hybrid FC/iSCSI host connectivity. ESVA systems can be scaled up to 1,344 disk drives with scale-out technology. - EonStor DS is an entry-level SANStorage area networkA storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
storage solution providing a comprehensive set of data services, including local and remote replication and thin provisioning. The EonStor DS family features FC, iSCSI and SAS host systems, as well as models with hybrid FC/iSCSI host connectivity. - EonNAS is Infortrend's NASNetwork-attached storageNetwork-attached storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients. NAS not only operates as a file server, but is specialized for this task either by its hardware, software, or configuration of those elements...
(Network-Attached StorageNetwork-attached storageNetwork-attached storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients. NAS not only operates as a file server, but is specialized for this task either by its hardware, software, or configuration of those elements...
) product family. It features a unified storage platform that simultaneously serves file- and block-based applications. EonNAS includes models for mid-range environments and smaller businesses.
External links
- Infortrend Official website
- Infortrend Overview
- Infortrend products
- Businessweek Online - 'Asia's Hot Growth Companies: 2006 (ranked no.5) - Businessweek Online'
- Throughwave Thailand - Infortrend's Authorized Distributor in Thailand