Transcend United Technologies has partnered with Coraid to provide next-generation Ethernet SAN storage for Transcend United cloud services.

To augment their clients' existing IT strategy, Transcend United hybrid cloud services extend infrastructure and application architectures. Along with engineering expertise, Transcend United provides cloud infrastructure with the scalability and elasticity clients require to achieve their business goals and improve their bottom lines.

Along with backup/recovery and mobility/wireless, the cloud services span core practice areas of unified communications, data infrastructure, the company stated in a press release. Transcend United engages in the assessment, design, configuration and installation of IT and communications infrastructures for organizations in the United States and internationally.

“Economic and competitive forces are pushing our customers to seek alternatives to better align their IT infrastructure with their business needs. By offering cloud services we can make our customers more efficient and help them respond faster to ever-changing business requirements,” said Stephen Benson, executive vice president of managed services at Transcend United. “We looked at several competing storage offerings and technologies, but only Coraid EtherDrive SAN provided the scalability, performance and simplicity we required.”

While eliminating the complexity of traditional SAN solutions, Coraid EtherDrive solutions provide enterprises of all sizes with flexible, high-performance storage. Coraid EtherDrive storage arrays provide lower OPEX (News - Alert) and a 5-8x price-performance advantage over legacy storage using an innovative scale-out SAN architecture and standard Ethernet. EtherDrive is ideally suited to dynamic high-performance computing, virtualization, video and cloud computing environments.

In May 2011, the company unveiled the expansion of its portfolio of service offerings. Transcend United provides end-to-end service and ongoing support for all Avaya products including Unified Communications (News - Alert), Contact Center, Data, and Small Business to Avaya customers(including heritage Nortel).

The company also announced successful completion of Avaya’s (News - Alert) on-site Service Assessment for Implementation & Maintenance. This audit process validates that Transcend United has the required infrastructure, processes and systems in place.

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