New Horizon College of Engineering has become the first technology training institute to have a storage attached (IP SAN) network lab in the entire country. Digital storage solutions provider, Intransa, has set up this facility for NHCE at its campus on January 19, 2006.

IP storage solutions radically reduce the complexity of deploying scalable network storage. Based on advanced technology that leverages the cost and performance advantage of Ethernet and the ubiquity of IP networks, The IP SAN Technology enable a new generation of information storage, delivery, and management over IP networks.

New Horizon College of Engineering (NHCE) has signed a MoU with Intransa Inc., US on 21 July 2005 with the objective of setting up of IP SAN Lab at it's campus to impart training for the students of NHCE and the client executives of Intransa India.

Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric, IP storage solutions headquartered in San Jose, California. Intransa is an innovator of enterprise-class, intelligent IP storage solutions. Intransa India customers include - MphasiS, Spice Telecom, L&T, Wipro Spectramind, CDAC, IIT etc to name a few.

The IP SAN Technology lab is one of the first in the country aims at teaching the students at the college level itself and will showcase the new technology's advantages. The Lab is equipped with 2 IP SAN systems -Intransa IP-3000 with 2 terabytes capacity. Both come with StorControl Management System and the Snapshot Software. There are also two IBM mid-range servers attached to these storage boxes.

The curriculum for students will familiarise the IP SAN technology. It will also give them a first-hand feel of major software components in an IP SAN storage box, where each is installed and run, and key software features such as RAID, snapshot, replication, system logs, backups and data protection. Intransa India and their client companies will recruit the students at the end of IP SAN Training.