Infortrend

Infortrend Technology, branded as Infortrend, is a Taiwanese storage-technology company focused on the design, development, manufacture, and sale of enterprise storage systems. Its principal technologies and products are associated with storage area networks, network-attached storage, RAID arrays, and unified storage architectures. The company serves organizations that need centralized, scalable, and resilient management of business data rather than consumer-oriented personal storage products. The company was established in Taiwan in 1993. Its early work concentrated on RAID controllers, giving it a foundation in data protection, storage performance, and the management of multiple disk drives as a logical system. Over time, Infortrend expanded from component-level controller technology into complete RAID storage arrays and, subsequently, its own branded systems. This transition broadened the company’s role from a storage-component supplier to a provider of integrated hardware and software platforms. A significant branding milestone came in 2003, when Infortrend began shipping products under its own name through the launch of the EonStor series. The EonStor family became the principal platform around which the company developed successive storage offerings. Later product families included EonStor DS, EonStor GS, EonStor GSe, and EonStor GSe Pro, alongside earlier or related lines such as ESVA and EonNAS. These families address different combinations of block storage, file storage, unified storage, virtualization, shared access, and capacity or performance requirements, although the precise configuration varies by product generation. Infortrend’s technology history includes a series of storage-interface and drive-form-factor milestones. The company has described its products as including early RAID arrays supporting 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel host connectivity and later 16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel host connectivity. It also introduced RAID arrays using 2.5-inch drives, SAS drives, and SATA drives. These developments reflect the company’s emphasis on adapting storage arrays to changing data-center interfaces, drive technologies, and workload requirements. The company’s solutions have been associated with sectors and use cases including video surveillance, cloud computing, media and entertainment, virtualization, and general enterprise infrastructure. Such environments typically require high availability, expandable capacity, shared storage, and protection against drive failure. Infortrend’s offerings are therefore positioned primarily as infrastructure products sold through business, systems-integration, and channel relationships rather than as retail consumer electronics. Infortrend is headquartered in New Taipei, Taiwan, and has identified regional headquarters or offices in Tokyo, Sunnyvale in California, Beijing, and Munich. Its international operating footprint supports sales, customer service, and market coverage across Asia, North America, Europe, and other global markets. The company was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 2002. Public reference material supplied for this entry does not provide reliable current revenue, earnings, employee, or ownership figures, so those details are omitted.

Infortrend was founded in Taiwan in 1993. The company initially concentrated on RAID controllers, a category of hardware used to combine multiple disk drives and provide functions such as redundancy, performance management, and logical storage presentation. This starting point placed Infortrend within the enterprise storage-component market, where controller technology is central to the reliability and operation of disk arrays. As its capabilities developed, Infortrend moved beyond individual controllers and expanded into complete RAID storage arrays. The change allowed it to supply more of the storage infrastructure stack and to compete as a systems vendor rather than only as a component specialist. The company subsequently developed products for different host interfaces, drive types, and storage architectures, responding to the transition from earlier disk technologies to Fibre Channel, SAS, SATA, and newer data-center configurations. In 2002, Infortrend became a publicly listed company on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The listing marked an important corporate milestone and provided the company with a public-market identity as its storage business expanded. The following year, in 2003, it began shipping products under its own brand and introduced the EonStor product series. EonStor became the central branded platform for the company’s subsequent storage-system development and helped distinguish Infortrend’s complete systems from its earlier controller-focused activities. After the EonStor launch, the company broadened its branded portfolio. Product families referenced in public descriptions include EonStor DS, EonStor GS, EonStor GSe, and EonStor GSe Pro, as well as ESVA and EonNAS. These lines represent the company’s expansion across storage-area-network, network-attached-storage, and unified-storage applications. The portfolio has been directed at enterprise and professional environments in which organizations need shared access to data, expandable capacity, storage consolidation, and resilience against hardware failure. Infortrend has also highlighted interface and form-factor developments as part of its technology history. Its product milestones include RAID arrays with 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel host connectivity and later 16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel host connectivity. The company also introduced arrays using 2.5-inch drives and arrays based on SAS and SATA drives. These developments show an effort to align its systems with evolving data-center connectivity standards and disk technologies. The company’s storage products have been used or marketed for video surveillance, cloud computing, media and entertainment, virtualization, and broader enterprise-storage workloads. Those applications can require sustained throughput, large capacity, concurrent access, and protection of valuable data. Infortrend’s business therefore centers on infrastructure hardware and associated storage-management capabilities, generally delivered through enterprise sales and channel ecosystems. Infortrend is headquartered in the Zhonghe District of New Taipei, Taiwan. Public descriptions identify regional headquarters or offices in Tokyo, Sunnyvale, Beijing, and Munich, giving the company a presence across major Asian, North American, and European technology markets. Its international structure supports a business that sells storage systems beyond its Taiwanese home market. The supplied reference material does not establish a detailed sequence of later corporate events, executive changes, acquisitions, controversies, or current financial performance; those areas remain unpopulated rather than inferred.

• 2003

  EonStor branded product launch

  [1]Infortrenden.wikipedia.org

  The company began shipping products under its own brand with the introduction of the EonStor storage series.

• 2002

  Listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange

  [1]Infortrenden.wikipedia.org

  Infortrend became a publicly listed company on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2495.TW.

• 1993

  Company founded in Taiwan

  [1]Infortrenden.wikipedia.org

  Infortrend was established in Taiwan and initially focused on RAID-controller technology.

• Expansion into multiple storage interfaces and form factors

  [1]Infortrenden.wikipedia.org

  Infortrend introduced RAID-array products associated with 8 Gbit/s and 16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel host connectivity, 2.5-inch drives, SAS drives, and SATA drives.

Enterprise storage infrastructure provider focused on SAN, NAS, RAID, and unified storage systems for data centers and specialized professional workloads.

• Enterprise storage systems · 2003

  EonStor

  EonStor is Infortrend’s principal branded storage platform, introduced in 2003 when the company began shipping products under its own name. The family represents the company’s move from RAID-controller technology and storage components into complete storage systems. EonStor products are associated with enterprise applications requiring centralized data storage, RAID protection, shared access, and expandable capacity.

• SAN and RAID storage

  EonStor DS

  EonStor DS is one of Infortrend’s main storage families. It is positioned around enterprise storage-array use cases, including SAN-style block storage and RAID-based data protection. The family belongs to the company’s own-branded EonStor portfolio and is intended for organizations that need dedicated shared storage for business applications, virtualization, and other data-center workloads.

• Unified storage

  EonStor GS

  EonStor GS is a unified-storage product family in Infortrend’s portfolio. It addresses environments in which organizations want storage capabilities spanning different access methods and workloads within a consolidated platform. Public reference material identifies it as one of the company’s principal current product families, while detailed model specifications and launch dates are not established in the supplied sources.

• Unified storage

  EonStor GSe

  EonStor GSe is a member of the EonStor family aimed at unified-storage requirements. It forms part of Infortrend’s broader effort to serve enterprises and specialized workloads with systems that can consolidate storage resources and support shared data access. The supplied reference material does not provide a verified product-generation date or detailed technical specification.

• Professional unified storage

  EonStor GSe Pro

  EonStor GSe Pro is a professional-oriented member of Infortrend’s unified-storage portfolio. It is listed among the company’s main product families and is intended for business or specialized environments requiring integrated storage capabilities. No specific launch year, configuration range, or performance claim is added because those details are not supported by the supplied reference material.

• Network-attached storage

  EonNAS

  EonNAS is an Infortrend product line associated with network-attached storage. It reflects the company’s expansion beyond block-oriented RAID arrays into file-oriented shared storage. EonNAS systems were intended for organizations needing network-accessible capacity and centralized file storage, although the supplied sources do not establish the current availability of individual EonNAS models.

• Enterprise storage systems

  ESVA

  ESVA is one of the branded product lines associated with Infortrend’s expansion after the introduction of EonStor. It forms part of the company’s enterprise-storage portfolio, alongside EonStor and EonNAS. The available reference material does not provide enough information to describe its detailed architecture, target segment, launch timing, or current status.

• 2021.10.13

  Reported2021.10.13

  Infortrend announces a promotion with optional data service software at no charge[3]Infortrend推出可免费获取可选数据服务软件的促销活动tass.com

  Infortrend introduced a promotion running through the end of 2021 under which customers purchasing GS or DS products could receive optional data service software for free.

• 2021.07.20

  Reported2021.07.20

  Infortrend launches U.2 SSD solution for EonStor CS scale-out NAS[4]Infortrend推出适用于EonStor CS横向扩展NAS的U.2 SSD方案prnewswire.com

  Infortrend launched a U.2 SSD solution for its EonStor CS scale-out NAS. The all-flash CS 4014U supports high-throughput, low-latency workloads and offers hybrid configuration and auto-tiering.

• 2020.12.22

  Reported2020.12.22

  Infortrend wins two Storage Magazine awards[5]Infortrend 获得 Storage Magazine 两项奖项tass.com

  Infortrend announced that it received Storage Magazine's “Editor's Choice - Company” award and “Cloud Product of the Year” for EonStor GS Gen2. The article says the awards ceremony was held virtually but does not give the date the awards were received.

• 2019.10

  Reported2019.10.29

  Infortrend partners with e-shelter’s innovation lab[6]Infortrend与e-shelter创新实验室合作tass.com

  Infortrend partnered with e-shelter’s innovation lab to let end users and partners evaluate Infortrend technologies alongside innovations from hardware and cloud technology providers. The article also reports that Infortrend installed storage solutions at e-shelter’s data center.

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1. 1Infortrenden.wikipedia.org
2. 2Infortrend official websiteinfortrend.com
3. 3Infortrend推出可免费获取可选数据服务软件的促销活动tass.com
4. 4Infortrend推出适用于EonStor CS横向扩展NAS的U.2 SSD方案prnewswire.com
5. 5Infortrend 获得 Storage Magazine 两项奖项tass.com
6. 6Infortrend与e-shelter创新实验室合作tass.com
7. 7Infortrend推出EonStor CS4014U：支持U.2 NVMe全闪存横向扩展finance.sina.com.cn