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Tarmin Technologies Announces General Availability of GridBank
ONGAR, England and PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb 12, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Tarmin
Technologies, a leading provider of active archive, content addressable
storage (CAS), information lifecycle management (ILM) and intelligent storage
software optimized for secondary storage environments, today announced general
availability of its flagship product, GridBank(TM). First introduced to the
market at Storage Networking World and Storage Expo UK in October 2008,
GridBank's distinctive and innovative design for enterprise-class active
archiving and next-generation intelligent storage software allows
organizations running Windows, Linux, Solaris(R), HP-UX(R), AIX(R), or virtual
servers (VMWare(R) or HyperV), to significantly decrease their storage Total
Cost of Ownership (TCO).
"Tarmin's GridBank is a game-changing active archiving platform that
delivers a tightly integrated single solution", said Arun Taneja, founder and
consulting analyst, Taneja Group. "GridBank provides comprehensive
functionality for policy-based data movement between tiers, content
addressable storage for immutability and long-term retention of data,
auditability, security and much, much more. Given its extremely innovative
design, GridBank appeals to a broad spectrum of customers across many sectors,
but especially to customers who do not want to spend their sparse IT resources
cobbling together many different products from many different vendors."
Tarmin's GridBank is a high-performance, high-availability product that
utilizes affordable industry-standard, heterogeneous server and storage
platforms to form a grid-based active archive and intelligent, scalable
storage solution. This enables effective long-term, fixed-content data
preservation on cost-effective secondary and tertiary storage tiers. GridBank
delivers a comprehensive storage software solution that substantially reduces
storage and IT costs while providing active archiving, CAS, ILM, policy-based
storage automation, search and e-discovery, security, and audit management, in
a unique all-in-one package that also satisfies any organization's regulatory
and compliance requirements.
"GridBank has dramatically reduced our storage and IT labor costs," said
Derek Kruger, IT supervisor, City of Safford in Arizona. "With GridBank, data
and content management has become incredibly easy, making our storage
operations much more efficient and cost effective. We also know that should
there be a need to find records for e-discovery, or just our own use, we can
quickly, securely, and accurately retrieve the data."
GridBank instantly reduces CAPEX as it optimizes storage and provides
maximum efficiency. To achieve this, GridBank moves data from expensive
primary storage to much lower-cost secondary storage, saving up to five times
on the cost of primary storage. Since secondary storage requires less power
and cooling than high performance primary storage and has a reduced carbon
footprint, GridBank makes data center deployments much greener.
GridBank also promotes CAPEX savings through its heterogeneous storage and
virtual pooling design. In addition, GridBank delivers considerable OPEX
advantages through its policy-based storage automation; as policies are
deployed, all storage functions are performed without human intervention,
eradicating timeconsuming tasks, reducing IT manpower needs, and increasing
productivity.
"GridBank offers critical data management capabilities that, prior to
GridBank, were only offered by disparate products," said Shahbaz Ali, founder
and CEO of Tarmin. "With GridBank, companies from the large enterprise to the
SME will substantially reduce the TCO of their storage infrastructures. At the
same time, GridBank increases the security of company data resources, provides
a more efficient use of IT manpower, assists organizations meet compliance
needs, and delivers a much more environmentally sound storage ecosystem."
Summary
GridBank's next-generation solution provides:
* All-in-one solution for CAS, ILM, active archiving, policy-based
storage automation, search and ediscovery, security, and audit
management
* Dramatic reduction of IT, storage, and compliance CAPEX and OPEX
* Extensive data lifecycle management from ingestion/migration through to
end-of-life
* Complete storage optimization and efficiency to shrink the capacity of
migrated or archived data, to provide more efficient storage power and
cooling, and to deliver much greener storage installation
* Substantially improved productivity through the policy-based automation
of archiving, data management and secondary storage administration
* Rapid e-discovery, search, and data retrieval
* Easily accessed, but highly secure, data.
"In this economy our end users are asking us to deliver solutions that
help them reduce their IT and storage costs", said Andrew Griffiths, sales
director, Q Associates, a Tarmin authorized channel partner, in Newbury UK.
"GridBank achieves this by automating key functions, including CAS, ILM,
active archiving, encryption, security, policy management, search and audit
management. By allowing us to deliver a single, integrated solution, GridBank
helps deliver substantial reductions in storage CAPEX and OPEX, while
continuing to satisfy complex regulatory and compliance requirements."
Availability
GridBank is generally available now from Tarmin and its worldwide network
of channel partners.
ABOUT TARMIN TECHNOLOGIES
Tarmin(TM) Technologies is a leading provider of active archival and next-
generation intelligent storage solutions optimized for secondary storage
environments. Tarmin's GridBank(TM) platform solves archiving problems across
all business functions. Deployed as a heterogeneous grid of clustered servers,
GridBank delivers maximum data reliability and substantially lowers storage
and IT CAPEX and OPEX. A high-performance, high-availability, highly scalable,
and active archiving solution, GridBank satisfies any organization's
regulatory, governance, and compliance requirements by ensuring secure, long-
term data retention, and fast search and retrieval of valuable business
records. GridBank's policy-driven software completely automates all processes,
while empowering staff to securely share, search and publish their archived
data, while delivering a "Green" friendly storage solution. Tarmin is
headquartered in Ongar, United Kingdom, with North American offices in Palo
Alto, California. For more information, please visit http://www.tarmin.com or
e-mail us at info@tarmin.com
Contact Information:
Corporate
Eric Herzog
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Phone: +1 (510) 508-1871
Email: eric.herzog@tarmin.com
http://www.tarmin.com
North American Public Relations
Corey Oiesen, Julie Parayno
Dovetail Public Relations
Phone: +1 (408) 395-3600
Email: coreyo@dovetailpr.com, jp@dovetailpr.com
EMEA Public Relations
Federica Monsone
A3 Communications
Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203
Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk
(C) 2008-2009 Tarmin(TM) Technologies. All rights reserved. Tarmin
Technologies, GridBank, NOADS, and the NOADS logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Tarmin Technologies in the United Kingdom and other countries.
Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Tarmin Technologies
makes no warranties, expressed or implied, by operation of law or otherwise,
relating to this document, the products or the computer software programs
described herein. The information contained in this document is subject to
change without notice. Tarmin Technologies assumes no responsibility for any
errors that may appear.
All other trade names, trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks
used and mentioned in this document are the rightful property of their
respective owners.
SOURCE Tarmin Technologies
http://www.tarmin.com/
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