Tarmin Technologies' GridBank 1.5 Delivers Secure Data Archiving Into the Cloud

ONGAR, UNITED KINGDOM and PALO ALTO, CA, Jun 10
(MARKET WIRE) --
Tarmin Technologies, a leading provider of active archival and
intelligent secondary storage platforms, today announced that
GridBank(TM) 1.5 seamlessly integrates with cloud storage environments.
GridBank allows customers to effortlessly migrate and archive file and
SharePoint(R) data from their on-site environments to cloud storage
targets, while delivering unprecedented security for file and SharePoint
data. Organizations that use GridBank to connect to cloud storage
environments enjoy the comprehensive feature sets and business benefits
of GridBank, while taking advantage of the cost reduction and deployment
flexibility offered by the cloud storage delivery model. Cloud
environments can further enhance the benefits of GridBank, which was
developed to significantly reduce storage and data management costs,
automate storage administration, and help meet archiving, compliance, and
regulatory needs.

IDC, one of the world's leading IT industry analyst firms, forecasts the
Cloud storage market will rapidly accelerate its growth, reaching $5.5
billion by 2012 up from $810 million in 2008 (IDC eXchange, "IT Cloud
Services Forecast - 2008-2012: A Key Driver of New Growth,"
(http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=224), October 2008).

"The benefits that cloud storage offers in substantial cost savings and
flexible configuration dovetail perfectly with GridBank," said Shahbaz
Ali, founder and CEO of Tarmin. "GridBank's cloud storage connectivity
provides customers with unprecedented security for file and SharePoint
data, while delivering transparent access to customer information;
powerful e-discovery, search, and data retrieval; and massive
scalability. GridBank 1.5's cloud storage support dramatically enhances
data and storage management, diminishes compliance and regulatory risks,
and reduces storage costs."

GridBank with Cloud Support Overview

One of the unique technologies at the core of GridBank is its
comprehensive object-based secondary storage platform. This allows
GridBank to control and manage the backend of on-site storage targets
through the creation of virtual heterogeneous storage pools where file
and SharePoint-based data objects are archived. GridBank's virtual
storage pools are vendor and hardware agnostic, scalable to petabytes
(PB) of data, self-healing, and highly fault tolerant.

In addition, GridBank 1.5 supports cloud storage services as targets for
GridBank archives, repositories, and libraries. Customers can easily and
quickly connect the GridBank platform to cloud storage services. On
initial release, GridBank will provide connectivity to Amazon's Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3), which has grown to store over 52 billion
objects. Support for additional cloud storage service providers will be
forthcoming in later releases.

GridBank's easy-to-use Cloud Storage Wizard allows customers to create
connections to various cloud storage targets; it can attach different
cloud storage to different GridBank clusters, a single GridBank cluster to
multiple cloud storage providers, and provides for both on-premise virtual
storage pools and Cloud storage connectivity to the same GridBank
configuration. In short, cloud storage is configured, managed, and
accessed as easily as data on GridBank's virtual storage pools.

In a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research study, 52% of polled
organizations were either using or interested in cloud-based storage
services for archive data (ESG Research Report, Global Green Business and
IT Initiatives, 2008). "This early use and expanding interest is a result
of the rapid growth in archive environments for compliance, e-discovery,
and business intelligence processes," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst
with ESG. "When managing their archived data, customers want flexible
storage options, including capacity available via the cloud. GridBank
1.5's feature-rich platform enables these customers to shift some of the
archive storage management burden to a trusted cloud storage service
provider and makes it is easy for these organizations to take advantage
of the cost savings that result from archiving and migrating data from
expensive primary storage to cost-effective cloud-based storage."

GridBank 1.5 Enhances Cloud Storage Security

Public cloud storage services, such as Amazon's S3, are ideal for all
types of unstructured requirements, including archiving and migration of
file and SharePoint-based data. However, enterprise customers frequently
consider public cloud storage security to be inadequate, making it one of
the biggest hurdles for enterprise-level deployments. GridBank solves this
problem by providing a highly secure solution for Cloud storage
installations.

A core strength of GridBank's architecture is its array of security
features, which are all fully applicable for cloud storage deployments.
GridBank encrypts data before it is sent to the cloud storage provider --
up to 448-bit blowfish encryption. GridBank also applies a number of other
security processes such as role-based access through Active Directory (AD)
and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration, multiple
GridBank administrator security levels, additional role-based security
over and above what an enterprise deploys with AD or LDAP, and the
application of unique digital signatures for every object. Moreover,
GridBank's audit management allows IT to track each file or SharePoint
object in the cloud storage configuration: who archived it, who accessed
it, who shared it, who published it, and who retrieved it. Lastly,
GridBank allows the creation of virtual clusters as part of the GridBank
Server Grid that can be assigned by administrators to be accessible by
specific departments (for example, the finance cluster would only be
accessible to finance personnel). In such a configuration, cloud storage
resources are only accessible by users with appropriate access to that
cluster.

GridBank Cloud Storage Benefits

The key business benefits GridBank support for cloud storage
delivers
include:

-- Excellent ROI - With cloud storage costs decreasing daily the return
on GridBank is almost instant. After migration, free space is immediately
available on primary on-site storage, the data is highly secure in the low
cost cloud storage, and users can transparently access information data
almost as fast as if the storage was on-premise.
-- Storage optimization and management efficiency - The primary storage
footprint is reduced though single instancing and data compression,
optimizing primary storage performance and capacity.
-- Green storage solution - Gives customers a more environmentally
friendly storage infrastructure, as there is no need to power and cool
storage on-site (reducing the carbon footprint), and a reduction of the
amount of physical material that needs to be recycled when physical storage
hardware becomes obsolete.
-- Military-strength security - Leveraging GridBank's numerous security
options data in cloud storage remains secure.
-- Transparent and simple user experience - Users access data via one of
GridBank's seven methods, all completely transparent to the user --
regardless of where the data actually resides.
-- Policy management - GridBank's policy management framework allows
organizations to migrate the data from primary hosts and storage to cost
effective cloud storage with complete security. All policies created
through GridBank can be applied to the data migrated to the cloud storage
as if it was part of a GridBank on-premise virtual storage pool.
-- Flexible deployment - Customers can deploy to cloud storage, on-
premise, or a combination of both, depending upon customer cost, security,
and management plans.
-- E-discovery, search, and indexing - Finding data in cloud storage has
traditionally been extremely slow but with GridBank's E-discovery and
indexing technology, it is a matter of seconds. The GridBank index lives in
the enterprise on GridBank's server grid, providing users with the ability
to find the data quickly and perform E-discovery requests very efficiently.

Availability

GridBank 1.5 with cloud storage support will be
generally available in early Q3 of 2009 from Tarmin and its network of
value-added channel partners.

ABOUT TARMIN TECHNOLOGIES

Tarmin(TM) Technologies is a leading provider of active archival and
intelligent secondary storage platforms. 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 an environmentally friendly storage solution.
Tarmin is headquartered in Ongar, United Kingdom, with North American
offices in Palo Alto, California. For more information, please visit
www.tarmin.com or e-mail us at info@tarmin.com

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