Alliance Creates Data Storage Cost/Value Proposition for IT Professionals
MILPITAS, Calif. – June 16, 2010 – PROMISE Technology Inc., a leading supplier of versatile RAID storage solutions catering to customers from enterprise to consumer and
Tarmin, a leading provider of cloud archiving storage platforms, announced today they have signed a global strategic alliance agreement to fulfill the demands of enterprise and mid-sized customers looking to reduce the cost of storing, searching and sharing data across an organization and in the cloud, while fully utilizing storage capacity.
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The joining of forces between PROMISE and Tarmin enables organizations to further their IT consolidation projects: improving performance, lowering storage and IT costs, reducing management complexity, and improving data security. Through this partnership, customers leverage Tarmin’s automated policy-based management to archive and tier data across heterogeneous storage deployments to on-premise PROMISE RAID solutions, to cloud storage, or to both. The PROMISE and Tarmin solution integrates cloud and traditional storage into a single pool, provides non-disruptive data movement across all tiers of on-premise and cloud storage deployments, gives IT a single integrated view of all data, and delivers holistic policy management and security that extends across all data centers and cloud storage providers.
“The benefits that Tarmin’s cloud archiving offers in substantial cost savings and flexible configuration dovetail perfectly with PROMISE,” said Eric Herzog, vice president of Marketing for Tarmin. “Tarmin’s cloud archiving platform seamlessly connects to heterogeneous on-premise and cloud-based storage, delivering our mutual customers transparent access to information; powerful e-discovery, search, and data retrieval; and massive scalability. The Tarmin-PROMISE combined cloud archiving solution dramatically enhances data and storage management, diminishes compliance and regulatory risks and substantially reduces storage and IT costs across the data center and the cloud.”
“Today data is growing at an uncompromising rate,” said Ray Bahar, vice president of Sales and Marketing, PROMISE Technology. “By deploying this combined solution organizations are better able to determine their storage requirements based on their business needs. This enables an organization to optimize its application performance by matching the application’s data needs to its appropriate tier in the IT infrastructure ‒ making it easy for a business to address storage and retrieval in a way that’s in synch with the business needs.”
- Tarmin’s cloud archiving platform allows customers to effortlessly tier and archive data from their primary storage environments to cost effective cloud storage providers and heterogeneous on-premise storage. The Tarmin cloud solution delivers unprecedented scalability, comprehensive policy-based management, data security, and uniquely addresses governance, regulatory, and compliance (GRC) requirements with its unified data retention, search and case management. Tarmin improves data transparency throughout an organization’s cloud and on-premise storage, while eliminating the need to choose a single storage vendor’s data management and hardware solution.
- The PROMISE VTrak is a high-availability RAID storage solution developed to meet the needs of enterprises using mission-critical applications. The VTrak storage system offers complete end-to-end RAID and JBOD solutions using Fibre Channel and SAS connectivity.
Availability and Pricing
Available today through the PROMISE and Tarmin reseller and channel partner networks. Pricing available upon request.
About Tarmin
Tarmin, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud archiving storage platforms. Tarmin’s award winning cloud archiving solution organizes archival data silos spread across a company’s data centers to public or private clouds, optimizing information access while conserving storage and reducing costs. Providing transparent archiving capability through the integration of cloud and traditional storage into a single pool, Tarmin delivers infinite scalability, an object-based storage model, and a non-disruptive technology adoption path. While substantially lowering storage and IT CAPEX and OPEX, Tarmin’s cloud archiving platform enables unified retention, search and case management, and consistent policy management and security across all archives - be they in a public cloud, private cloud, or on traditional on premise storage. Tarmin creates an easily manageable approach to cloud archiving that improves data and storage management, satisfies any organization’s regulatory, governance, and compliance requirements, and delivers a “Green” friendly storage solution. Tarmin has received numerous industry accolades including: Finalist for Storage Magazine’s Best Enterprise Storage Product of 2009 (Jan, 2010), one of the “Nine Storage Companies to Watch” by Network World and CIO magazines (August 2009), and Storage Magazine UK’s “One to Watch” Award (June 2009). Tarmin is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. For more information, please visit
www.tarmin.com or e-mail us at
info@tarmin.com.
About PROMISE Technology, Inc.
With a long history of innovation, PROMISE Technology develops and manufactures sophisticated RAID solutions recognized worldwide, ranging from a complete line of RAID controller cards to FC/iSCSI/SAS/SATA RAID subsystems. Catering to enterprise, mid-range, entry-level consumer data protection needs, PROMISE products are distinguished by their Unified Common RAID Core and management software and unparalleled support. Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., PROMISE has operations throughout Asia and Europe. For more information, visit PROMISE Technology's website at www.PROMISE.com.