Tarmin Begins Shipping GridBank

ONGAR, U.K. and PALO ALTO, Calif. -- 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. 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 activearchiving and next-generation intelligent storage software allows organizations running Windows, Linux,

Solaris®, HP-UX®, AIX®, or virtual servers (VMWare® 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 singlesolution”, 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 frommany different vendors.”

Tarmin Technologies Ltd.