INTELLIGENT, ACTIVE ARCHIVE LEADER TARMIN EXPANDS EUROPEAN SALES TEAM

Published 9th July 2008

INTELLIGENT, ACTIVE ARCHIVE LEADER TARMIN EXPANDS EUROPEAN SALES TEAM

Tarmin Technologies Names Adrian Williams Director of Channel Sales and Alliances


Ongar, United Kingdom. (1st July 2008) – Tarmin™ Technologies, a leading provider of intelligent, active archive solutions for enterprise and mid-market organisations, announced today that Adrian Williams has joined Tarmin as European director of channel sales and alliances.

With the addition of Williams to its team, Tarmin will continue to grow its European sales channel. “Adrian’s extremely successful track record demonstrates his essential role in creating strong relationships with European resellers, VARs, and systems integrators,” said Karl Edwards, vice president of business development for Tarmin. “His extensive experience with the different local channel models and broad knowledge of the storage solutions market will be pivotal as Tarmin delivers its NOADS™ (Networked Object Aware Data Storage) platform through our channel partners.”

“I am very excited about Tarmin’s capability to solve a number of critical issues facing storage and IT administrators,” said Adrian Williams, European director of channel sales and alliances for Tarmin. “Tarmin’s unique, intelligent, active archiving architecture offers channel partners significant sales opportunities for professional services, server and storage hardware, and solutions consulting. With NOADS our channel partners will provide their end customers with a comprehensive solution that incorporates the essential elements of an exceptionally robust, intelligent, active archival solution – data retention, policy driven archival management, data migration, heterogeneous storage and server infrastructures, data deduplication, data security, encryption, and intelligent search and retrieval – with innovative storage technologies – clustered distributed file systems, file area networking, storage virtualization, and object-based storage.”

Williams was most recently Strategic Alliance Manager for EMEA at Dot Hill Systems, a leading OEM provider of disk-based storage subsystems. Here, Williams was responsible for the development of OEM relationships for the company’s R/Evolution storage platform. Prior to Dot Hill, Williams spent five years at SUN Microsystems where he was involved in numerous partnership and channel management roles. As Alliance Manager for UK and EMEA at Dot Hill, Williams managed the Sun OEM relationship and partner programs for the SUN SE3000 storage array and oversaw annual revenues in excess of $40 million.

About Tarmin Technologies, Inc.
Tarmin™ Technologies is a leading provider of intelligent, active archive solutions. Tarmin’s Networked Object Aware Data Storage (NOADS™) platform solves archiving problems across all business functions. NOADS software enables effective long-term, fixed-content data preservation. Deployed as a heterogeneous grid of clustered servers, NOADS delivers maximum data reliability and substantially lowers storage and IT CAPEX and OPEX. NOADS effortlessly integrates into new or existing storage infrastructures, supporting DAS, SAN, NAS, tape, and optical media. Storage resources are optimized as NOADS seamlessly archives and migrates data from high-cost primary storage to low-cost secondary and off-line storage tiers. A high-performance, high-availability, highly-scalable, intelligent, active archiving solution, NOADS 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. NOADS’ policy-driven software completely automates retention, encryption, access, data deduplication, migration, shredding policies and more to suit any company’s circumstances, while empowering staff to securely share, search and publish their archived data. 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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