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GRESHAM CLARETI VTL OPENS DOOR TO OPEN SYSTEMS FOR TRIBUTARY SYSTEMS, INC.
Gresham Open Platform Tape Virtualization Enables OEM to Build on Success in HP NonStop High Availability Market
AUSTIN, Texas, October 16, 2007 – Gresham Enterprise Storage, the leading developer of data protection solutions with vision, announced today that Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI), the global leader in secure storage and virtualization solutions for the HP NonStop environment, is leveraging Gresham’s Clareti VTL tape infrastructure virtualization technology to expand its business in the open systems market.
“Gresham’s tape virtualization technology, designed from the ground up for the open systems market, delivers sophisticated solutions to enterprise backup and data protection management problems that were previously intractable. With TSI’s use of Gresham’s technology to serve the high availability HP NonStop space for over a year, and its current expansion into the open systems market on the Gresham platform, it’s clear that Gresham is able to solve the needs of a broad spectrum of enterprise customers,” said Steve Norall, Senior Analyst, Taneja Group.
Since 2006, TSI has been an OEM partner of Gresham Enterprise Storage. TSI’s ViTAL (Virtual Integrated Tape and Library) product is based on Gresham’s Clareti VTL, a tape virtualization director, and contains proprietary firmware which allows it to interface with the closed, proprietary Guardian™ operating system of the HP NonStop high availability platform. TSI has been selling the ViTAL solution successfully into the HP NonStop environments of major telecommunications and retail companies, as well as credit card processing firms and 911 emergency systems. The majority of companies that have NonStop implementations also have a variety of other platforms in their storage environments. The Gresham solution now enables TSI to address the tape management requirements of those platforms as well, and does so from a consolidated view.
“Gresham has an outstanding toolset with its ability to consolidate heterogeneous computing platforms for our customers. As a specialist provider of high availability storage solutions, TSI selected Gresham for its ability to meet the extraordinary uptime requirements of HP NonStop, and we immediately recognized the cross-platform capabilities of Gresham's open standard tape infrastructure virtualization solution. This was a crucial factor in our decision to OEM the product,” said Shawn Sabanayagam, CEO, Tributary Systems, Inc.
Gresham’s Clareti VTL delivers visibility, manageability, solution scalability, and by radically reducing operational costs for enterprise customers. Benefits include:
Cross-platform consolidation: central management of data protection systems for heterogeneous computing platforms.
Deep visibility into backup operations and predictive failure analysis: detailed reporting for future capacity planning, department-level chargeback facilitation, and identification of problems in the virtual tape backup infrastructure.
High Availability: lights-out operating capability due to hardware monitoring and remote messaging and alerting capabilities.
Optimal data protection performance: take advantage of industry-leading backup performance in open systems environments.
“We are excited to build on the success we have already experienced with TSI by deploying Gresham’s highly reliable and manageable technology with customers using HP NonStop,” said Ed Ahl, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Gresham Enterprise Storage. “We look forward to continuing our mutually winning partnership with TSI and enabling them in expanding their sales efforts to serve the data protection needs of a broader customer base.”
About Gresham Enterprise Storage
Gresham Enterprise Storage delivers data protection with vision, combining the visibility of comprehensive storage analytics with highly scalable and easily manageable backup and restore to optimize operating costs. The world's most successful enterprises, including many of the Global 500 and the world’s largest data centers, use Gresham Clareti VTL and Clareti EDT solutions to manage the unrelenting growth of data with ease, improve their backup/restore performance, and scale their environments cost-effectively to gain a competitive edge in some of the most challenging market sectors, including banking and finance.
About Gresham Clareti VTL
Gresham’s open systems Clareti VTL brings visibility, scalability, and manageability to existing third-party tape backup application environments by combining comprehensive storage analytics and reporting with advanced VTL features. Built on a scalable multi-node architecture, Gresham Clareti VTL minimizes the management costs associated with backup and restore operations in enterprise environments. Gresham’s Clareti VTL is the only open systems virtual tape library solution with integrated data protection management, heterogeneous (physical and virtual) tape library consolidation, and unified media management to make backup/restore operations more efficient.
About Tributary Systems, Inc.
Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) is the global leader in providing secure storage and virtualization solutions to the HP NonStop high availability platform as well as other enterprise computing platforms. TSI serves a global customer base of securities and ATM transaction processing companies, Fortune 500 banks, retailers, telecoms and healthcare providers. TSI also serves as the strategic partner and supplier of backup storage, library management software and connectivity solutions for HP’s NonStop Enterprise Division.
For more information, please visit www.tributary.com
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