Service Provider Getronics Opts for Tarmin GridBank

Tarmin Inc., a provider of
cloud-optimized data management and storage technologies, has been
chosen by international ICT service provider Getronics
Global Services B.V. to power its new data management and
storage services portfolio of offerings.

With data growth already straining a majority of SMBs, and data growth rates in excess of 100 % per year being
recorded in certain segments, the need for a solution
to manage organizations’ unstructured data throughout its lifecycle is growing
across industries.

The addition of a Tarmin-backed solution means that Getronics is now positioned
to help its clients better control growing storage costs while taking advantage
of their increasing stores of unstructured data.

Tarmin GridBank integrated solution will initially
focus in
three key areas of need
amongst Getronics customers:

• Enterprise private cloud
  as a Service with integrated eDiscovery capabilities in support of proactive
  litigation preparedness: Enables organizations to
  outsource the management of their non-production data to achieve cost savings
  and realize improved long-term data management with lower risk compared to
  in-house alternatives.
• Exchange email archives: Enables
  organizations to benefit from a superior functioning Exchange archiving
  solution for the streamlined management of TB of emails in a cost-optimized
  manner. Enterprise email archiving feature set includes identity
  management, integrated eDiscovery and secure mobile access to archived emails.
• Big data analytics with
  metadata management technologies: Enables organizations to benefit from data management capability via an object-oriented framework in support
  of geographically distributed information stores.

"We pride ourselves on our active
working relationships with our customers, ensuring that they have the most
transformative solutions available to meet their particular business needs,"
said Tim Patrick-Smith, CIO of Getronics. "Offering Tarmin as part of our next generation of application data
management and cloud-optimized storage offerings means that our customers will
have more options when it comes to overcoming unprecedented data growth and the
inherent costs that are associated with the storing of that data."

"We take our commitment
to working with partners around the world to develop integrated solutions that
help customers overcome the challenges of managing growing volumes of data in
innovative and cost-effective ways very seriously," said Shahbaz Ali, president
and CEO of Tarmin. "Teaming
with  an international service provider
like Getronics not only extends the reach of our GridBank software solutions
but it also allows us to help them deliver compelling, enterprise-class data
management offerings for their innovative cloud, email archiving and big data
applications."

The GridBank family of products addresses the key challenges faced
by organizations seeking to better manage their existing mixed infrastructures
or build their own modern multi-site, PB-scale, geographically distributed data
repositories. It provides highly available, application aware access to
information for users in pursuit of improved business operational efficiencies,
strategic new undertakings, proactive responses to increased compliance
mandates and analytic insight requirements. GridBank empowers clients to lower
costs and take benefit from its rich management capabilities for storing
enterprise scale workloads, as well as its information governance framework for
controlling risk and its big data analytic functionality for understanding
information.