Expert Opinion
“GridBank 1.5’s innovative design
will completely alter the management paradigm for SharePoint. Leveraging
its robust encryption, enterprise-strength secure user access control,
seamless SharePoint integration, and strong administrative capabilities,
GridBank will ensure complete data security and data integrity for
SharePoint deployments, while substantially lowering the costs of
SharePoint. GridBank 1.5 extends Tarmin’s industry leading
position in the active archiving market with a solution that provides
easy, online access to any kind of unstructured data.”
Arun Taneja
Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group
April 2009
Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group
April 2009
“Enterprises large and small are dealing with
tighter IT budgets and are expected to do more with less. Tarmin's
GridBank 1.5 solves the out-dated approach to managing data by
delivering policy-based data and storage management for files and
SharePoint data. GridBank is positioned to substantially reduce storage
capital and operating expenditures.”
Noemi Greyzdorf
Research Manager Storage Software, IDC
May 2009
Research Manager Storage Software, IDC
May 2009
“This early use and expanding interest is a
result of the rapid growth in archive environments for compliance,
E-discovery, and business intelligence processes. When managing their
archived data, customers want flexible storage options, including
capacity available via the cloud. GridBank 1.5’s feature-rich
platform enables these customers to shift some of the archive storage
management burden to a trusted cloud storage service provider and
makes it is easy for these organizations to take advantage of the cost
savings that result from archiving and migrating data from expensive
primary storage to cost effective cloud-based storage.”
Brian Babineau
Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
June 2009
Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
June 2009
“Tarmin has established itself as a key vendor
that resellers and end users want to work with. By building on GridBank’s
active archival solution with its new strong SharePoint feature set, the
channel wants to become a Tarmin partner for the strong revenue
opportunities, while customers want to deploy GridBank to reduce costs,
meet legal needs, and solve data management problems.”
Keith Humphreys
Managing Consultant, euroLAN
May 2009
Managing Consultant, euroLAN
May 2009
“Tarmin is positioned to change how enterprises
manage the life cycle of file-based information. GridBank™ delivers
a comprehensive active archival software and intelligent storage foundation
in one solution. With GridBank, end users will no longer need to purchase
and deploy several point products from multiple vendors.”
Noemi Greyzdorf
Research Manager Storage Software, IDC
Oct 2008
Research Manager Storage Software, IDC
Oct 2008
“GridBank™ provides a policy-driven,
object-based archival solution that automates the movement of file-based
data from expensive primary storage to much lower cost secondary storage.
GridBank also delivers the data retention, data preservation, audit
tracking, security, and rapid content search and retrieval that lowers
the cost of compliance and e-discovery. GridBank’s comprehensive
integration of an active archival and intelligent storage platform means
Tarmin can help solve customers’ archiving and information
lifecycle management needs.”
Brian Babineau
Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Sept 2008
Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Sept 2008
“Tarmin’s GridBank is a game-changing
active archiving platform that delivers a tightly integrated single
solution. 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 from many different vendors.”
Arun Taneja
Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group
Oct 2008
Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group
Oct 2008
“…The GridBank solution solves companies
rapidly expanding archival needs.”
Laura Dubois
Research Director Storage Software, IDC
Aug 2008
Research Director Storage Software, IDC
Aug 2008
“…GridBank is differentiated by its
ability to provide intelligent archiving and storage management through
a single software solution; delivering cost, flexibility, and scalability
benefits to end-users.”
Lauren Whitehouse
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Aug 2008
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Aug 2008
“Despite the tight squeeze on IT budgets, most companies still keep too much information on expensive first-tier storage. Tarmin's GridBank effortlessly solves this problem for file and SharePoint-based data with policy-based automatic tiering of data from expensive primary storage to much lower cost secondary or cloud storage. GridBank 1.5 provides extensive E-discovery, search, and indexing for data on primary storage and legacy archives, supports over 500 file formats, and has extended its data classification reporting to primary storage. With GridBank 1.5, Tarmin has enhanced an already extensive and functionally-rich solution for today's storage and data management needs..”
David Hill
Principal, Mesabi Group
Aug 2008
Principal, Mesabi Group
Aug 2008
“…GridBank hits all the bases: a
cost-effective, scalable, secondary storage solution that includes
cradle to grave archive management features and is built around a
services oriented architecture that makes it easy to manage and share
files securely.”
Eric Burgener
Senior Analyst, Taneja Group
Aug 2008
Senior Analyst, Taneja Group
Aug 2008
“Today’s economic climate means businesses
are looking to cut their IT costs, at the same time increasing regulation
means the demand for data centre storage capacity continues to increase
rapidly. The cost per gigabyte of storage hardware is getting cheaper
all the time, but most is incurred cost in managing the finding stored
information, this requires powerful management tools. Tarmin's newly
launched GridBank looks to be a comprehensive sets of storage management
tools, handling ILM, storage TCO, secure archiving, compliance and staff
productivity.”
Bob Tarzey
Service Director, Quocirca
Oct 2008
Service Director, Quocirca
Oct 2008
“By partnering with the channel to expand its
customer base, Tarmin will stay focused on GridBank development and company
growth - a proven strategy for start-up expansion. GridBank is a unique
product for resellers, allowing channel partners to offer a single solution
that addresses a number of critical issues traditionally addressed with
multiple point products. This not only resonates well with IT
administrators, but delivers a product that substantially reduces CAPEX
and OPEX - a huge issue for IT in today's economically uncertain
climate.”
Keith Humphreys
Managing Consultant, euroLAN
Oct 2008
Managing Consultant, euroLAN
Oct 2008
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Eric Herzog
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