April 21, 2008
TARMIN TECHNOLOGIES POSITIONS ITSELF FOR GROWTH IN MANAGED SERVICES MARKET SPACE WITH APPOINTMENT OF KARL A. EDWARDS
Former Cable and Wireless Business Development Director, Karl A. Edwards, joins Tarmin Technologies as Vice President of Business Development for Europe; managed archival services targeted.
Ongar, United Kingdom and Palo Alto, Calif. (April 21, 2008) – Tarmin Technologies Ltd., developer of leading edge information lifecycle management solutions announces that it has appointed Karl A. Edwards to the position of Vice President of European Business Development and signals that it has completed key elements of its NOADS technology platform.
In his second decade of executive level capacity, Edwards was most recently responsible for overseeing Business Development across major contracts, encompassing 3rd party System Integrator relationships for Cable and Wireless’s massive Public Sector and System Integrator Channel. Previous posts include senior positions at Energis (acquired by Cable and Wireless in Nov 2005) where he was Director of the UK Government Secure Intranet project (GSi), a massive, multi-million Pound marquee UK e-government initiative.
“Karl comes to Tarmin at an exciting time for the company and myself,” noted Tarmin CEO, Shahbaz Ali. “His wealth of experience, his vigor and his continuously fresh perspective makes me confident in Karl’s continued success. For Tarmin, the recipe of our success thus far has been: Relevant, technologically superior whole solutions supported by exceptional people. We look forward to seeing Karl come into and grow his potential here at Tarmin.”
“I am very excited to become a member of the fantastic team and opportunity here at Tarmin”, said Edwards. “What brings me here is the desire to apply my relationships and skills to an emergent set of needs that I see as being one of the defining challenges and opportunities of the next 20 years; the management, en masse, of exponentially growing stores of information, in a way that is both efficient, secure and dynamic. My decision to join Tarmin was based in large part on the enormous dedication I see in the Tarmin team and their abundantly apparent technology savvy in the field. I have great confidence in the continued success of Tarmin and I look forward to driving an important part of that success.”
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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