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SAND SEARCHABLE ARCHIVE ENABLES EFFICIENT STORAGE OF TERABYTES

SAND Technology announced the general release of the SAND Searchable Archive product.

SAND Searchable Archive is a critical new technology that provides high data compression rates for very efficient data storage without compromising the ability for business people to quickly access the data using standard Business Intelligence tools and methods. It is designed to work as a complementary data archive with SAND's innovative analytic application platform, SAND Analytic Server, and with other vendor's databases and data warehouse products.

"Users should begin to incorporate database archiving as an aspect of overall data management and infrastructure maintenance," said Charlie Garry, senior program director at META Group, a provider of IT research, advisory services and strategic consulting. "We expect the database archive market to reach $2.4 billion by the end of 2007."

Data warehouses are now reaching multiple terabytes in size, with no apparent end in sight. New regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II and the German GDPdU taxation legislation now mean that this data has to be kept accessible for a number of years. SAND Searchable Archive is designed to help organisations manage this runaway growth while maintaining service levels to data consumers.

"The combination of continued dramatic increases in the amounts of business data with the new regulatory and compliance environment now requires organisations to keep more data for more time in a user-accessible form," said Arthur Ritchie, SAND's chief executive officer. "The SAND Searchable Archive was developed to allow organizations to fight warehouse tera-flation by efficiently keeping their historic data at lower storage costs, and still having it easily accessible to business users when it is needed."