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TANDBERG PARTNERS WITH CONDRE STORAGE
TO MARKET LTO FORMAT DRIVES AND
TAPE AUTOMATION PRODUCT LINES
POWAY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2005--InoStor Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA (OSE:TAD), has expanded its current partnership with Condre Storage Inc. to reach value-added resellers and system integrators with Tandberg Data's recently launched LTO tape drives and tape automation product lines.
The agreement reinforces Tandberg's commitment to the channel community and strengthens its product distribution in North America and Latin America. It also supports the company's overall global distribution strategy and builds on the existing InoStor network attached storage line sold by the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based distributor and integrator of computer hardware and software.
"This agreement enables Condre Storage to broaden our reach into the midrange reseller and systems integrator communities in North America as mainstream LTO tape technology moves from the enterprise into the SMB," said Dennis Maetzold, president of Condre Storage Inc. "Since Tandberg's tape automation and NAS product lines complement each other, it positions us to immediately benefit our VAR and system builder partners. In addition, our flexible business terms and sales and support expertise provides a vendor resource for resellers not currently offered by other distributors in the storage arena."
"This extended relationship positions Condre to take advantage of Tandberg's extensive experience in the storage industry, offering midrange and enterprise solutions, for the immediate benefit of their VAR and System Builder partners," said Ken Cruden, InoStor COO. "We are very excited about combining our strong product offerings with Condre's comprehensive channel programs."
Tandberg's LTO-based tape drive solutions include the most compact and fastest LTO-2 half-height drive in the industry - the 420LTO. As a licensee in the LTO consortium, Tandberg assures customers that the 420LTO drive is compatible with LTO1 and LTO2 cartridges written on other drives. Customers can also be assured that the data they protect and store on today's technology can be read on future generations of LTO drives with Tandberg's LTO roadmap supporting five generations of low-cost half-height LTO drive technology. Its comprehensive line of tape-based automation products includes single-drive autoloaders based on LTO and SLR(TM) technologies. The Tandberg StorageLoader(TM) 1U autoloaders provide the highest data density in the industry; up to 3.2TB with LTO2 in a 1U form factor.
InoStor's SATA-based InteliNAS appliances, based on both Linux and Windows Storage Server, offer proven, superior storage benefits for heterogeneous environments. InoStor is in a unique position in that it manufactures and supports primary NAS disk storage as well as the tape storage and software that may be purchased with the system.
About Condre Storage
Condre Storage Inc. is a distributor and integrator of computer hardware and software serving the VAR and Reseller community with a specific product focus in data storage. Condre Storage has carefully chosen a combination of product lines in Hard Drives, Tape Backup, RAID Systems, Storage Area Networking (SAN), and software to provide computer VARs and Resellers with a wide variety of storage solutions. Condre Storage's management, sales representatives, engineering staff, and support team, all have extensive backgrounds in the data storage market (over 130 years combined).
About Tandberg Data
Tandberg Data ASA is a leading global supplier of professional tape information storage products. Tandberg Data was established in 1933 and has been an innovator in the storage industry for over 25 years. Tandberg Data has partnerships with the world's leading system and application-based OEMs and markets its products through a worldwide channel sales network. In addition to marketing in the Americas through InoStor, Tandberg Data also has subsidiaries in France, Germany, Norway, Singapore and Japan, as well as affiliate offices in India and China (PRC). Tandberg Data ASA is a publicly held company traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker=TAD) with its corporate offices in Oslo, Norway.
About InoStor
InoStor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA, is the marketing and product development organization for the Western Hemisphere. It markets the highly reliable line of Tandberg Data tape automation, drives and media, using LTO(TM) and SLR(TM) technologies. The company also markets NAS solutions with the versatility of both disk and tape. The company's focus on software development has resulted in RAIDn(TM), an evolutionary step in RAID technology. For more information, visit www.inostor.com.
Contacts
Daly-Swartz PR for InoStor
Jeffrey Swartz, 949-492-0075
jeffreyswartz@dsprel.com
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