DALLAS, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Tributary Systems, Inc., a global leader in storage solutions for high availability computing platforms, announced that they have acquired the Storage Director business from Gresham Enterprise Storage, the U.S. subsidiary of Gresham Computing, plc (GHT - London Stock Exchange) effective October 16, 2009. The transaction includes the Storage Director technology, product and related assets. Through the acquisition of Storage Director, TSI is able to expand its storage solution offerings to IBM servers (iSeries(TM), AS/400®, Power Systems(TM)) as well as Windows®, Linux®, and UNIX® operating systems. Prior to the acquisition, Tributary Systems used the Storage Director core software engine in their ViTAL(TM) (Virtual Integrated Tape and Library) product. The ViTAL product has been a commercial success for Tributary Systems since its introduction to the market in 2006. Many Fortune 500 customers have purchased the ViTAL product for their local and remote site data backup, backup window reduction, total cost of ownership reduction, ease of operation and to meet their disaster recovery needs.
Storage Director is a high-availability, storage virtualization and consolidation solution for heterogeneous IT environments. The solution allows customers with datacenter environments with disparate, legacy storage hardware backing up servers running different operating systems to consolidate and reduce both storage infrastructure and maintenance costs. Storage Director also serves as a state-of-the-art next generation virtual tape library (VTL) solution with an advanced architecture enabling fully automated data backup and restore operations from remote, unmanned, lights-out datacenters.
Shawn Sabanayagam, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tributary Systems, Inc. said, "With the acquisition of the Storage Director IP and product, Tributary Systems has enhanced its capability to meet customer requirements in a much broader market segment." He went onto say, "We fundamentally believe that the ViTAL and Storage Director products are the most technically advanced storage virtualization solutions in the market place today and we intend to build on that position."
About Tributary Systems, Inc.
Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) is a global leader in the development of storage and virtualization solutions for fault-tolerant, high availability, enterprise computing platforms. Tributary Systems' fully integrated solutions are designed for the most demanding backup storage environments running mission critical applications. In addition, Tributary Systems offers Fortune 500 and middle market companies with state-of-the-art, next-generation business intelligence (BI) solutions.
Tributary Systems was founded in 1990 and has served over 3000 customers worldwide, both directly and through OEM partnerships with HP, Sun, Netapp and other major corporations. Tributary Systems has a customer base of Fortune Global 1000 and middle market companies in the banking, financial services, retail, telecommunications and healthcare industries.
A wide range of professional services including needs assessment, custom solution development, implementation, installation, performance optimization and technical support are also part of Tributary Systems' portfolio of service offerings.
More information on Tributary Systems, Inc. is available at www.tributary.com
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