Gresham Storage completes another successful year

1 February 2012 – Denver, London, Sydney – Gresham Storage completes another successful year, extends EDT to all TSM users and makes new hires

Gresham Storage is pleased to announce another year of solid performance for fiscal 2011 together with further investment in the business and product for 2012 and beyond. Despite tough economic conditions in our global customer base, we continued to deliver excellent financial performance for fiscal 2011 whilst also increasing investment in our business.

Product innovation – we are pleased to continued extension of EDT to the wider Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) market, with SCSI drive, Fibre Channel and Virtual Tape environments now being controlled by our major customers. EDT v10 now offers all TSM users the opportunity to benefit from this very robust and fully functional tape environment management product.

New sales and technical hires – Gresham is pleased to announce the strengthening of its EDT sales and technical teams out of a new office in Parker, Colorado. Cori Mumford joins the team to help drive sales of EDT v10 across the TSM user base and David Miller as an experienced software technician focused on testing EDTv10.

Christopher Young, EVP Gresham Storage, commented:
“2011 was a great year for Gresham Storage, with a strong financial result, the launch of EDT v10 and a strengthening of our team. Customer feedback on our new EDTv10 software has been excellent and I look forward to further deployments in 2012. If you are using TSM, then you should be talking to us about EDT v10.”

About Gresham’s flagship product, EDT:

Enterprise DistribuTape (EDT) allows Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) users to:

• achieve optimal tape resource utilization
• minimize tape asset access times
• create highly resilient tape environments
• eliminate performance bottlenecks
• maximize data throughput

EDT achieves this via its HBA load balancing, data path failover and library virtualization features combined with intimate knowledge of the capabilities of a user’s chosen tape hardware. EDT enables organizations to better control CAPEX and OPEX within their tape environment and take full advantage of tape by making smarter use of tape assets, while reducing their total cost of tape ownership.

About Gresham Storage

Gresham Storage is a specialist provider of software based tape optimization and management solutions to customers seeking to build robust, easy to manage, high performance backup and archive environments. We have a well-established customer base that spans the globe with many household names counted amongst the customers we serve. Gresham Storage is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gresham Computing plc, an international software and services company founded in 1969 and listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (GHT.L).