Tributary Acquires Gresham Storage Director Product

Tributary Systems, Inc., in storage solutions for high availability computing platforms, acquired the Storage Director business from Gresham Enterprise Storage, the U.S. subsidiary of Gresham Computing, plc 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, AS/400, Power Systems 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 (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. 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."