Montreal, Canada – July 7, 2009 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of data management software and best practices, announced today that a major international energy and petrochemical company has chosen the SAND/DNA for SAP BI Nearline Storage (NLS) solution as the central component of an ILM strategy to control extremely rapid data growth in their SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) system. The solution will allow them to maintain their data warehouse at a manageable size despite the addition of terabytes of data every month, while still keeping all the data available for reporting and analysis and without increasing costs.

The team responsible for managing the largest of several SAP BW instances at the energy company had been predicting that their SAP BW environment would grow from 16 TB to about 120 TB by the end of 2010, if they continued without implementing an ILM strategy that included NLS. Because growth on this scale would have brought unacceptable increases in hardware and resource costs along with severe performance penalties, they sought a solution that would allow them to reduce the size of the main SAP BW database while maintaining the accessibility of all data for querying and reporting. After a proof of concept demonstrated that the SAND/DNA solution could offer 95% compression for nearline data while providing excellent performance for both data “nearlining” and querying, the company decided to implement the solution in their production environment, which runs on an IBM P5 server with the AIX operating system using Oracle as the main database.

“We are delighted to count this major energy and petrochemical company among our customers”, said Linda Arens, Vice President, Marketing for SAND Technology. “The current exponential explosion in data volumes in all industries presents a challenge for the traditional databases used in SAP BW implementations. The SAND/DNA for SAP BI nearline solution has been designed specifically to provide highly efficient storage and access to very large amounts of data, and makes it possible for organizations to quickly and easily implement the type of ILM solution that SAP recommends for controlling data growth. With their SAND/DNA solution, the energy company is now capable of managing the massive ongoing growth of data in their SAP BW system, without a corresponding increase in costs.”

SAND/DNA enables enterprise customers in all industries to cost-effectively retain massive amounts of compressed data in a nearline repository for extended periods, in accordance with any applicable business rules and regulatory requirements, and to rapidly retrieve information when needed. A centralized data management solution with unparalleled performance and storage efficiency, the SAND/DNA suite dramatically reduces costs and management complexity while ensuring continuous data availability. Organizations can create data marts on demand to respond to any analytic requirement with all enterprise data — current or historical, detailed or summarized. SAND/DNA’s advanced information management technology compresses data to typically 10 percent of its original size, while giving users the ability to query any attributes of the data without decompressing it first. This next-generation capability is ideal for satisfying enterprise compliance requirements as well as for leveraging valuable information in data warehouses.