Montreal, Canada – May 25, 2011 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column database software today announced a strategic partnership with Averna, a global test engineering company for communications and electronics device makers worldwide.

Averna will be embedding SAND’s patented, high-performance analytic database in their test analytics product offering, providing scalability and ensuring optimal use of resources for their users.

“I’m very pleased to have Averna as a partner of SAND”, said Mike Pilcher, Chief Operating Officer of SAND. “Averna’s broad experience, expertise and recognition in the market, combined with SAND’s industry leading technology, will deliver high performance and massive scalability to customers.”

“Averna’s customers are leading world manufacturers of high-tech products. They need to get their products to market as fast as possible and with the highest quality levels possible. The SAND analytic database provides performance and scalability that are second to none and we look forward to partnering with them and leveraging their technology for our customers,” said Paul Bach, Vice-President, Worldwide Sales and U.S. General Manager, Proligent.

###About Averna

Averna ([www.averna.com](http://www.averna.com)) delivers industry-leading test solutions and services for communications and electronics device makers worldwide, accelerating product development and driving innovation. Averna’s automated test equipment (ATE), award-winning Proligent enterprise test platform and state-of-the-art RF test instruments overcome global test and manufacturing challenges while ensuring major benefits – from design through production.

Averna has multiple centers of expertise worldwide, supported by Channel Sales Partners across North America, Europe, and Asia. Incorporated in 1999, Averna is a 2010 Best in Test award winner, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2009 winner, and since 2007 has been honored as one of the Deloitte Fast 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America.