Gresham Announces Strategic Relationship with Rocket to Boost Tape Reporting for Global Users of IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager
June 15, 2010 - Gresham Storage Solutions (www.greshamstorage.com) and Rocket Software (www.rocketsoftware.com) today announced a strategic relationship that will allow managers of enterprise tape storage systems using IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to improve resource allocation and cost efficiency across their data storage infrastructure through enhanced tape library reporting leveraging Rocket's Servergraph products.
Christopher Young, Executive Vice President of Gresham says: "The partnership between Gresham and Rocket will benefit EDT and Servergraph customers alike. We are committed to making ongoing enhancements to our product lines providing richer and more meaningful information about the tape environment to our customers. The costs of managing an extensive tape library can easily run hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Partnering with Rocket means we now offer the business intelligence needed to allocate resources on a predictable basis as opposed to reacting to shortages and paying top dollar for new media such as tapes or drives."
Don Becker, Business Area Executive for Servergraph, says, "With the combination of the information provided by Servergraph and Gresham's EDT, the critical information backup administrators require to successfully manage their environment just got significantly richer. Administrators need key pieces of information to proactively manage their environments, and now they have it."
Young also notes that, "Our Enterprise DistribuTape software is the industry standard for enhancing tape library management in TSM environments among Global 2000 companies. The introduction of support for SCSI libraries in our Gresham Enterprise Media Manager (GEMM) product later this year significantly enhances our solution. Our products excel at streamlining, optimizing and simplifying tape management, and they deliver high performance through features like HBA load balancing. Reporting, though, has been a weakness of our products in the past. Partnering with Rocket Software gives us the tools we need to deliver a complete management experience."
About Rocket Software
Rocket Software (www.rocketsoftware.com) is a global software development firm that builds and services Enterprise Infrastructure products for the world's leading OEMs, networks and software companies and enterprises. The company's products complement and extend strategic infrastructure in the areas of: application modernization, business intelligence, compliance and security, consumer productivity, database servers, database tools, file transfer, mainframe productivity, network management, publishing and search, SOA and integration, storage management, terminal emulation, and text mining. Rocket is engaged in business and technology partnerships with IBM, EMC, RSA (the security division of EMC), HP Enterprise Services, Avaya, Motorola, and many others. Rocket Software is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.
About Gresham Storage Solutions
Gresham Storage Solutions (GSS) delivers data protection with vision, combining the visibility of
comprehensive storage analytics with highly scalable and easily manageable backup and restore
to optimize operating costs. The world's most successful enterprises, including many of the
Global 500 and the world’s largest data centers, use our Backup Virtualization Solution, Clareti® EDT —
our TSM tape and drive management solution — to manage the unrelenting growth of data with ease, improve their
backup/restore performance, and scale their environments cost-effectively.
For more information, contact:
Christopher Young - Executive Vice President
Gresham Storage Solutions
+1 512-407-2603
cyoung@greshamstorage.com
