SGI and Atempo Enter Into Worldwide Reseller Agreement

"Working with Atempo was the obvious next step to deliver a comprehensive and integrated storage solution to our customers," said Ajay Anand, Director of Marketing, Storage Solutions, SGI. "Time Navigator coupled with SGI storage solutions will arm customers with the tools they need to implement a Data Lifecycle Management strategy while cutting costs and maximizing resources." Atempo's Time Navigator offers an integrated data protection and data retention solution for large, data-intensive SGI(R) Data Migration Facility (DMF) environments and overcomes the challenges of protecting migrated data. Time Navigator also supports SGI(R) Altix(TM) servers running 64-bit Linux(R) on Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors. "We are pleased to have an industry leader like SGI sell our Enterprise data protection software. Thanks to this agreement, more companies will be able to benefit from Time Navigator's advanced data protection capabilities to secure data in their environment," said Thierry Flajoliet, President and CEO, Atempo. "SGI has the vision and resources to fully leverage Time Navigator as an integral part of their complete storage solutions." Time Navigator, an enterprise-class solution designed to meet the most demanding data protection needs, will enable SGI customers worldwide to manage large volumes of data. Built upon an open, highly scalable architecture, the Time Navigator provides advanced backup, recovery and archival capabilities that fully leverage the latest SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solutions.