SAND Technology Demonstrates Top Speeds With Sun Solaris 10 on Sparc and AMD Opteron Processor-Based Systems

Market Wire, January, 2006

SAND Technology, Inc. (OTC BB: SNDTF), an international provider of enterprise information management solutions, today announced support for the Sun Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) and their AMD Opteron processor-based system. The SAND Searchable Archive, SAND Analytic Server, and SAND Searchable Archive for SAP® Business Intelligence (SAP BI) products are available on all of Sun's supported platforms, including the Solaris 10 OS for Sparc and AMD Opteron-based processor servers.

The combination of Sun's platform and SAND's software products will help customers reach their performance goals for managing and accessing multiple terabytes of data more easily than ever before. With the data enterprise growing year after year, and with the increasing need for users to be able to query this data for analysis, regulatory, and compliance activities, customers need solutions that will enable them to "find the needle in the haystack," how and when they need it.

SAND products have set new benchmarks for large-scale data management and analysis. Performance tests were carried out recently in conjunction with Sun at the Global Storage Center in Scotland using the Solaris 10 OS and Sun's AMD Opteron grid system. The tests demonstrated load speeds of greater than 1 terabyte per hour and query speeds of 2 terabytes per minute, processing 75 million rows per second, on a SAND customer data set of 165 terabytes consisting of ISP web log data, CRM data, and transactional data.

"We are pleased that SAND products have achieved new performance standards on the Solaris 10 OS and AMD Opteron-based processor," said Stephen Borcich, Vice President of Partner Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "SAND is a great partner of Sun's, and our mutual customers will be able to successfully manage and access their data in larger volumes, and far more quickly."

"SAND continues to be very pleased with the performance of our products on Sun platforms. SAND's linear load and query scalability on Sun platforms, along with data compression rates of up to 90%, allow customers to cost-effectively keep terabytes of data online or nearline to meet their changing business needs," said Linda Arens, Sr. Director, Global Alliances for SAND.

About SAND Technology

SAND's advanced analytic data management products empower users with a more comprehensive understanding of their business environment by providing better access to their business data. SAND Searchable Archive allows organizations to cost-effectively retain terabytes of data for extended periods of time, compressing data to 10 percent of its original size and allowing it to be queried without decompression. SAND Analytic Server is a high-performance multi-user data management platform that facilitates the development and deployment of complex online analytic applications. SAND Technology-based solutions include CRM analytics, financial analysis, regulatory compliance and specialized Business Intelligence applications for government and security, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, retail and other business sectors. SAND Technology has offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Central Europe. For more information, visit www.sand.com

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