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

Mr. Painter most recently led both the UK Marketing Services and Global Marketing Services Consulting and Delivery businesses at Experian Plc. He has extensive experience with SAND Technology, having headed up the company’s European operation for a number of years.

Mr. Pesner has extensive experience in financial advisory services and investment banking, including mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, investigative accounting, divestitures and debt and equity financing. He spent over 25 years with KPMG, was Chairman of Thorne Ernst & Whinney Inc. and served on the Board of Directors for Peat Marwick Thorne.

The founder/C.E.O. of several technology companies, Mr. Benn is skilled and experienced in setting strategic direction, business / tactical planning and execution, initiating and driving growth strategies, managing bottom-line profitability, acquisitions and divestitures, direct and channel sales and marketing, research and product development, project management and operational infrastructure.

“The addition of Mr. Painter, Mr. Pesner, and Mr. Benn to the board brings new industry knowledge and vision that will help SAND grow as a company”, said Tom O’Donnell, President and CEO, SAND Technology, “Our shareholders can be confident that the experience and judgment of our new directors will be a positive influence in guiding the company through the current economic challenges.”

“We are pleased with our results for the quarter,” notes Tom O’Donnell, President and CEO of SAND Technology. “However significant work remains to be able to report positive quarterly results on a normal recurring basis. A sense of urgency is being instilled in all SAND employees to change the company to a profit based mentality”

“I am optimistic about the future of SAND based on our expanded presence within our existing customer base and interest from potential new customers. We are working diligently to improve our productivity, operational efficiencies and product offerings”.

“Given the economic times we’ve faced this last year, SAND is satisfied that it did not fare far worse than it did. The downturn in the economy caused tremendous anxiety, far more cautious spending and massive budget cuts among our potential and existing customers. More importantly, during the last year, we have had several significant successes in closing key deals as well as expanding our presence within our existing customer base and in the critical SAP Nearline marketplace,” explained Arthur Ritchie, Chairman of SAND. “Given the changes in management at key customers, combined with the mergers and takeovers and cutbacks among large customers in key industries, we see significant opportunities for SAND. What is of major importance is the strides we’ve made in becoming a strategic partner with several industry leading customers and influencers over the last year. We strongly believe that SAND products are an enabling technology which can help our customers bridge the gap between their existing and target architectures without having to “rip and replace” existing systems and as a result to ensure smooth transitions, increase efficiency and substantial costs savings. As importantly, our solutions will provide meaningful insight to the management decision-making process critical during these changing times. This is becoming more evident based on the new business we are attracting directly from our customers and indirectly through our systems integrators and application vendors.”

Hamburg, November 3, 2009 – SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF), an international provider of data management software and best practices, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Business Objects Software Limited, Ireland to distribute SAP BusinessObjects software worldwide. According to the agreement, SAND is authorized to sell SAP BusinessObjects web analytics and reporting components bundled together with its SAND/DNA solutions for intelligent information management.

“We are excited to sign this agreement, which brings many potential benefits for customers in all industries,” said Christian Niemann, Vice President, SAND Technology Germany. “Combining the SAND/DNA Scalable Corporate Information Factory software solution with SAP BusinessObjects components like Crystal Reports, Xcelsius and Web Intelligence will allow our clients to build powerful web analytics and reporting environments on the foundation of a robust and efficient information management infrastructure.”

SAND Technology’s SAND/DNA Scalable Corporate Information Factory includes a nearline software component that serves as a repository for corporate detail data, enabling implementation of a truly data-centric enterprise data architecture that allows organizations to face the challenges of data growth and regulatory compliance efficiently and cost-effectively.

Implemented as an extension to existing enterprise data warehouse architectures, the SAND/DNA Scalable Corporate Information Factory makes it possible for organizations to guarantee satisfaction of all Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with users, while helping to keep TCO under control by minimizing hardware and administrative resource requirements.

On behalf of the entire board and employees, Mr. George Wicker, member of the board, offered the following: “Arthur’s passion and dedication for the Company, its employees, customers and partners has been unyielding. He has worked tirelessly to build SAND over the years. We sincerely thank him for his leadership through SAND’s formative years and in building the Company’s unique culture and outstanding asset base – its people, its technology and its loyal customers.”

Tom O’Donnell, current board member and a major shareholder of SAND, will be appointed as President and CEO effective November 1, 2009. SAND will continue to be headquartered in Montreal. Tom O’Donnell is the CEO and founder of Edge Specialists – an independent software vendor of derivative trading tools. He is a co-inventor of two extensive trading software patents, a C.P.A. and a graduate of Harvard Business School. His extensive career in the software and financial markets makes him highly qualified for his new role.

The Company is being positioned to strengthen its financial growth and customer penetration. Arthur is pleased with SAND’s progress to date and especially by accomplishing a huge milestone in becoming a strategic partner with several major international companies, as well as achieving increasing sales of SAND’s high performance Nearline 2.0 solution within the rapidly increasing SAP BW market. He went on to say that Tom’s experience and sharp business acumen will be a valuable asset in taking SAND to the next level and leading the Company through the challenges and enormous opportunities ahead.

“I am very proud to have a partner like TG-Energy representing SAND in this region”, said Linda Arens, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing for SAND Technology. “TG-Energy’s extensive expertise in SAND’s products, and the high quality of the solutions and services they deliver has earned them the respect of their customers.”

TG-Energy provides their customers with solutions for Information Lifecycle Management, weblog management and mining, archiving, enterprise data warehouse and internet banking, all of which incorporate SAND/DNA data management technology. 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.

An important SAP NetWeaver BW warehouse at the chemical company was growing at a rate of a terabyte every quarter due to the addition of new applications, integration of data from new sources and new requirements for data to be available for longer periods. To manage this growth, the company decided to adopt an Information Lifecycle Management strategy as recommended by SAP, using a Nearline Storage (NLS) solution that would allow older, less frequently used data to be moved out of the main database while still keeping it accessible for reporting purposes when required. They chose the software-based SAND/DNA Nearline solution on the basis of its high rates of data compression and anticipated storage cost savings, as well as the performance benefits that would result from substantially reduced database size. Since its implementation in their production environment, the SAND/DNA solution has brought improved data loading and reporting performance, heightened system availability due to reduced downtime for backup and restore operations, better data availability, and reduced storage costs.

“We are extremely pleased to have this chemical company as a customer”, said Linda Arens, Vice President, Marketing for SAND Technology. “Like most large organizations in all industries, they are experiencing an explosion in the amounts of data they need to manage in their data warehouses. The SAND/DNA Nearline solution allows them to cope with this very rapid data growth while preserving operational performance and keeping costs down – and without disturbing their existing SAP NetWeaver BW environment.”

As data volumes grow and user demands intensify, SAP NetWeaver BW users are facing significant data management challenges and increased costs. In accordance with SAP’s recommended Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy, SAND Technology has teamed with SAP to integrate SAND/DNA software as a nearline solution for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0. Designed to relieve SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 from the need to keep large amounts of infrequently used data in the online repository, the SAND/DNA Nearline solution stores this data in a tiny footprint while maintaining easy data accessibility. The data is stored in an easily searchable but highly compressed format which significantly reduces overheads and costs typically associated with retaining considerable amounts of historical data.

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.

The customer currently has approximately 6 TB of data, with annual growth projected at 1TB. They needed to keep their data warehouse costs at the budgeted level while maintaining on-demand access to any data that might be required. Because the company outsources their IT infrastructure, the IT services group was also looking for a solution that would reduce the amount of storage required to hold the data while keeping it easily accessible. The software-based SAND/DNA Nearline solution was chosen because of its ability to store very large amounts of data in a highly compressed format while maintaining easy accessibility, leading to reduced storage requirements and optimal system performance for standard data management tasks.

“We are very pleased that we continue to sign new customers in a variety of industries”, said Linda Arens, Vice President, Marketing for SAND Technology. “This confirms that organizations continue to face challenges in managing large, continuously growing amounts of data, and are turning to SAND to help solve these issues efficiently and cost-effectively.”

As data volumes grow and user demands intensify, SAP NetWeaver BW users are facing significant data management challenges and increased costs. In accordance with SAP’s recommended Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy, SAND Technology has teamed with SAP to integrate SAND/DNA software as a nearline solution for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0. Designed to relieve SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 from the need to keep large amounts of infrequently used data in the online repository, the SAND/DNA Nearline solution stores this data in a tiny footprint while maintaining easy data accessibility. The data is stored in an easily searchable but highly compressed format which significantly reduces overheads and costs typically associated with retaining considerable amounts of historical data.

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.

Montreal, Canada August 4, 2009 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF), an international provider of data management software and best practices, today announced that Thomas Cook Group UK & Ireland, part of one of the world’s leading travel groups, has successfully migrated its holiday search engine application based on SAND/DNA technology to a new Sun blade server environment. The system went live during a peak usage period, and immediately delivered a four-fold performance improvement for complex searches and heavy real-time update processes of the company’s holiday database.

While Thomas Cook’s SAND/DNA system has functioned continuously without failure since its initial implementation in 2001, replatforming to a Sun blade server running the Sun Solaris operating system enables the company to better support a vastly enlarged and continually growing number of online users. Specifically, because SAND/DNA performance tracks processor speed to offer near-linear scalability, the blade environment will enable them to take full advantage of advances in processing technology to increase data throughput in the system.

“Thomas Cook UK & Ireland has worked with SAND since 2001, and its products provide the backbone of our Tour Operating systems. Following the merger with MyTravel and the major increase in growth and customer transactions, we were faced with a huge challenge to maintain an excellent level of system performance. With SAND Technology’s help we have succeeded in providing a resilient platform that will grow with the company and continue to provide our valuable customers with the service they have come to expect from us,” said Pat Norman, Director of IT at Thomas Cook UK & Ireland.

“We are very pleased to have worked so closely with Thomas Cook over the past eight years,” said Richard Grondin, SAND’s vice-president of R&D and Deployment. “SAND recommended that Thomas Cook move to a blade environment to achieve better performance, reduce their total cost of ownership and provide a ‘greener’ solution with a smaller storage footprint. SAND’s software solution on Sun delivers the performance improvements the company needs to serve its rapidly expanding market. Using this new environment, Thomas Cook can support over 3000 users and execute multiple millions of update requests per day while offering response times of less than 1 second in 99.5% of cases. These metrics clearly demonstrate that SAND/DNA’s CBAT technology can be used to support complex real-time analytic environments.”

“Thomas Cook UK & Ireland has been a valuable customer,” said Peter Olding, SAND’s UK Sales Director. “Working with Thomas Cook UK & Ireland, we continue to address ongoing challenges with increasing numbers of users and transactions that require high query performance, system availability, and data accessibility. We are very pleased that SAND is able to meet their demands and scale with them as their environment grows.”