SAND Searchable Archive and SAND Analytic Server Show Outstanding Performance on Sun's Grid Platform
MONTREAL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/11/06 -- 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(R) 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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