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Tarmin Awarded 5-Star Rating in CRN’s 2014 Partner Program Guide

Annual guide recognizes the very best channel partner programs in the market


Boston, Mass. – March 17, 2014 – Tarmin, a global pioneer of Data Defined Storage solutions, today announced it has been awarded a 5-Star rating in the CRN 2014 Partner Program Guide. The annual directory is the definitive listing of technology vendors that service solution providers or provide products through the IT channel. The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

Tarmin is committed to building and supporting the channel by partnering with technology partners to deliver complete solutions that utilize the GridBank Data Management Platform to address today’s key unstructured data and storage growth challenges. GridBank is the industry’s premier Data Defined Storage solution, a new market category that takes a data centric approach to data management, focusing on the unlocking the value of information as an asset and strategic business enabler. This new market enables our partners to offer broader functionalities to existing customers to create new market opportunities, on premise or in the cloud. Value Added Resellers interested in partnering with Tarmin as part of the Tarmin OverDrive Program (TOP) can contact the company at http://Tarm.in/partner.

To determine the 2014 5-Star recipients, The Channel Company’s Research team assessed each vendor’s application based on investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support and communication.

“Solution providers have a lot of choices when it comes to selecting vendor partners. Identifying the right vendor, with the right technologies, and the right approach can make all the difference,” said Robert Faletra, CEO, The Channel Company. “Our annual Partner Program Guide and 5-Star rating recognizes the very best channel programs available in the market today to help solution providers determine which vendor delivers the best partner elements for their individual business goals.”

“Tarmin is honored to have received this award which recognizes our focus and commitment to building and sustaining effective and profitable channel partners,” says Shahbaz Ali, CEO and president of Tarmin. “We will continue to enable our partners to deliver unparalleled value to their customers and to advance their success in the emergent Data Defined Storage category.”

The 2014 Partner Program Guide will be featured on CRN.com and the 5-Star Partners listing will be highlighted in the April issue of CRN.

About Tarmin

Tarmin Inc., the leading pioneer of Data Defined Storage solutions, which unlock the value of data as a strategic business enabler, delivering a massively scalable, transparent and unified approach for consistent data management, storage, retention, security, search and analytics across cloud and traditional storage infrastructure. The Tarmin GridBank Data Management Platform empowers organizations to store, protect and gain value from data as a competitive business asset, no matter its size, location or cost by uniting application, information and storage tiers into a single, integrated data centric management architecture.

About The Channel Company

The Channel Company is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation, with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED, and SharedVue. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at www.thechannelcompany.com.