MONTREAL, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SAND Technology Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNDTF), an international provider of data management software and services, announced today that its South Korean reseller, FreeSat, has continued to expand its Financial Services portfolio with new implementations of the SAND/DNA product suite using FreeSat's consulting services. FreeSat specializes in providing Business Intelligence consulting services and innovative IT solutions for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), and has been a key SAND reseller for five years. During the last quarter, FreeSat has signed Kookmin Bank to use SAND/DNA Access for their archiving project.

"Even in these challenging economic times, customers continue to struggle with growing amounts of data and decreasing budgets," said Linda Arens, Vice President, Global Alliances and Marketing, SAND Technology. "We are very fortunate to have FreeSat representing SAND in this region who can continue to sell solutions and has the respect of their clients and is viewed as a trusted advisor."

"We are very pleased to act as SAND's reseller in South Korea and the Asian region," said D.O. Shin, Managing Director of Sales for FreeSat. "Because of its ability to manage huge volumes of data with minimal hardware and administration requirements, SAND/DNA software is a key component of the solutions that we offer our customers."

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.

About SAND Technology

SAND is an international provider of intelligent information management software and best practices. The SAND/DNA product suite scales to help any size enterprise cope with exploding data requirements, now and into the future. SAND/DNA Access allows for retaining all potentially relevant data in a tiny footprint while providing instant access to just what's required. SAND/DNA Analytics allows for complex what-if analysis to meet any planned and unplanned business need.

SAND/DNA solutions include CRM analytics, and specialized applications for government, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, retail, transportation, and other business sectors. SAND/DNA has achieved "Certified for SAP NetWeaver" status and SAND Nearline Integration Controller has achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" status.

SAND Technology has offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Central Europe.

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SOURCE SAND Technology Inc.