AUSTIN, Texas and WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Joins Microsoft and IBM as only ETL Experts to Sit on Benchmarking
Subcommittee

Syncsort, a global provider of high-performance data integration
software, is pleased to announce its invitation to join the Transaction
Processing Performance Council (TPC), a non-profit corporation founded to
define transaction processing and database benchmarks. Syncsort will
participate in the TPC's ETL Benchmark subcommittee, where it will lend
expertise in performance and low total cost of ownership to drive industry
thinking and direction.

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"We are excited to welcome Syncsort as the newest member of the
Transaction Processing Performance Council," said Michael Majdalany,
spokesperson for the TPC. "One of the current goals of the TPC is to
disseminate objective, verifiable performance data to the industry by
defining and standardizing on an ETL benchmark. With Syncsort on the ETL
Benchmark subcommittee, we will be able to leverage their 40-plus years of
experience in this space providing transaction processing performance
solutions to 96 of the Fortune 100."

The TPC has recognized that there is no standard benchmark to measure the
performance of an ETL tool. Consequently, an ETL Benchmark subcommittee was
created in November 2008 after Syncsort partnered with Vertica and HP to set
a new ETL World Record. In the November benchmark, Syncsort's DMExpress
extracted, transformed, and loaded 5.4 TB of data at an unprecedented rate of
1.6 GB per second. Deployed on highly cost-efficient HP c7000 Blade servers,
the DMExpress solution also set a new cost standard of US$46 per GB hours, 93
percent less than those of previous record holders who set marks of US$636
and US$1,538 per GB hours.

Syncsort will join Microsoft and IBM as the only vendors on the 11 member
subcommittee with ETL expertise. Most of the members have expertise in
databases and hardware. "Syncsort's association with the TPC validates our
expertise in developing software with appealing price-performance
characteristics," said Harvey Tessler, Senior Vice President of Marketing and
Product Management at Syncsort. "The group views us as a key ETL expert in
the subcommittee and values our feedback for our vast field experience and
expertise around ETL use cases and deployments."

With the support of major systems and software vendors, the TPC has
earned a reputation for providing the most credible results in the industry
and is the only organization that provides consistent scores that enable end
users to clearly understand the actual cost of performance of a system. The
TPC is noted for benchmarks that are not exclusive to any particular system
or hardware, an extensive auditing process and whole system testing which
provides end users with cross platform performance comparisons.

Syncsort was ratified as a member with full voting rights by the TPC
General Council in the recently concluded TPC meeting in Austin, Texas.

About the TPC

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit
corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks
and to disseminate objective, verifiable performance data to the industry.
The TPC was established in August 1988 by eight leading software and hardware
companies. Approximately 55 TPC benchmark results are published by member and
non-member companies each year. The TPC currently has 25 full members
including Syncsort.

About Syncsort

Syncsort Incorporated has a 40 year history of providing compelling
solutions to software performance problems. Its high-speed data management
and data protection software is supported by world-class technical services.
DMExpress is Syncsort's high-speed, cost-efficient data integration software.
When it comes to large volumes of data, DMExpress makes ETL, data
warehousing, business intelligence and other large volume applications run
even faster. Syncsort is headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ. For more
information call +1-201-930-9700 (+1-877-951-FAST in the US and Canada) or
visit www.syncsort.com.