Who are Northern

Northern Software is a pioneering developer of Windows-based storage management software. Northern has focused on storage management solutions since its inception in 1995. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with a North America base in Tampa, Florida, Northern's software is available in 52 countries worldwide, currently serving a 28,000 + global customer base.

From the very beginning, Northern's business model has been steeped in the "Swedish tradition": sleek, functional engineering, products that offer power, simplicity and value, and unflagging customer service.

NORTHERN's core objective is to provide organizations worldwide with dependable and efficient storage management, improved network performance, sustained data availability and increased workforce productivity. For over a decade, Northern has provided enterprise storage solutions for a cross section of the world's most prominent organizations - indeed, 61% of the Fortune Global 100 use Northern software.

Over-burdened system administrators look to Northern's software solutions to automate a range of storage-related tasks, affording them more Time to Manage and enhancing their value to the organization. Organizations embrace Northern's flexible, policy-based approach to SRM, which enables them to better align storage with business objectives - a bottom-line approach that simplifies management, improves system performance and contains costs.

Northern Storage Suite is the company's flagship SRM product. Offering seamless integration wtih Windows Server Systems, Northern Storage Suite contains five core modules.

• Northern Quota Server
• Northern Reporter
• Northern Storage Portal
• Northern Chargeback
• Northern Storage Assistant

These modules are offered within a flexible framework, addressing each phase of the storage lifecycle.

NORTHERN has addressed the needs of over 28,000 organizations in 52 countries. The company's family of "Time to Manage" software has been implemented in a wide range of diverse and demanding business environments, including:

Microsoft, NASA, PacBell, GE, GM, Intel, Georgia Pacific, Merrill Lynch, Burger King, Abbott Labs, Dell, Compaq, Digital, Hewlett Packard, Northrop Grumman, John Deere, Caterpillar, Bank of America, Daimler-Benz, Siemens, JCPenney, Eastman Kodak, Lucent Technologies, AT&T, NCR, Alcatel, Ericsson, Cessna Aircraft, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Anheuser Busch, Mutual Omaha, SoftImage, Kraft Foods, Nestlé, OmniPoint, Andersen Consulting, EuroTunnel, Vickers Defence, BMW, Harley-Davidson, Volvo, SAAB, Rolls Royce, Shell, BP, FINA, Pirelli, Whitbread, IKEA, Castrol, Glaxo Wellcome, Astra Roche, SAS Institute, PictureTel, Bose, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, IBM, Nokia, Eli Lilly, Banque de France, Lloyds Bank, MOD, ABN Amro, NorTel, Ford, DHL, UPS, Nynex, Citibank, and Walt Disney.

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