Thousand Oaks Firm Honored by IBM

Tandberg Data Inc., based in the Westlake area of Thousand Oaks, has won the IBM Rochester Supplier Award for the quality of Tandberg’s tape drives, used as memory backups in two of IBM’s computer systems.

Tandberg, a unit of a Norwegian company, Tandberg Data A/S, was recognized for the products’ low failure rate and the company’s prompt response to service requests.

Per O. Dyb, president of the Westlake firm, said it is responsible for all U. S. marketing and servicing of the parent company’s quarter-inch cartridge tape drives, which are used in IBM’s AS/400 and RS-6000 systems.

He said Tandberg Data Inc. has doubled in size to 30 employees since moving to Ventura County in August, 1990. “We’re actively hiring administrative people and others,” he said.

Dyb said his firm has outgrown its present 12,000-square-foot plant on Townsgate Road and expects to move to larger quarters by next November. “We haven’t settled on a new location, but I’m sure it will be in Ventura County,” Dyb said.

Dyb said his unit accounts for most of the Oslo-based parent concern’s $55 million in annual U. S. revenues. At one time, he said, Tandberg Data Inc. was owned by German electronics giant Siemens AG.