© 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice Gary Humphries HP StorageWorks Software Sales February 2006 v.2 Bringing it all Together: HP Storage Essentials Overview Contact details : ,

2 Agenda Today’s IT Management Challenges Storage Essentials Partner Eco System Storage Essentials Solution Packaging Forthcoming Enhancements Why HP

3 Capacity Access Rate Today’s Storage Management Challenges Infrastructure Silos over provisioned, under utilised and difficult to change Proliferation of highly specialised tools point tools Routine tasks people intensive Resource allocation managed in ad-hoc fashion Infrastructure specified in terms of hardware specification as opposed to service level Staffing levels remaining flat −Training costs means expertise limited to the select few In 5 years, between 2004 & 2009, the amount of needed capacity will grow 8-fold compared to what was sold in 5 years between1998 & It is very unlikely that the administration staff resources will grow at the same pace Source: IDC’s Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Forecast and Analysis

4 Simplification Standardization Modularity Increase Availability 2. Control Costs 3. Improve Staff Efficiency HP Storage Essentials Eliminates customization & automates change Based on SMI-S industry standard to support heterogeneous systems Modular architecture: base SRM product and value-add plug-ins Comprehensive, integrated Storage Resource and SAN Management solution built on the principles of HP Adaptive Enterprise Integration Integrated into HP System Insight Manager to deliver unified server/storage management

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6 Unequalled Partner Ecosystem Developer partners for array APIs and SMI-S interfaces Oracle and Sybase modules correlate databases with SAN path, capacity, performance Investor in AppIQ; partner for iSCSI management Developer partner for fabric APIs and SMI-S interface; common OEMs in HDS, SGI, and Sun Developer partner for HBA and switch APIs and SMI-S interface; common OEM in Sun Strategic OEM and joint development alliances; all have selected AppIQ as platform for open storage management Developer partner for SMI-S and SNMP interfaces Developer partner for ONTAP™ APIs and SMI-S interface AVVID partner for SMI-S and SNMP interfaces; common OEM in HDS Developer partner for HBA APIs Developer partner for switch APIs and SMI-S interface; common OEM in HDS Microsoft Partner Program; Management server support for Windows 2000, 2003; WMI support for managed hosts Strategic OEM and Development Relationships

7 Discovery Topology Reports Event Management Path Management CLI / API’s Capacity Performance Tool Kit for Custom Scripts Role-Based Security Historical & Future Trends Policy Manager HP Storage Essentials Packaging Required Purchase Exchange Viewer Oracle Viewer Sybase Viewer SQL Viewer Global Reporter Provisioning Manager Chargeback Manager Optional Value-add Plug-ins Report Designer HP Storage Essentials – Enterprise Edition File System Viewer

8 Unified Infrastructure Management Storage Essentials 2006 Roadmap Details Q2 ‘06Q4 ‘06 HP reserves the rights to change the availability of roadmap features Storage Essentials OVMS/Tru64 managed host HP Storage Server NAS Backup Mgr – Veritas Provisioning IOP enhancements LDAP support Localization French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean In development Released HP Storage Essentials v 5.1 Performance policies, reports and thresholds Chargeback (LUN based) User level file reporting EVA provisioning enhancements Cluster visualization and reporting SAN Change Management Oracle 10g database EFS Cluster NAS mgmt Data Protector integration Automation enablement iSCSI reporting Netware

9 Why HP Unique offering of Unified Server and heterogeneous Storage management Solution based on industry standards, not proprietary technology Modular open architecture Endorsed by other leading IT vendors Positive Analyst feedback “ No other vendor is providing consolidated storage and server management that is this tightly integrated.” - Steve Duplessie, Enterprise Strategy Group Consistently winning awards for best technology solution since 2003 Storage Essentials = Utilisation + Efficiency + Standardisation

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