1. Emerging Technology Showcase Part Two

2. Policy-Based Storage Resource Management Steven Toole Vice President Precise-WQuinn

3. Hundreds of StorageCentral SRM storage audits reveal: –Desktop backup files –Uncontrolled growth –End user PST files –Computer games –Scores of copyrighted MP3 files –Offensive graphics, movies & jokes –Pornographic & other offensive GIF files Storage Explosion Effects Offensive graphics, movies & jokes Duplicate, triplicate, & quadruplicate files Outdated & orphaned files Unlicensed software applications VBS viruses…just plain DATA JUNK!

4. StorageManagement 80% of TCO Source: The Gartner Group Storage TCO

5. Storage Management Reduces TCO Source: IBM/Strategic Research Corp. While every MB of storage added is less than $1 to purchase it costs an additional $7/MB a year in labor and lost productivity to manage this storage. HumanFactor Unmanaged storage Managed storage Cost of labor

6. StorageCentral ® AASET ™ SRM Audits regain 30% - 50% storage space. Allocating controls spiraling disk usage through quotas. Screening blocks unwanted file types. Educating enables end user cleanup. Trending prepares for future planned growth. 360° Storage Resource Management Analyze/Report Control Real-Time Scaleable MonitorPredict Good Idea

7. 1. Preempt storage hardware purchases at 20x SRM software cost 2. Reclaim 30% to 50% of wasted network storage space 3. Protect against destructive worm viruses 4. Reduce storage growth rate by 30% 5. Save 25% of storage administrative costs 6. Eliminate frequent unplanned network outages caused by exceeded capacity 7. Reduce backup cycles by 33% 8. Eliminate the need for a dedicated storage administrator Eight Ways Customers Realize StorageCentral SRM ROI

8. StorageCentral SRM Testimonials “We RECLAIMED THREE TERABYTES OF WASTED STORAGE SPACE using StorageCentral SRM.” -- Bell Canada “StorageCentral SRM SAVED US OVER $1,100,000!” -- Lucent “StorageCentral SRM PAID FOR ITSELF RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.” - Boise Cascade “ Without StorageCentral SRM, our DISK PURCHASES WOULD LIKELY BE GROWING SOME 30 PERCENT FASTER” -- WRQ, Inc. “Automated assessment and allocation of storage space and the real-time enforcement of disk quotas, allowed us TO LOWER OUR IT COSTS AND ENHANCE OVERALL PRODUCTIVITY.” -- Microsoft

9. Precise-WQuinn: The Proven SRM Leader Microsoft’s provider of SRM technology Best SRM solution Target Award for 3 years World’s fastest growing SRM firm 15 years in storage management solutions 4,000+ customers in 50 countries 80 of the Fortune 100; 100,000+ licenses Market share leader Patented real-time SRM technologies World’s largest Windows SRM contract

10. Free Policy Field Research Paper wquinn.com Steven Toole Vice President Precise-WQuinn

11. Seize Control of Your Storage Kirby Wadsworth Chief Corporate Strategist Storability, Inc.

12. Key Questions Facing IT …find underutilized assets and put them to work? …manage multi-vendor storage without additional staff or training? … offer consistent and measurable quality of service to my departments? …centralize management of distributed storage capacity? …automate routine storage management tasks? How do I…

13. Simplifying Storage Management CUSTOMERCUSTOMER VALUE VALUECUSTOMERCUSTOMER VALUE VALUE CUSTOMERCUSTOMER VALUE VALUECUSTOMERCUSTOMER VALUE VALUE TIMETIME Comprehend Improve Asset UtilizationImprove Asset Utilization Reduce New InvestmentReduce New Investment Develop Storage StrategyDevelop Storage Strategy Establish Best PracticesEstablish Best Practices Improve Asset UtilizationImprove Asset Utilization Reduce New InvestmentReduce New Investment Develop Storage StrategyDevelop Storage Strategy Establish Best PracticesEstablish Best Practices Control Increase Staff EfficiencyIncrease Staff Efficiency Reduce Operation CostsReduce Operation Costs Increase Staff EfficiencyIncrease Staff Efficiency Reduce Operation CostsReduce Operation Costs Increase AvailabilityIncrease Availability Reduce Task RepetitionReduce Task Repetition Increase AvailabilityIncrease Availability Reduce Task RepetitionReduce Task Repetition Automate

14. Boston Firewall Austin - Sales San Francisco Rules Engine Policy Analysis Event Corr Provisioning Change Mgt Backup Mgt Problem Trk Monitoring Reporting Topology Trending Capacity Mgt Performance Asset Mgt Billing

15. Provisioning Change Mgt Backup Mgt Problem Trk Monitoring Reporting Topology Trending Capacity Mgt Performance Asset Mgt Billing Rules Engine Policy Analysis Event Corr Storability’s Integrated Solution Management Agents Aggregation Point Knowledge Base Management Agents Boston Firewall Austin - Sales San Francisco

16. Solution Components Smart Agents Central Manager Knowledge Base Smart Agents Provisioning Change Mgt Backup Mgt Problem Trk Monitoring Reporting Topology Trending Capacity Mgt Performance Asset Mgt Billing Rules Engine Policy Analysis Event Corr Management Console Administration Console Future Documented Access Methods Boston Firewall Austin - Sales San Francisco

17. Business Benefits ComprehensionControlAutomation $ $$ Return on Investment Leads to improved… UtilizationUtilizationEfficiencyEfficiency AvailabilityAvailability

18. Real World Experience As of Jan. 2002 Storability Operational Snapshot Storability Perform 63,000 Backups/ Week Week Over 250 Backed-up TB Per Month Manage over 110TB of Online Disk Storage Maintain 100% SLA Compliance Support more than 140 Companies & 1250 Servers

19. CreekPath Storage Expert Solutions Mike Koclanes CTO and Co-founder CreekPath Systems

20. CreekPath AIM™ Suite Application Intelligent Management CreekPath is developing storage management software to: Manage storage for business growth Ensure enterprise application uptime Control complexity of Networked Storage Resources Our software solution provides: Automated storage management Process and best practiced orientation Detailed audit trail Application based, policy storage management

21. CreekPath Investors $20+ million in equity and debt financing Telesoft – www.telesoftvc.com Sequel – www.sequelvc.comwww.sequelvc.com Exabyte CreekPath Management Team >100 years Executive Management Experience Victor Walker, President and CEO – 18-year veteran with Tantia Technologies, Groupe Bull and StorageTek. Mike Koclanes, Founder and CTO – 25-year IT veteran with Sun, Exabyte, Sclumberger and McDonnell Douglas Paul Cardosi, Founder and CFO – 14 years experience with Mitsubishi, Hewlett Packard, Apricot Computers and Exabyte Craig Reed, Founder and VP Engineering – 24-year veteran with Exabyte, Texas Instruments, OpenConnect, Convex Computer, Kulicke and Soffa, and Electro Scientific Industries Paula Dallabetta, Marketing Director - 20-year veteran with Hewlett Packard, USWest and Informix

22. CreekPath Partners

23. Stages of SAN Complexity Tape Library Servers SAN Fabric Disk Arrays Stage 3: Shared Fabric and Storage Array Servers SAN Fabric Disk Arrays Tape Library Servers Disk Arrays... Stage 2: Shared SAN Fabric Stage 1: No Sharing

24. Core Architecture StoragePool TM Advisor Advisor continuously monitors the storage resource status PAMs execute control actions and updates configuration information detected by Advisor Advisor sends workflow and control recommendations to system admins and PAMs Advisor policy and workflow engines process storage resource data Optimization Maximize SLAs Storage resource planning under constraints Policy Based Management Policy Rules Service Level Objectives Capture Best Practices Dynamic Data Model Element Discovery Element Monitoring Event Management and Analysis Complex Data Model StoragePool  Process Automation Managers (PAM) Closed Loop Control Proactive automation to meet SLAs Best Practice/workflow automation Storage Pool™ Scenarios StoragePool™ Application Advisors

25. Customer Benefits CreekPath AIM ™ Suite increases business continuity and lowers the total cost of ownership within a networked storage environment. Business continuity is achieved through: –Higher application availability, reduced complexity and human error –Increasing uptime through proactive response and process automation The lower total cost of ownership is a result of : –Increasing efficiency of storage personnel and assets

26. CreekPath Differentiators 1. Real-time storage fabric analysis Complex data model Service Level Management 2. Policy-based management of the storage fabric Policies derived from storage best practices 3. Closed-loop control More than just notification of an issue but an automated resolution with a detailed audit trail 4. Policy-based storage resource optimization Based on data protection, storage availability, storage performance, security and fail-over requirements

27. Network Unified Storage - NUS The Power & Scalability of a SAN with the Simplicity of a NAS Bill Chambers Co-Founder and CEO LeftHand Networks

28. Easy to manage Power & scalability of SAN Simplicity of NAS Block & file support on Gig-E Buy what you need, when you need Network Unified Storage – A New Network Storage Category A complete network storage solution!

29. What People are Saying about NUS…. “ The primary benefit to end users is that they don’t have to buy separate devices for the two types of data access which in turn, reduce storage management costs… and delivers the performance advantages of SAN with end user benefits of NAS ” David Thompson, INFOSTOR “This gives a user great deal of flexibility in determining to add additional units and manage them as a single entity provides an ease of management, the user does not need to manage additional elements when they scale their storage assets” Nancy Marone, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group “It’s like Legos. You just keep adding them. I can afford to do more” Jeff Pelot, Denver Health

30. Rapid Increase in Ethernet Speed Bandwidth time 10Gig 10bT 100bT GigE Emergence of Clustered Computing Solutions Rapid Decrease in Processor Costs $$ Time Enabling Technologies

31. A Pioneering Approach Direct Attached Storage Network Attached Storage Storage Area Network Network Unified Storage

32. NSM 100 Product Overview First Product in the NUS Category 1U Network Storage Module Integrated hardware and software solution First product in the emerging category of Network Unified Storage (NUS) Enables raw block transfer over Ethernet networks (AEBS™) Capable of either native file support (CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP) Consumes 1/3 rd the power of competing solutions

33. NUS Applications - Databases NSMs appear as a directly attached, single storage volume Leverage existing, installed Application Servers Additional NSMs expand the virtual single pool Gigabit Ethernet Network

34. In Summary New category – Network Unified Storage (NUS) Leveraging Today’s Technologies Block and File over Standard Ethernet Networks Expandable storage pool via virtualization / clustering