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TERRASPRING ENABLES INTELLIGENT IT INFRASTRUCTURE

Terraspring Inc, an infrastructure software company that eliminates the inefficiencies created by static islands of computing, announced Terraspring 1.0 software. Terraspring automates the comprehensive deployment and management of heterogeneous computing environments while increasing IT visibility and control. With Terraspring, organizations can, for the first time, optimize efficiency through rapid activation and unlimited re-purposing of computing resources.

Three Fortune 500 companies are currently evaluating Terraspring software. Terraspring estimates that enterprise and service provider customers will see a two-to three-fold increase in computing and storage utilization and ROI in less than six months. With Terraspring, IT managers will be able to:

• Deploy comprehensive computing environments in minutes, versus weeks
• Automate over 80% of today's manual IT administration tasks
• Deploy new IT infrastructure projects at least twice as fast
• Lower IT computing infrastructure spending by at least 25% in 2002

"Today's businesses operate in an extremely dynamic and challenging environment. Organizations' infrastructures are up and running 24/7 and require high performance, security and reliability," says Larry Buchsbaum, Director, E-Sourcing Strategies at Yankee Group. "Terraspring offers infrastructure software to help meet such goals, as well as many others critical to the health of an organization's IT infrastructure."

"Most IT managers spend a majority of their time determining what computing resources they have, which ones are utilized and then acquiring and integrating new computing resources to meet their company's application needs," says Terraspring's co-founder and CTO, Ashar Aziz, and lead architect of the Terraspring offering. "Our approach was to enable a single integrated computing infrastructure that could be wired once to run multiple computing environments and then repurposed many times for a variety of uses, ultimately driving tremendous economies."

About Terraspring 1.0

With Terraspring 1.0, IT managers at service providers and Fortune 1000 enterprises can design, deploy, and control their heterogeneous computing environments from a Web-browser and then reallocate resources anytime, anywhere.

Users can also increase or decrease computing and storage capacity and Terraspring software automates all aspects of flexing including: network configuration, load-balancer and firewall reconfigurations, processor and storage activation, as well as appropriate software image loading. For the first time, IT managers can design multiple computing environment templates to be implemented, archived, or left pending without dedicating resources until they are needed at a specific moment in time.

Terraspring also provides the security and reliability required by enterprise IT and service provider organizations. The software enables secure multi-tenant environments where multiple customers or departments can co-exist on one contiguous infrastructure without access to each other's resources. Furthermore, with built-in monitoring and fail-over, Terraspring software automatically provides system swap-out in real-time of any failed component, making intelligent, self-healing systems a reality.

The Terraspring Offering Terraspring software is combined with implementation methodologies that leverage and consolidate an organization's computing, storage and network resources to form a flexible and adaptable Infrastructure Fabric (I-Fabric). This I-Fabric can support most any device, application, operating system or network topology.

An I-Fabric creates a foundation for flexible production computing and also enables solutions designed to meet other critical business objectives, including:

• Test and Staging -- Enables IT departments to consolidate their resources into a multi-purpose infrastructure that can be utilized again and again according to diverse yet temporal needs.
• Business Continuance -- Enables businesses to leverage their existing resources based on priority as part of their continuity plan.
• Disaster Recovery -- Allows IT managers to store templates of production computing environments for rapid recovery.

Pricing and Availability Pricing will be forthcoming with the availability of the software later this month.

About Terraspring

Terraspring is an infrastructure software company that solves computing resource problems faced by enterprise IT and service provider organizations. The company provides a comprehensive approach for the automated deployment, management, and control of heterogeneous computing environments. Terraspring is a Mohr, Davidow Ventures and Accel Partners funded company that has attracted additional investments from strategic relationships with EMC Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company. Terraspring is based in Fremont, Calif. For additional information contact Terraspring at 510-580-7724 or visit www.terraspring.com.

Contact Terraspring Inc, Fremont, Vicki Ferrando, 510-580-7782, Vicki@terraspring.com.