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CREEKPATH DELIVERS INDUSTRY'S FIRST INTEGRATED STORAGE

CreekPath announced the immediate availability of its flagship product; AIM Suite 2.0, the industry's first integrated storage management platform, enables enterprises to align storage objectives with business objectives by:

• Ensuring an IT business focus by providing application to device-level control.
• Enhancing accountability, measurability, controllability and security through policy-driven workflows.
• Reducing human error with CreekPath Guardrails
• a methodology that enables safe, automated storage management.
• Simplifying networked storage management through a single "pane of glass" interface.

The initial components of the CreekPath AIM Suite are:

• The CreekPath AIM Platform, which combines the key elements of traditional Storage Node Management (SNM), Storage Resource Management (SRM), visualization and virtualization. This solution provides auto-discovery, logical and physical topology mapping and monitoring of the health and performance of the network with application centric policy management.
• CreekPath Process Automation Modules; (PAMs), which automate processdriven, policy-based storage management and provisioning. By integrating best-practice, workflow process management into the PAMs, CreekPath enables administrators to have control over the level of automation that can be invoked by policies. CreekPath provides PAMs for all leading storage array vendors such as Hitachi Data Systems, EMC and Sun. "As a participant in the CreekPath beta program, we finally see a solution that addresses the entire life-cycle of our data," said a Director of Data Management at a leading-edge telecommunications company. "The AIM Suite, with its powerful workflow engine, can improve the clarity, integrity and productivity of our staff efforts and improved time to market. These factors can significantly reduce total-cost-ofownership of our storage assets."

"CreekPath has delivered the most advanced, active storage resource management solution in the market today," said Randy Kerns, partner at the Evaluator Group. "The AIM Suite's ability to safely automate labor-intensive IT processes, delivers immediate customer savings while reducing a company's capital expenditures and operating expenditures."

CreekPath's executive management team has unique and direct customer insight into the problems facing enterprise IT organizations. Mike Koclanes, Founder and CTO, is an IT veteran with more than 25 years experience, including roles as Director of IT and CIO at major corporations. CEO Victor Walker, serving as a US Army Reservist, is currently the CIO of US Army FEG 416th Engineering Command in Chicago, a 24x7x365 worldwide operation.

"This executive management team draws from years of storage experience with industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, HighGround Systems, StorageTek, Groupe Bull and Exabyte," said Victor Walker. "By utilizing extensive customer input as well as the team's exceptional skills and insights into the storage-management market, CreekPath has delivered a solution that customers can immediately see a return on."

"CreekPath's software represents one of the most complete offerings we've seen in the enterprise class," said Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst at Enterprise Storage Group.

About CreekPath Systems

CreekPath Systems is a software development company at the forefront of providing Enterprise Storage Management (ESM) solutions. CreekPath develops an integrated storage management platform for the global enterprise that reduces capital and operation expenses, while leveraging the complexity of evolving storage infrastructures. The CreekPath AIM Suite provides policy-based, process-driven enterprise storage management with policy enforcement for safe automation.

For More Information visit the CreekPath Web site at www.creekpath.com