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StoreAge SVM Certified With CA Smart BrightStor Portal

StoreAge Networking Technologies, an innovative provider of Enterprise SAN Management software, announced that its SVM (Storage Virtualization Manager) has been certified ca smart with BrightStor Portal, a new Enterprise Storage Automation solution from Computer Associates International Inc.

The ca smart seal is earned by partners who deliver eBusiness value and technical excellence through the integration of their products with ca technologies. The power of CA's BrightStor Portal to continuously monitor, measure and analyze the status of enterprise storage resources complements the strength of StoreAge's SVM to dynamically provision capacity, optimize performance and zone storage networks.

StoreAge's virtualization technology combined with the single point of storage management provided by BrightStor Portal further reduces the cost and complexity of administering storage infrastructure. The result is an integrated environment where best practices for storage management can be encapsulated in policies that are automatically executed whenever triggered. Customers can select and consolidate the management of appropriate storage resources, increase application uptime and performance by allocating these resources on a just-in-time basis, and replicate and back up enterprise data without impacting business applications.

"Storage virtualization is a key technology for both simplifying the administration of and reducing the costs of enterprise storage infrastructures," said Mark Spowart, President of StoreAge Networking Technologies Inc. "The tight integration between our SVM and CA's BrightStor Portal is a great benefit to our mutual customers, providing them with proactive, automated tools to manage their SANs."

As organizations adopt new storage technologies to cope with their growing volumes of data, they must develop strategies to effectively manage these technologies in conjunction with existing assets while keeping their overall IT operational costs down," said Gary McGuire, senior vice president, BrightStor solutions, CA. "Working closely with storage innovators like StoreAge, CA is providing these essential storage management capabilities through BrightStor Portal."

StoreAge's SVM dramatically reduces the cost of SAN storage and SAN storage management by centralizing the provisioning, performance optimization and protection of storage across heterogeneous hosts and storage devices. Key business advantages of SVM include more efficient utilization of SAN resources, simplified management of disparate storage assets, data replication for enhanced business continuity, accelerated application testing and deployment, online data restores, and non-disruptive backup to both disk and tape.

BrightStor Portal, a key element of CA's vision of Managing Storage without Boundaries, reduces the cost of managing storage by providing a single-pointof -management for the aggregation and monitoring of data, applications and storage subsystems, from laptops to mainframes, including large-scale SAN environments.

About StoreAge Networking Technologies

StoreAge Networking Technologies www.store-age.com, is a privately held company founded in 1999 as a spin-off from IIS Intelligent Information Systems and since then obtained over $28 million of equity investment from major strategic as well as leading financial groups.

The Company has offices in Irvine, CA and Nesher, Israel, as well as strategic partners in several European and Far East countries. StoreAge develops and provides innovative storage management software with a focus on Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture. StoreAge is a technology leader in storage virtualization using an Asymmetric design implemented through a SAN appliance approach. The Company seeks to increase and expand its cooperation with major OEM partners, storage systems integrators and storage service providers to deliver advanced storage solutions to the enterprise market. StoreAge is a member of both the US and the European Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and of SNIA's IP Storage Forum.