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StoreAge INTRODUCES SVM POLICY MANAGER FOR EXCHANGE

StoreAge Networking Technologies, an innovative provider of storage management software, announced at the MEC 2002 conference the availability of its SVM Policy Manager for Exchange, which fully automates the management of storage in Microsoft Exchange environments. Using a rules-based policy engine, SVM Policy Manager maximizes application uptime and data availability by enabling a wide range of business continuance, disaster recovery, application testing, and backup activities to occur without taking Exchange systems offline.

SVM Policy Manager simplifies the administration of Exchange systems in storage area network (SAN) environments by centrally managing, protecting and monitoring all Exchange storage resources anywhere within an enterprise. As a snap-in to the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), SVM Policy Manager uses the familiar Exchange user interface, and enables each organization's "best practices" for Exchange storage management to be encapsulated in policies that are automatically executed as directed. Key business advantages of SVM Policy Manager for Exchange include:

• Dynamic, on-the-fly expansion of Exchange storage capacity while systems remain online, eliminating many of the availability and performance issues associated with data growth.
• Instant data recovery and online rollbacks to previous points-in-time via snapshots of Exchange databases. Snapshots may be automatically created as frequently as desired based on user-defined schedules.
• Zero-downtime backup, which combines data snapshots with an organization's existing backup software, allowing backups to "occur in the background" while Exchange applications remain online and available for normal use.
• Accelerated testing of new versions of Exchange using copies of production data, enabling more thorough testing for improved application uptime and lower post-deployment support costs.
• Enhanced cluster scalability and availability by removing the technical roadblocks imposed by volume and port limitations, and eliminating common sources of storage disruptions during cluster node failover.

"Few popular applications gobble up storage at the rate Exchange does," said Dan Tanner, Director of Storage Research at Aberdeen Group, "and few administrative tasks are as worrisome as storage management. By automating Exchange storage management via policies, StoreAge SVM Policy Manager for Exchange relieves enterprises and administrators of a great deal of work and worry."

"StoreAge is clearly familiar with the day-to-day issues of administering Exchange 2000 storage infrastructures," said Chris Baker, Lead Product Manager for Exchange at Microsoft. "SVM Policy Manager for Exchange encapsulates an organization's best storage management practices in policies that are automatically executed, further simplifying the administration of Exchange 2000 systems."

"As messaging solutions such as Exchange become more critical to daily business operations, the costs associated with any type of application downtime or performance degradation can add up quickly," explained Mark Spowart, president of StoreAge Networking Technologies. "By automating the management of the Exchange storage infrastructure, SVM Policy Manager for Exchange enables organizations of any size to apply industry best practices in a uniform and consistent manner, significantly reducing the total cost of Exchange ownership.

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 chapters of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and of SNIA's IP Storage Forum. For additional information, please visit the StoreAge Website at www.store-age.com.