MONOSPHERE INTRODUCES STORAGE HORIZON 2.3

Auto-Forecaster and Modeling Quality Index Enhance Storage Capacity Planning Automation

Redwood City, Calif. – Oct. 30, 2006 – MonoSphere Inc., creators of storage capacity planning software, today announced the newest release of its award-winning software, Storage Horizon™ 2.3.  The solution provides Global 3000 companies a unified view of current and projected storage capacity usage, which enables IT organizations to develop effective storage-capacity plans, maximize utilization of existing storage assets, and significantly reduce CapEx spending.

“The Storage Horizon roadmap is based on delivering two main benefits: reducing storage CapEx and providing automation so storage administrators can manage the rapidly growing capacity of large infrastructures in much less time,” said Frank Kettenstock, MonoSphere’s VP of marketing.  “Storage Horizon provides companies the insights needed to make prudent storage-infrastructure decisions, such as consolidating storage, increasing utilization, adding new subsystems, understanding the impacts of data protection schemes, planning for backups, and preventing out-of-storage emergencies.”

Storage usage can change significantly over time, making it necessary to frequently update usage forecasts to reflect new trends.  In large environments with tens to hundreds of thousands of volumes and filesystems, it is not feasible to manually generate all these forecasts.  To address this, MonoSphere’s latest version of Storage Horizon features an Auto-Forecaster.  Through user-defined templates, end users can schedule periodic forecasts to run automatically across all their host volumes and supported applications.  With update-to-date forecasts, Storage Horizon’s analysis allows users to keep a close watch on their entire storage infrastructure and get notifications of potential issues long before they become problems.

In addition, Storage Horizon’s forecasting engine will automatically assign each forecast a Modeling Quality Index, which uses advanced statistical algorithms to calculate the quality of the forecast.  Storage Horizon categorizes each index as either: Poor, Good or Excellent.  A Modeling Quality Index rating of “Excellent” would be assigned, for example, if a six-month forecast was generated on 6 months of collected data.  When running reports from a Storage Horizon analysis engine, such as the Storage Planner, users can specify a Modeling Quality Index of “Good or Better” to avoid making poor purchasing decisions based on insufficient data.

As with previous versions, Storage Horizon 2.3 does not require installation of software agents on application servers, so the system deploys in hours and collects storage usage data immediately.

About MonoSphere
MonoSphere provides agent-less storage capacity planning software that enables Global 3000 companies to forecast, plan and optimize their storage capacity.  Providing unprecedented visibility into an organization’s storage resources, MonoSphere’s award-winning Storage Horizon software dramatically reduces spending on storage infrastructure.  Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., the company is venture-backed by top-tier investors such as Intel Capital, ComVentures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Benchmark Capital.  More information can be found at www.monosphere.com.

For more information:
Frank Kettenstock
650-595-3102
frank@monosphere.com