MONOSPHERE INTRODUCES STORAGE HORIZON 3.0

Major New Version of Storage Capacity Management Software Can Save
Global 3000 Companies 40 Percent or More on IT-Storage Capital Expenditures

Redwood City, Calif. – Jan. 29, 2007 – MonoSphere Inc., creators of award-winning storage capacity management software, today introduced Storage Horizon® 3.0. This software 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 capital expenditures on IT storage. New analytical tools automate the previously manual process of matching storage demand with physical storage inventory, enabling enterprises to more fully leverage existing hardware assets.

“Mapping storage usage from application hosts down to the storage array is critical functionality that is long overdue,” said Arun Taneja, consulting analyst and founder of the Taneja Group. “Now enterprises can make better purchasing decisions based on how much of their storage is used versus how much has been allocated for use, which is how most organization manage storage capacity today.”

Storage Demand Drives Need for Capacity-Management Solutions
Fortune 1000 companies’ demand for storage capacity has increased from 44 terabytes to 698 terabytes on average within the past four years, according to the analyst firm TheInfoPro’s Wave 8 Report. In MonoSphere’s December 2006 survey of 140 storage professionals, 83 percent responded that despite declining unit costs, storage spending is increasing and at a rate faster than IT budget growth. In fact 62 percent responded that the increase in capital expenditures for storage causes delays in other important IT initiatives. This issue underscores the need for large enterprises to develop effective storage capacity plans and maximize utilization of existing storage assets. For mid- to large-sized enterprises, savings within the first year of implementing MonoSphere’s storage capacity management software can exceed millions of dollars.

“IT organizations are trying to fully leverage their existing computing investments.  One example of this is creating multiple virtual machines on your servers to increase CPU utilization.  Another example is deploying a storage capacity management solution like Storage Horizon to increase the utilization of your expensive and fast growing storage environments,” said Bob Laliberte, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.  “Sooner or later, all efficient IT organizations are going to have to evaluate and deploy these types of solutions.”

Storage Horizon 3.0 Adds Innovative Features
MonoSphere’s Storage Horizon enables storage administrators to make informed storage infrastructure decisions about how and when to consolidate storage, increase utilization, add new subsystems, understand the impact of data protection schemes, reclaim under-utilized storage and prevent out-of-storage emergencies. Storage Horizon 3.0 is a comprehensive management application for capacity forecasting, capacity budgeting, storage analytics, supply-to-demand mapping and daily usage monitoring. New features include:
Data collection and reporting from storage arrays
Automated supply-to-demand mapping of storage array logical devices to host volumes
Automated association of usage and usage forecasts to storage arrays
Automated, storage-array-based capacity plan generation
20 template-based analytical reports, in addition to more than 500 custom reports
Alerts for potential “trouble spots” and over-provisioned areas

“Today we see a trend in the industry where end users are moving away from single storage management frameworks that try to solve every problem to focused solutions that solve specific pain points,” said Laura DuBois, research director of Storage Software at IDC. “These focused solutions tend to provide deeper capability and features around a specific storage management challenge and often provide a better return on investment. Storage Horizon is a great example of a focused solution for storage capacity management.”

“Storage Horizon 3.0 delivers major enhancements offering storage administrators unprecedented visibility into the current and forecasted use of their storage subsystems and empowering companies to reduce their storage expenditures by 40 percent or more, ease the management burden of explosive storage growth, and improve service levels to end users,” said Frank Kettenstock, MonoSphere’s vice president of marketing.

As with previous versions, Storage Horizon 3.0 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 management 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 Intel Capital, ComVentures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. More information can be found at www.monosphere.com.

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