Enables Infrastructure Teams to Align Their Storage Infrastructure with Application Requirements at the Lowest possible Cost

BOSTON, MA - December 4, 2006 - Onaro, the leader in storage service management, today unveiled SANscreen Foundation version 3.5, the next major release of its flagship product in the SANscreen suite. The new release provides infrastructure teams with the unprecedented ability to align their storage infrastructure with an application's requirements at the lowest possible cost. Key new features include application to storage service view, improved service quality tracking, a capacity planning capability, and a ready-to-use IT storage portal.

"SANscreen Foundation's new ability to link applications to the infrastructure is essential for organizations to align storage resources with business requirements," said Bob Laliberte, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "With this release, Onaro continues to differentiate itself and provide more valuable, actionable information to the infrastructure team so they can deliver higher levels of service to the business."

"SANscreen gives me the ability to maintain critical service levels required by a demanding application team," said Bryan Magloire, storage network administrator for Southern Wine & Spirits Business Solutions Group, the country's largest wine and spirits distributor. "Foundation 3.5's advancements will make my job that much easier to improve the quality of the storage services I deliver."

Highlights of SANscreen Foundation version 3.5 include:

• Application to Storage Service View - SANscreen Foundation 3.5 enables storage managers to view the services delivered by the storage environment not just to a host, but rather to the underlying applications. This completes a key requirement for storage service management by enabling true application level management of storage resources.
• Improved Service Quality Tracking - Without SANscreen, most infrastructure teams use the measure of SAN uptime as their only quality measurement leaving no way to drive incremental improvements that contribute to availability. With SANscreen, more gradual measures of SAN quality are possible, enabling infrastructure teams to reduce outages dramatically. SANscreen Foundation 3.5 contains additional global and host service policy definitions to further fine-tune service violation tracking and reporting. This new capability will enable Onaro customers to improve storage service quality by an additional order of magnitude over SANscreen Foundation 3.0.
• New Capacity Planning Capability - SANscreen Foundation's change repository contains all device and service changes to the storage infrastructure including the allocation of new volumes and ports. SANscreen Foundation 3.5 uses this information to report on allocation trending for both arrays and ports in the storage infrastructure. Understanding cost allocations and trending is a key component of delivering the right level of service at the lowest possible cost.
• Preconfigured IT Storage Portal - Getting the storage service information into the hands of application owners, system administrators, and other IT managers is a key component of delivering IT as a service. Foundation 3.5 includes a ready-to-use IT Storage Portal that contains all the key storage service information for an application.

• Support for Cisco's SAN routing technology
• Improved agentless technology for rapid host identification
• Numerous usability and GUI improvements

Availability and Pricing

Onaro SANscreen Foundation version 3.5 will be generally available at the end of the year. Pricing for SANscreen Foundation starts at $185 per port. Contact Onaro at 617.338.0068 or www.onaro.com for more details.

About Onaro, Inc.
Onaro is the leader in storage service management (SSM) enabling enterprises to increase service quality, return on storage, and compliance by managing storage as a service. Unlike traditional SRM applications which are device centric, Onaro provides a clear service view into a SAN's access paths, redundancy, replication and performance. SANscreen is being used by the world's largest companies in banking, retail, entertainment, data communications and wireless telecom. A partial customer list includes AOL, CareGroup Healthcare System, Countrywide Financial Corporation, JetBlue Airways, Priority Healthcare, State Street Global Advisors, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. For more information, please visit www.onaro.com.

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