BOSTON, MA - March 28, 2007 - Onaro, Inc., the leader in storage service management (SSM), today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in the 'Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software, 2007 Magic Quadrant' report. Gartner's Magic Quadrant positions vendors in a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute that vision.

According to the Gartner report, "Visionaries are forward-thinking, but their execution has not propelled them into leadership positions. These vendors are differentiated by product innovation, but they have not achieved a completeness of solution or the sales and marketing expertise required to give them the high visibility of leaders."

During the period covered in the report, Onaro reached key milestones which included achieving 4x revenue growth, the doubling of its customer count, inking a world-wide sales distribution agreement with Hitachi Data Systems, shipping three new products, and establishing Service Connect partnerships with Cisco and Oracle. In addition to evaluation in Gartner's Magic Quadrant, the company also received numerous other industry citations including a Byte & Switch Top 10 Private Company, a NetworkWorld One of Six Storage Startup Companies to Watch, an eWEEK Excellence Award, an InfoStor MVP Finalist award, and a Network Storage Conference Finalist award.

"Traditional storage resource management (SRM) applications continue to miss the mark for customers interested in gaining control of their networked storage assets," said Doug McNary, president and CEO, Onaro, Inc. "Onaro represents a new class of more focused management applications that empower storage teams to dramatically improve configuration discovery, service monitoring, capacity planning, change management, and compliance. We consider our positioning in the visionaries quadrant by Gartner confirmation of Onaro's mission to fundamentally change the way storage infrastructure is managed."

Onaro was also named one of Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Storage Management, 2007" in March 2, 2007 report released by Gartner, Inc. Written by Dave Russell and Carolyn DiCenzo, research vice presidents, the report, "Cool Vendors in Storage Management, 2007," selected companies which offer innovative, impactful, and intriguing solutions in the storage management marketplace.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted March 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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, JetBlue Airways, Priority Healthcare, State Street Global Advisors, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. For more information, please visit www.onaro.com.

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