Olocity Launches StorageIM Professional Edition, Only Open Platform that Streamlines Systems Management

Standards and Open Source Combo Helps Reduce Costs, Decrease Time-to-Market and
Establishes an Infrastructure for Next-Generation Solutions
PHOENIX--(Business Wire)--
Olocity Corporation announced today at Storage Networking World Fall 2009, the
release of StorageIM Professional Edition, the first and only open platform for
managing heterogeneous systems in the IT infrastructure.

Utilizing the open core business model and emerging industry standards such as
the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), developed through the
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Olocity created StorageIM to
serve as the nucleus of storage management technology for IT consumers and
storage vendors.

"Enterprise storage is slow to evolve," said Jack Burness, president of Burness
and Associates."That`s why agile companies like Olocity are best equipped to
provide storage management solutions that quickly adapt to emerging technologies
like solid state and cloud."

Building upon the StorageIM Community Edition - available as a free download
with full discovery, monitoring and basic management capabilities - StorageIM
Professional Edition takes the product line to the next level by including:

* Datacenter performance metrics
* Expanded systems management capabilities
* Customized training and support

Kurt Krems, president and CEO of Olocity, said, "Using storage standards and
open source together creates a powerful tool for datacenter managers. StorageIM
has been vetted by some of the brightest minds in the industry through continual
development, broad testing and code reviews, allowing us to minimize the cost of
development. We also eliminate most of the sales activity associated with
enterprise software by offering the Community Edition as a free download, with
an optional upgrade to the Professional Edition."

However, Krems stressed that cost should not be the only variable to consider
when evaluating open source alternatives. "As the software industry evolves and
more applications move to the cloud, Gartner and other sources predict that most
next-generation, cloud-based software infrastructure providers and
software-as-a-service (SAAS) solutions will be based on open source. Now is
clearly the time to get onboard," he said.

Using OlocityxIM architecture as its core, StorageIM provides scalable solutions
that help avoid vendor lock-in, decrease the time-to-market, leverage robust
open source software, lower the total cost of ownership and gain a competitive
advantage.

As an IT productivity tool, StorageIM manages arrays, virtualizers, switches,
HBAs and tape libraries across product lines with a high degree of
interoperability.

StorageIM supports many commercially available products, including: arrays from
3PAR, EMC, LSI Logic, Fujitsu, HDS, IBM, HP, Pillar and Data Direct Networks;
switches from Brocade, Cisco, and QLogic; HBAs from Emulex and QLogic; and tape
libraries from HP, IBM, and Quantum. It also supports LINUX hosts via SBLIM
infrastructures and runs on both Linux and Windows operating systems.

ABOUT OLOCITY CORPORATION

Utilizing an open core business model and emerging industry standards, Olocity
Corporation delivered the first and only open platform for managing
heterogeneous systems in the IT infrastructure. StorageIM Community Edition is
available as a free download and offers full discovery, monitoring and basic
management capabilities. StorageIM Professional Edition is an optional upgrade
with expanded performance metrics, systems management capabilities, and
customized training and support. Olocity also provides standards-based
consulting services. To learn more, visit www.Olocity.com.

Olocity Corporation
Karen W. Phillips, 407-474-6488
Karen.Phillips@Olocity.com

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