ASG Enters Storage Resource Management - SRM - Solutions Market Through Distribution Partnership With TeraCloud.

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NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004

SRM Solutions Bolster ASG's Operations and Performance Management

Product Families

ASG, an enterprise software and professional services provider to Global 5000 companies, announced today a distribution partnership with TeraCloud, a leading provider of storage resource management (SRM) solutions for mainframe and distributed storage environments. This non-exclusive agreement enables ASG to provide more than 7,000 clients worldwide with TeraCloud's storage management solutions and to further increase the breadth of offerings in its Operations and Performance Management product families.

Under terms of the agreement, ASG will market and distribute worldwide a suite of TeraCloud's SRM solutions focusing on management of OS/390(R) storage resources as a strategic corporate asset. Available immediately, the product suite includes ASG-SpaceAutomator(TM) for policy-based automation of OS/390 storage management, which monitors storage requirements and provides immediate alerts. ASG-SpaceFinder(TM) automates, monitors, analyzes, reports and predicts OS/390 SRM data to ensure critical storage systems availability. ASG-TapeFinder(TM) optimizes OS/390 tape utilization from a central location by monitoring, analyzing and reporting tape storage activity to maximize systems performance. Finally, ASG-Total Recall(TM) monitors and analyzes real-time and historical HSM activity, using enhanced filtering, problem-identification and automated resolution tools to reduce the time required for corrective actions.

Businesses that implement this suite of user-focused, enterprise-wide storage management solutions will be able to:

-- Centrally manage complex storage infrastructures across

multiple mainframe datacenters

-- Manage storage resources efficiently across the entire network

regardless of underlying hardware or software

-- Discover, monitor, report, manage, automate and predict

resource and file-level data throughout the information

lifecycle

-- Reduce costs, increase responsiveness to service levels and

minimize risk

"In strengthening its support of OS/390 with an enhanced storage management solution suite for mainframe environments, ASG is proud to partner with TeraCloud and to provide its clients worldwide with hardware-independent storage and data solutions that enable them to leverage IT resources as valuable assets within the enterprise," said Arthur L. Allen, president and CEO of ASG. "This solution suite ensures increased service levels, improved productivity and lower risks and costs for resource management, all of which help to generate significant returns on IT software investments."

Gary S. Tidd, TeraCloud president and CEO, said, "TeraCloud's proven storage management products are a perfect complement to enhance ASG's comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end IT solutions. For more than a decade TeraCloud has provided user-friendly tools that significantly reduce the risk and cost of storage and data management. Now, through our worldwide reseller partnership with ASG, we have the ability to better serve the market with leading storage management solutions. Both companies and our joint customers stand to benefit greatly from this agreement."

Gartner's Vice President & Research Area Leader for Network and Systems Management Ray Paquet said, "End-to-end enterprise management requirements include managing things from the client to the storage. Attempting to address enterprise management without understanding the data on storage is impossible. End-to-end enterprise management demands data and storage management for mainframes as well as other platforms."

About ASG

ASG's business is to partner with clients to improve productivity and significantly enhance performance through the intelligent use of technology. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held global enterprise software and professional services firm that provides a full range of software solutions in the Security Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Information Management, Performance Management, and Infrastructure Management arenas -- including business re-engineering, systems integration and systems development. ASG has approximately 900 employees, $169 million in annual revenues, 7,000 customer sites, and 18,000 software licenses worldwide. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA, with more than 45 offices serving the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. Inc. magazine recognized ASG as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States, with a three-year growth rate of 394 percent. For more information, visit ASG at www.asg.com.

About TeraCloud

TeraCloud is the first to provide a unified SRM solution for mainframe and distributed storage environments. Its enterprise-wide software enables Fortune 1000 companies to centrally manage mission-critical data for SAN and NAS environments down to file- or dataset-level detail. TeraCloud's solution is hardware-independent, integrating the management of UNIX (including IBM(R) AIX(R), Hewlett-Packard(R) HP-UX, and Solaris(TM)); Red Hat(R) Linux(R); Windows(R); NetApp(R) ONTAP; MVS, S/390(R), and z/OS(R); and Novell NetWare(R) from a single console. Founded in 1991, TeraCloud Corporation is a privately held company based in Bellevue, Washington. For more information, visit www.teracloud.com.

To schedule an interview with an ASG professional, contact Eric Sommerton at 239/435-2015 or e-mail [e-mail].