CommVault Systems and AppIQ Showcase Unified Data and Resource Management at Storage Networking World.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Storage Networking World Spring 2003

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2003

Companies Partner to Demonstrate the First Standards-Based Data and

SAN Management Solution That Offers Customers a Faster, Easier and

Cheaper Way to Manage Their Complex Storage Infrastructures

CommVault(R) Systems and AppIQ(TM), Gold Sponsors of the Storage Networking World(R) Conference and Expo, will showcase the first combined data management and SMI-S based SAN infrastructure management solution that brings together the administration of data protection, access and availability with the visualization of storage resource paths from the spindle to the application. This effort marks the first step in the companies' partnership to provide customers with an integrated, standards-based solution that delivers a faster, easier and cheaper way to manage their data within complex storage networks.

The combination of the CommVault QiNetix platform and AppIQ Solution Suite reduces complexity by unifying the management of the physical and logical data and storage resources. Specifically, the demo will show how a single, unified platform covering automated, policy-based application data and storage management combined with automatic discovery and rendering of the application, physical and logical resource paths for design, deployment and provisioning can improve data and storage administration, availability and utilization. The demonstrated SMI-S solution highlights AppIQ's discovery and visualization of application-specific, physical and logical storage resources and CommVault's QiNetix logical view of application data to reduce complexity by managing the data and the infrastructure as a single system, integrating business applications, and implementing open industry standards.

"The collaboration between these leaders in data management and storage infrastructure management is a significant milestone for the storage industry," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, The Enterprise Storage Group. "By marrying the data path with the resource path, customers gain a broader perspective of their IT infrastructure and with that the ability to take the steps needed to maximize data availability and application performance."

"Customers want to simplify management to reduce administration cost while ensuring access to critical data. The combination of our QiNetix data and storage management platform with AppIQ's discovery and rendering of storage network elements gives them a complete picture within a single system," said Larry Cormier, vice president, marketing and business development. "It's the first time these two capabilities have been combined in a cohesive platform so IT organizations can use a standards-based approach to see, diagnose and manage very complex storage networks and the data contained within them."

"Our partnership with CommVault will yield an integrated solution that demonstrates to the market the significant role standards play in the ability to deliver real customer value," said Doug Cahill, vice president of business development and strategy, AppIQ. "By leveraging our efforts to demonstrate interoperability in the CIM-SAN-2 Developers Demonstration at SNW, we are now in a position to deliver a standards-based data and storage infrastructure management product to the market in the near future."

About CommVault Systems, Inc.

CommVault Systems, Inc., provides unified enterprise data management solutions to ensure high performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. The company's singular focus is creating and implementing speedy, simple and seamless solutions to meet customers' data management requirements. The company's software products seamlessly ensure the reliable, high performance protection, migration, availability, access and management of files, business-critical applications and today's most popular databases. Information on CommVault is available on the World Wide Web at www.commvault.com or by calling [phone]. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States

About AppIQ

AppIQ(TM), Inc. is leading a revolution in open management. AppIQ Solution Suite is the first standards-built solution to simplify the management of complex storage environments for IT professionals in enterprises of all sizes. Reduced complexity is achieved by managing the infrastructure as a system, integrating business applications, and implementing open industry standards. The result is an easy-to-deploy and simple-to-use solution that provides more efficient use of existing assets, increased application availability, and quicker deployment of storage infrastructure and business applications. Though its CIMIQ program, AppIQ has delivered enabling technology based on industry standards to a number of partners to further the rapid adoption of standards in the storage industry including Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), CommVault Systems, Hitachi Data Systems, LSI Logic Storage Systems (NYSE: LSI), McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA/MCDT), Network Appliance (Nasdaq: NTAP) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW). AppIQ is also an active participant in leading industry standards groups including the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Investors in AppIQ include Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. Contact AppIQ at [e-mail], [phone] or visit www.appiq.com for more information.

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(C) 2003 AppIQ, Inc. AppIQ is a trademark of AppIQ, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.