Crosswalk, Inc. Introduces Powerful Tool for NAS Management; With New NAS Bundle, Crosswalk Provides the Industry's Deepest View into NAS Environments, Delivering True Business Value.

WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- Crosswalk, Inc., a company creating a suite of products that begin to solve the complexity of the current information infrastructure, today announced the Crosswalk Storage Manager NAS Bundle. Available as a pre-packaged configuration of the Crosswalk Storage Manager (CSM) software suite, the bundle delivers customized monitoring and reporting of multiple distributed NAS systems. Regardless of device manufacturer, the CSM NAS Bundle provides visibility into both the storage environment and the complete IT infrastructure from a single console. The new bundle builds on Crosswalk's flagship solution, the CSM software suite, which provides the industry's deepest view across the entire network, by enabling customers to more easily and efficiently manage growing NAS infrastructures.

"I hear time and again that customers love their first NAS device, but as their environment grows and requires more devices, the affair turns ugly," stated Rob Kelley, founder and CTO of Crosswalk. "Crosswalk was built on the foundation that today's IT infrastructure does not have to be as unmanageable and complex as it currently stands. With products such as the new NAS Bundle, Crosswalk continues to provide tools that uncover the underlying complexity, so our customers can address problems at the root and deliver increased value to the businesses they serve."

The Crosswalk CSM NAS Bundle allows organizations to maximize their NAS investment via timesavings, operational expense reductions and improved investment utilization. Key benefits of the bundle include:

--Optimized NAS resource utilization

--Real-time storage and data classification, trending and forecasting

--Answers to how storage and data resources are being used and who is using them

--Reporting to help track and share utilization information

--Consolidated enterprise monitoring of multiple systems

--The ability to diagnose systems with detailed performance analysis

In addition, the information derived from the bundle allows IT managers to leverage the infrastructure as a service, providing the appropriate information to create real-time chargeback reports as well as proactively diagnose bottlenecks before they disrupt service.

"NAS management is a largely untapped market, as users currently leverage products delivered with the actual device, which oftentimes adds additional complexity in heterogeneous environments," stated Gary Hester, Regional Manager, Technologent, a Crosswalk value-added reseller. "Solutions that bring together data from across the entire network, such as the CSM software suite with the NAS management bundle, provide the necessary information for IT departments to report to business units, proactively manage for increased utilization and uptime and ultimately deliver increased business value."

About the CSM NAS Bundle

The CSM NAS Bundle supports both local and remote monitoring and reporting of configurations and performance. In addition, it provides enhanced NAS support, including centralized device consoles with file analysis drill-downs. Features of the new bundle include:

--Enhanced File Analysis on CIFS & NFS 

--Monitoring and Trending of Volumes, qTrees and vFilers

--SnapVault, SnapMirror Support

--Simplified Monitoring and Reporting across Multiple Devices

--Trending and Forecasting of Volumes

--Reports on File Types, Age and Size

--Share-level File Analysis

With the new CSM NAS Bundle, customers can now receive views into their entire infrastructure to see host information, along with the associated storage resources. The new bundle is available immediately and starts at less that $9,000.

About Crosswalk Inc.

Crosswalk is creating a suite of products and a company that begins to solve the complexity of the current information infrastructure, providing dramatically improved information access across networks. Founded in 2004 by Chairman and CEO Jack McDonnell, Crosswalk has a team that includes veterans from McDATA, Cisco, EMC, Veritas, Sun Microsystems and other leading technology companies. For more information, visit www.crosswalkinc.com.