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2010



Storage Industry Veteran Roger Cummings Joins Storwize as Vice President, Worldwide Sales
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 8, 2010 – Storwize, the leader in online storage optimization solutions through real-time data compression, today announced that Roger Cummings has joined the company as its vice president of worldwide sales. Cummings, who has spent more than twenty years building sales teams and helping customers achieve success, will lead Storwize’s direct and indirect sales efforts. This includes growing the company’s roster of strategic partnerships and business relationships with customers.

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Storwize Real-time Data Compression Solution Reduces Storage Utilization by 50 to 90 Percent without Performance Degradation
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 1, 2010 – Storwize, the leader in online storage optimization solutions through real-time data compression, today announced new capabilities for its family of real-time data compression appliances. Storwize delivers between 50 and 90 percent reductions in storage utilization for network attached storage (NAS) without performance degradation. Recent enhancements to the Storwize technology will enable NAS users to reclaim existing storage capacity, achieve faster throughput, support high availability (HA) configurations and improve forecasted storage resource requirements.

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Storwize and IBM to Host Webcast on Real-time Data Compression
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., February 16, 2010 – Storwize, a leader in storage optimization solutions through real-time data compression, today announced an upcoming webcast, NAS Costs with Real-time Data Compression, to be hosted by Storwize and IBM on February 24, 2010 at 12:00PM (noon) ET. Storwize and IBM will discuss the compelling benefits of using real-time data compression to save disk space and reduce storage costs for NAS environments.

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Storwize Real-time Data Compression Technology Wins 2009 Wikibon CTO Award
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Feb. 10, 2010 – Storwize, the leader in online storage optimization solutions through real-time data compression, today announced that Wikibon, a worldwide IT professional community, has recognized Storwize with its 2009 CTO Award. Storwize appliances transparently compress primary storage by 50-90 percent without performance degradation.

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Steve Kenniston, Storage Insider Joins Storwize
LOS GATOS, Calif., January 5, 2010 – Storwize, a leader in storage optimization solutions, announced today the addition of Steve Kenniston, an industry expert in storage technology, to Storwize, as its Vice President of Technology Strategy. Steve has an impressive background with over fifteen years of storage technology experience. Steve most recently served as the key technology consultant to the CTO of EMC’s Storage Software Group where he helped to define EMC’s vision for data protection. Steve arrived at EMC through the acquisition of Avamar where he served as the Vice President of Business Development.

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2009



IBM Touts New Service and Business Partner Solutions to Monitor, Analyze and Manage Energy Use and Environmental Impact of Operations
HAUPPAUGE, NY, November 18, 2009 – IBM detailed a new consulting service and several Business Partner solutions aimed at helping businesses and governments worldwide to monitor, analyze and manage energy use and environmental impact of their operations. Rich Lechner, energy and environment vice president for IBM, outlined the new offerings at the Advanced Energy 2009 Conference. The event was attended by more than 1,000 researchers, government officials and legislators, policy makers and environmentalists, along with leaders from the business, education and not-for-profit sectors

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Storwize CFO Mary Henry to address more than 500 CFOs and Financial Executives at 2009 MIT Sloan CFO Summit
LOS GATOS, Calif., November 16, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of capacity optimization without compromise, today announced that CFO Mary Henry wil join more than 500 CFOs and distinguished financial executives from around the world
and leading MIT Sloan faculty as a featured panelist at the 2009 MIT Sloan CFO Summit. The Summit will take place Thursday, November 19, 7:30 am – 6:00 pm at the Boston Marriott Newton in Newton, Mass.

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Storwize CEO to Present on Capacity Optimization in Virtualized Environments at SNW Fall 2009
LOS GATOS, CA – October 8, 2009 -- Storwize, provider of capacity optimization without compromise, today announced that CEO Ed Walsh will be presenting at SNW Fall 2009.

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Storwize wins both “Top 20” at VMworld and “Top 10” Companies to Watch Awards
LOS GATOS, CA – October 6, 2009 -- Storwize, provider of capacity optimization without compromise, today announced that it has been recognized by CRN with prestigious awards, twice in one month. Storwize solutions are deployed at hundreds of customer locations worldwide, enabling organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically reducing their cost of network attached storage (NAS) and the associated infrastructure footprint, power, cooling and administrative costs.

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SNW Names Storwize Customer Finalist for its Fall 2009 “Best Practices in Storage” Awards Program
LOS GATOS, CA – October 1, 2009 -- Storwize, the leading provider of capacity optimization solutions, today announced that Shopzilla, a Storwize user has been selected by SNW (Storage Networking World) as a finalist for its Fall 2009 “Best
Practices in Storage” Awards Program. Storwize’s unique real-time compression solutions enable organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically reducing their cost of storage and associated infrastructure footprint, power,
cooling and administrative costs.

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Deduplication Pioneer Takes the Reins at Storwize.
Ed Walsh, who launched data de-duplication at Avamar signs on to manage company's rapid growth;
Gal Naor remains as Storwize President.

LOS GATOS, Calif., September 15, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of online capacity optimization solutions, today announced that former EMC and Avamar executive, Ed Walsh, has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. Walsh takes the reins at the fast- growing company from Gal Naor who was appointed President of the company and will be focusing on the company's strategic direction. Walsh will be responsible for heading a worldwide executive team responsible for all facets of the company’s global operations including corporate and product strategy, engineering, finance, sales and support.



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Storwize Continues Alliances Momentum with Hitachi Data Systems Partnership
LOS GATOS, Calif., September 9, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the market leader in online data reduction, today announced that it has joined the Hitachi Data Systems Technology Alliance Program to offer real-time compression to Hitachi Data Systems’ storage customers. Storwize solutions are deployed at hundreds of customer locations worldwide, enabling organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically reducing their cost of file-based storage and associated infrastructure footprint, power, cooling and administrative costs.
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Storwize and Isilon to demo joint solution, reducing capacity and storage load by 70% at vmworld
SAN FRANCISCO, September 1, 2009 – Storwize, the leading provider of online capacity optimization solutions, and Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN), the proven leader in scale-out NAS, will be demonstrating Isilon IQ with the Storwize STN-6000 data reduction appliance, providing a complete primary storage optimization solution for VMware infrastructures at VMworld 2009, September 1 to September 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, at Booth #1932.
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Storwize Significantly Extends VMware Consolidation Benefits to Storage
LOS GATOS, Calif., August 25, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of online data reduction solutions, today announced they will be showcasing their award-winning STN-6000 solution in Booth #1932 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco August 31-
September 3.
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Online Data Compression Positively Impacting Storage Infrastructure Design According to Leading Industry Analyst Firm
LOS GATOS, Calif., August 18th, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the market leader in online data reduction solutions, was included as
a sample vendor in the “Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2009”1 by Gartner, Inc. analysts.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Chooses Storwize to Reduce Storage Costs
LOS GATOS, Calif., August 10, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co, Ltd has chosen the company’s capacity optimization solution to significantly reduce storage and operational costs associated with their CAD and image application data. Storwize solutions are deployed at hundreds of customer locations worldwide enabling organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically reducing their cost of storage and associated infrastructure footprint, power, cooling, and administrative costs.
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Storwize Rolls Out New Partner Program to Support Rapid Adoption of Online Data Reduction Solutions
LOS GATOS, Calif., July 22, 2009 – Storwize, Inc., the leading provider of online data reduction solutions today unveiled its new Storwize Partnerwize Program. The new and comprehensive program is designed to support the growth of Storwize channel partners’ bottom lines by delivering the right mix of incentives, infrastructure, and enablement tools to be successful in the rapidly emerging market for online data reduction.
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Isilon and Storwize Partner to Deliver Real-Time Capacity Optimization for Primary File-Based Data Storage
SEATTLE— June 23, 2009 — Isilon® Systems (NASDAQ: ISLN), the proven leader in scale-out NAS, and Storwize, the leading provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced they have partnered to deliver an integrated primary storage solution based upon Isilon’s scale-out NAS products and the Storwize STN-6000 appliance.
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Storwize Named a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor
LOS GATOS, Calif., June 22, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor.
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Leading Animation Studio Reduces Primary Data Footprint 70% and Enhances Productivity with Storwize Capacity Optimization
LOS GATOS, Calif., June 16, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced that Snowball VFX has chosen the company’s capacity optimization solution to significantly reduce storage costs associated with its animation application data.
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Storwize Names Ex-Data Domain Channel Sales Chief as Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales
LOS GATOS, Calif., June 2, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the market leader in primary storage optimization and data reduction, today announced the appointment of William Cordero as Vice President, Worldwide Channel Sales, reporting to Storwize Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Tom Gallivan.
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Language Weaver Chooses Storwize Primary Storage Capacity Optimization to Control Data Footprint Growth
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 27, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced that Language Weaver has chosen the company’s capacity optimization solution to significantly reduce its storage and associated power, cooling and floor space costs. Storwize solutions are deployed at hundreds of customer locations worldwide enabling organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically reducing their primary storage footprint creating financial, operational, and environmental savings throughout the data lifecycle.
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Storwize Enhances Online Data Reduction Performance with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series
LOS GATOS, Calif., May 6 2009 – Storwize Inc., the only provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced they have optimized their STN-OS operating system software to fully leverage the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series powerful hardware capabilities.
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Storwize Boosts Capacity Optimization Performance 35% with new STN-6000i Series Appliance
LOS GATOS, Calif., April 6, 2009 – Storwize, the market leader in primary storage optimization, today announced its new STN-6000i Series appliance. The STN-6000i is the first capacity optimization solution to universally reduce data on primary and secondary (backup) storage while also enhancing storage performance efficiency, enabling IT organizations to achieve operational and cost efficiencies in IT infrastructure and bandwidth, as well as associated power, cooling and floor space costs.
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Storwize Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ for 2009 by Leading Industry Analyst Firm
LOS GATOS, Calif., March 10, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of capacity optimization solutions, was named among the “Cool Vendors in Storage Management, 2009” by Gartner Inc. analysts.
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Landmark Introduces its Petrostor™ Cost-Competitive, Disk-Based Replacement Storage Solution for Tape in Oil and Gas Environments
HOUSTON, TX, February 17, 2009– Landmark, a brand of Halliburton’s (NYSE:HAL) Drilling and Evaluation Division, announced today the immediate availability of its PetroStor™ scalable disk storage platform that provides customers with petabytes of online capacity.
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Storwize Real-Time Compression Improves Deduplication Over 200%
LOS GATOS, Calif, February 3, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the leading provider of storage optimization solutions today released several reports illustrating the cost and operational benefits of implementing real-time compression and deduplication as part of an overall data reduction strategy.
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Storwize STN-6000p Data Reduction Solution Selected As a Finalist for ‘Product of the Year’
LOS GATOS, Calif., January 29, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the market leader in primary storage optimization, was selected as a finalist for the annual TechTarget Storage Products of the Year award, vying for the title against industry heavyweights such as EMC, NetApp, Symantec and VMware.
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Storwize Names Storage Industry Veteran Daniel Marshall as New Vice President of Worldwide Sales
LOS GATOS, Calif., January 26, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the market leader in primary storage optimization, today announced that the company has appointed Daniel
J. Marshall as Vice President, Worldwide Sales
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Storwize Continues Market Leadership in Data Reduction and Capacity Optimization
LOS GATOS, Calif., January 6, 2009 – Storwize Inc., the market leader in primary storage optimization, capped a record 2008 surpassing 100 customers, adding new strategic partnerships and introducing new product capabilities as the company’s capacity optimization solutions continue to be adopted by organizations worldwide looking to reduce their cost of storage and associated infrastructure footprint, power, cooling and administrative costs.
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