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SAN Applications in the Storage Utility Market Operational Support Systems are Key

SAN Applications in the Storage Utility Market Operational Support Systems are Key Mike Koclanes President and CEO. CreekPath Systems. Key VCs are Telesoft and Sequel Ventures Raised $21M in funding Dec 2000 Strong storage management team 15+ years experience per headcount

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SAN Applications in the Storage Utility Market Operational Support Systems are Key

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  1. SAN Applications in the Storage Utility Market Operational Support Systems are Key Mike Koclanes President and CEO 5/22/01 CreekPath Confidential

  2. CreekPath Systems • Key VCs are Telesoft and Sequel Ventures • Raised $21M in funding Dec 2000 • Strong storage management team • 15+ years experience per headcount • 34 employees, primarily software engineers • SSP 2000 • Professional Services • First SSP to use virtualized shared SANs 5/22/01 CreekPath Confidential

  3. CreekPath Systems Mission The Industry Vision: The next wave of applications and appliances will request and receive processing power, storage and network services on demand from a pool of resources provisioned as a utility. CreekPath will enable: Automated Provisioning of Storage and other Network Services with a predictable, measurable, and sustainable Quality of Service by Global Service Providers 5/22/01 CreekPath Confidential

  4. Past Today Near Future Remote Customer IP DC (FC) DC (FC) DC (FC) Scale drives the need for automation PROCESS 1:25 1:25,000 1:250,000,000 Classes of Service SCALE 5/22/01 CreekPath Confidential

  5. CreekPath’s Vision Storage utility scale will need to grow to service millions of customers …. Storage services need to be self provisioning, self servicing, self maintaining …. Storage services must integrate with the GSP’s business systems …. When it sounds like an OSS, and looks like an OSS, and is works like an OSS ………. 5/22/01 CreekPath Confidential

  6. …..it is a Storage OSS • Requirements to Provide Storage as a Utility Service: • (1) Customer Care Systems • Interfacing to customer and applications (storage requestor) • Validating customer’s service requests • Customer billing & reporting • (2) Service Management Systems • Policy management and modeling for classes of storage services • Service planning and dispatch • SLA/QoS monitor and closed loop corrective action • (3) Storage Network Management Systems • Automated provisioning of requested services • Integrated provisioning of FC and IP services • Preventive maintenance, self-healing adaptive system 5/22/01 CreekPath Confidential

  7. CreekPath Storage Management Layers Layers 1-5 are based on an EMC proposed model. Layers 6 and 7 are proposed by CreekPath. 5/22/01 CreekPath Confidential

  8. The Summary • CreekPath is an experienced Software Development Company • We’re focused on the storage service space • Storage Utility services are here and growing • Today the scale is 100s, tomorrow it’s 100s of thousands • Operational Support Systems for Storage Services are needed • Carrier Class GSPs are wondering where they are • Automated Customer Care, Automated Provisioning, Automated Service execution, Integration with BSS in existence • The benefits that result • Improved margins through operational efficiencies • Scalability to grow where the market wants to go • Offer Class of Storage Services which drive profitability • Provide Carrier Class storage services 5/22/01 CreekPath Confidential

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