SEATTLE, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/24/07 -- TeraCloud (www.teracloud.com), which continues to define the storage analytics market serving global Fortune 2000 and mid-market customers, today announced the availability of the whitepaper "Prescription for Storage Pain: Prescription without a Diagnosis is Malpractice," by Jerome M. Wendt, an independent storage analyst and columnist.

"What do I have? How is it being used? Do I need more? What should I buy next? Who should I buy it from? These questions plague corporate storage managers as they evaluate their increasingly complex heterogeneous infrastructure and try to assess what their next moves will be," Wendt writes. "This inability to report on and analyze their storage infrastructure is further hampered by SRM tools that promise analysis but primarily provide management."

"The Prescription for Storage Pain reports on the universal storage optimization challenge IT managers face -- making critical purchase decisions with little or no clear view of the storage environment," said TeraCloud CEO Gary Tidd. "Storage Analytics is required to understand whether there is a need for more hardware storage investment or for optimizing existing assets; and make an informed decision that best serves storage and budgetary needs."

Prescription for Storage Pain: Prescription without a Diagnosis is Malpractice is available at: http://www.teracloud.com/docs/Whitepapers/Prescription%20for%20Storage%2...

"The emergence of storage analytics is the result of the inability of existing tools and methodologies to give storage administrators what they really need -- persistent point in time analysis of their environment...a storage analytics tool collects data from multiple data points to form the basis for understanding the relationships that exist between the different components within the storage infrastructure and the impact that may result from changing these, either the settings or devices," Wendt reports.

TeraCloud's Storage Analytics (TSA) technology provides storage utilization analytics to pin-point conditions and predictive events where storage utilization is sub-optimized, and then recommends automated actions. TeraCloud turns raw data into actionable information. With the TSA ability to extract actionable insights from data, IT executives can make informed technology purchasing decisions that support their business objectives. TSF Express is a free SRM tool providing enterprise-level storage management for Solaris, Linux, Windows and AIX.

TSF Lite is the only product to provide mid-market companies with a powerful, enterprise-level and cost-effective tool for predictable storage management. It offers the market's first and only hybrid subscription, utility-based pay-as-you-use pricing. The charge is $395 per month only in the months you use it for up to 20 terabytes of managed storage. TeraCloud produces a comprehensive and detailed usage report with specific storage recommendations based upon collected customer data.

TeraCloud Availability

TeraCloud's products are available online through the company's Web site at www.teracloud.com, and the company has established strategic technology, distribution and development partnerships. The company is building indirect sales through local and regional VARS interested in getting closer to their customers.

About TeraCloud Corporation

TeraCloud Corporation continues to define the storage analytics market serving global Fortune 2000 and mid-market customers. TeraCloud's groundbreaking Storage Analytics (TSA) technology provides storage utilization analytics to pin-point conditions and predictive events where storage utilization is sub-optimized. Regardless of platform, the TeraCloud Storage Framework (TSF) v2.1 provides enterprise customers with instant knowledge for predictable storage resource management(SRM) from a single view. TSF Lite is the only product to provide mid-market companies with a powerful, enterprise-level and cost-effective tool for predictable storage management. TeraCloud's SpaceFinder Suite v4.4.1 gives customers the knowledge for predictable storage management on the Z-series platform by providing automating storage administration that monitors, detects, analyzes and proactively resolves issues threatening storage availability. Founded in 1991, TeraCloud Corporation is a privately held company based in Bellevue, Wash. For more information, visit www.teracloud.com.

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