The Yottabyte NetStorage ™ Company Copyright © 2002 Steve Mattioli President and CEO

Disruptive Technology A disruptive technology is an emerging technology that will displace established, dominant companies in their industry segments.... Clayton M. Christensen

Speed (Mbps) Network SpeedStorage Speed The NetStorage Gap

Market Opportunity Universal Problems Growing global user base Information-intensive applications Critical service level requirements Source: Cahner’s In-Stat* IDC ** Massive Market Total worldwide storage market, $59 Billion in 2003* Worldwide market disk storage systems, $31 B in 2003** ASP/SSP markets, $13.4 Billion in 2004** Current solutions chase IT problems – NOT Business Solutions!

2. Availability Top Customer Issues 1. Management 3. Security 6. Integration 4. Capital Expenditure 5. Billing

Application Infrastructure: Current Enterprise Applications Distributed Network Elements Enterprise Storage Distributed Application Hosts

SANs Compound Storage Bottleneck

Storage + Massively Parallel Computing + Intelligent Caching + Optical Networking = NetStorage Realized

Truly Scalable Technology Scalable Cache Scalable I/Os InfiniBand ™ Backplane Scalable Connectivity

NetStorager Software Stack

Access Agnostic Pooled Capacity Scalable Cache Connectivity I/O Bandwidth YottaYotta’s Scalable Solution Host Fabric Storage Fabric Logical Virtualization

Local to Global Storage Fabric New York AtlantaLos Angeles London

5-7 times more than acquisition cost Training People Upgrade Cost of Failure Day to Day Operations Cost of Data Management On-going Costs Storage Costs Iceberg Acquisition Cost One-time Cost

Application Infrastructure: YottaYotta Distributed Network Elements Distributed NetStorager Nodes Distributed Applications Distributed Application Hosts

Business Integration Requirements Differentiated services for subscribers Real-time event rating for SLA management and monitoring Presents existing OSS with rich event data Real-time utilization visibility unlocks maximum Return On Investment

Service Delivery Architecture Business Process Trouble Tickets SLA Mgmt ERP CRM NSM HR Billing Business Process Trouble Tickets SLA Mgmt ERP CRM NSM HR Billing Net Admin Router Switch Servers QoS CoS Services Data Admin Storage Fabric Servers Network Application SRM Tools Host OS Services Platform Data Services Platform Network

Flexible Rules-based Service Pricing Mediated Events XML, ASCII Event Collection & Mapping Engine Event Designer Customer Engine Partner Management Engine Partner Management Partner Management Customer Care Tariff Engine Tariff Management Tariff Management

Economic Drivers Critical for Service Creation Decisions $ per Customer Usage per Customer If prices are not accurately aligned with the key cost drivers... Price Cost …heavy users will be targeted by competition… …leaving the unprofitable users in your base

Delivering on Promise YottaYotta Benefits Real-time disaster recovery: node, system, site AvailabilityRequirements Hardened subscriber protection Security Single point provisioning/unified management Management Pay-as-you-grow CapEx Integration Integration of Existing Storage maximizes ROI Enables differentiated services for subscribers Billing

YottaYotta NetStorage Team Stephen R. MattioliPresident & CEO, Co-founder – President & CEO, Seek [Storage] Systems – Senior VP Marketing & Sales, Applied Voice Tech – TriData Networking & NCR Data Communications Wayne T. KarpoffV.P. & CTO, Co-founder – President of Myrias Computer Technologies Ned MenningerV.P. Finance – CFO Sequoia Capital, Freeinternet.com – Microsoft Robin HarrisV.P. Marketing – Sun, Quantum, DEC Dale FreeloveDirector, Business Development – HP, Agilent Technology David Southwell, Ph.D. Director, Hardware Development – British Telecom Brian H. LakeDirector, Software Development – Myrias Computer Technologies

Team Pedigree

Financing Pedigree

YottaYotta Opportunity Strengths Disruptive technology Massive, high-growth market Proven world-class team Top-tier investment partners Challenges Aggressive product schedule Highly-competitive marketplace Establishing YottaYotta NetStorage ™ standard

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