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RESTON, VA -- WQuinn, a leader in real-time storage resource management software solutions, has announced that Plano, Texas-based EDS (NYSE: EDS) has selected WQuinn's StorageCentral(R) SRM to proactively control data storage and maintain high availability of disk space on the enterprise-wide U.S. Navy Marine Corps Intranet ("NMCI") project. Representing the largest publicly-announced deployment of storage resource management ("SRM") software on Microsoft Windows-based systems to date, EDS will install StorageCentral SRM Enterprise Edition over the course of the five-year deployment on the more than 2,500 Dell ProSignia servers running Windows 2000 that comprise the NMCI. In October 2000, EDS was awarded the $6.9 billion, five-year contract to build, manage, and maintain the U.S. Navy Marine Corps Intranet to be accessed by more than 360,000 users at 300 bases throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Iceland. "Having the ability to proactively manage and control mission-critical Windows 2000 storage resources throughout global enterprises is one of the greatest IT challenges managers face today," said Najaf Husain, president and CEO of WQuinn. "EDS' selection of StorageCentral SRM as the standard for the immense NMCI project not only punctuates the significance of this challenge, but also demonstrates the unique ability of WQuinn's Federal solutions organization to address the challenge effectively even on the largest scale, and in real time." JR Fuller, Director of Subcontractor Management at EDS in Herndon, Virginia, said: "Among the critical objectives for NMCI are improved systems reliability, reduced costs, increased productivity and enhanced network security. The real-time control of data storage usage provided by StorageCentral SRM is what we need in fulfillment of these objectives. By implementing its real-time disk utilization controls, we can ensure high reliability by preventing excessive disk space consumption that jeopardizes performance and availability and slows productivity. By performing regular storage usage audits to identify problem areas, maximize resource efficiency, and optimize disk resources, StorageCentral SRM will help control costs. And by preventing unauthorized file types from writing to the network, StorageCentral SRM will help maintain security." "The important message here is that Storage Resource Management (SRM) is becoming a 'must have' storage management application in order for large scale Windows environments to achieve enterprise-class management of storage assets," said Steve Duplessie, Senior Analyst with Enterprise Storage Group, Milford, MA. "EDS' selection of StorageCentral SRM should translate to maximum project efficiency and overall cost of ownership advantages for this NMCI project." WQuinn's Federal Solutions organization has also provided StorageCentral SRM to more than 100 U.S. Federal Government agencies, including every major branch of the U.S. Department of Defense. Through WQuinn's "AASET(TM) SRM" approach, StorageCentral SRM provides the core storage resource management features central IT departments need for conserving and reducing the cost of managing shared storage created by employees. These features include: Auditing the network storage or SAN space usage to identify large volumes of files (typically 30% to 50% of utilized disk space) to be deleted or archived or to determine how fast the space is being used, where, by whom, and why; Allocating a certain amount of storage space through disk and user quotas, setting multiple intermittent thresholds on that space; monitoring and enforcing thresholds in real time and reporting on space as the threshold is reached; Screening out unwanted file types and blocking those file types from being saved on the server network or SAN Educating end-users about storage usage rates and about performing self-cleanup of cluttered directories through informative alerts at critical thresholds and intuitive, web-based file cleanup prompts Trending legitimate storage growth over time to identify storage usage patterns and make intelligent capacity planning decisions through graphical trending reports. The patented TruStor(TM) real-time quota filter driver in StorageCentral SRM monitors, enforces, and alerts on disk consumption as events occur, such as files being written to or being removed from servers. This technology makes extremely efficient use of server performance, even in a data center or SAN environment. Due to its real-time monitoring and enforcement capabilities, systems administrators can have completely proactive control of disk space utilization.