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16 March 2010 
 
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16 March 2010 
 
                                  Xploite plc 
                           ("Xploite" or "the Group") 
 
      Storage Fusion signs agreement with Unisys to help clients optimise 
          data-centre efficiency and eliminate expensive storage costs 
 
Xploite plc (AIM: XPT), the operator and aggregator of strategic and high-growth 
IT services businesses, announces that Storage Fusion, its Storage Resource 
Analysis (SRA) subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Unisys Corporation 
(NYSE: UIS) to supply a global Storage Resource Analysis (SRA) service.  This 
technology is designed to help companies optimise data-centre efficiency and 
eliminate expensive storage costs. 
 
Through this service, businesses can use a portal to access a free headline 
report on their system utilisation, capacity allocation and disk tiering. The 
report includes an environmental module that shows power consumed by storage 
hardware down to individual disk drives. 
 
This intelligence can help businesses reduce their power consumption by 50%, 
improve storage utilisation by 30% and potentially save millions of pounds in 
annual IT costs. The intelligence will also equip CIOs with the information they 
need to plan the storage architecture that is right for their organisations, cut 
operational and unnecessary capital expenses and maximise the performance of 
their storage systems. 
 
Before the SRA headline report became available, information technology research 
and advisory company Gartner, Inc. noted that it could "take weeks or even 
months to create a storage strategy that reflects organisational goals."  Valdis 
Filks, Research Director for Gartner, notes that storage management has become 
an increasingly complex and critical competency: "Organisations need to deal 
with soaring amounts of data on a tightening budget, while legal and corporate 
governance issues can complicate the processes and infrastructure. The data 
stored in the storage infrastructure is often the lifeblood of an organisation 
and, therefore, a significant and critical resource." 
 
Unique Service Based on Research into Users' Most Pressing Concerns 
The SRA solution enables organisations to revolutionise the way they evaluate 
and optimise their storage environments. Using an innovative Software as a 
Service (SaaS) delivery model, the self-service portal can deliver detailed 
analytics within hours by cutting through the complexity of heterogeneous 
storage environments. 
 
This unique Unisys service is the result of a Unisys survey, published in 2009, 
into customer storage challenges. Unisys interviewed 80 leading European 
business managers and CIOs, each responsible for more than 400 terabytes (TB) of 
data, from a wide cross-section of industries including the financial, public 
sector, utilities and transportation sectors. 
 
According to the survey, more than 40% of businesses have limited visibility, or 
almost none, into their existing data storage needs, and almost half struggle to 
forecast storage capacity. By contrast, best-practice storage utilisation is 
typically around 75%. Based on direct feedback from the multiple large 
organisations surveyed, Unisys confirmed that only 20% of businesses achieve 
that level of utilisation or above. 
 
Nikki Wilton, director of information and data management, Unisys, commented, 
"Most organisations struggle with storage complexity and cost because they don't 
know what they have or what they really need. Consequently, they often try to 
manage growth by just buying more. Even more alarming, some run the very real 
risk of data loss through a simple lack of visibility. For example, one large 
public-sector organisation that signed up for our headline report discovered 
that large amounts of data were unprotected due to simple configuration issues. 
Just imagine the reputational damage if the problem had remained undetected and 
data had been lost as a result." 
 
Wilton continued, "The tools available in the vendor community do a great job of 
day to day management, but none of them can easily produce a report of this 
quality which pinpoints immediate areas for concern and suggests an effective 
plan for the future." 
 
Ian Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Xploite commented: "We are delighted that 
Unisys selected Storage Fusion as a partner to provide its customers with a 
global Storage Resource Analysis service. Storage Fusion was already 
experiencing the benefits of exploiting the commercial power of SaaS through the 
streamlined pricing strategy it implemented last August. This agreement has 
accelerated that growth and underpins the benefits of that change in strategy." 
 
 
Enquiries: 
 
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| Xploite plc        | Brewin Dolphin     | Hansard Communications | 
| Ian Smith, CEO     | Matt Davis / Neil  | Justine James / Kirsty | 
| Robert Arrowsmith, | McDonald           | Corcoran               | 
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Notes to Editors 
 
About Storage Fusion 
 
Storage Fusion's Storage Resource Analysis (SRA) automates the processes 
associated with storage 
analytics. 
 
Storage Allocation typically involves spending countless hours or even days 
extracting disparate data for from multiple management tools, which is an 
inefficient, inaccurate process which cannot be scaled for large deployments. 
SRA provides an interactive "single pane of glass" delivered via a secure web 
portal making it a powerful decision tool. 
 
SRA brings both business intelligence and automated administration analysis to 
storage management. It allows managers to gain real transparency of their 
storage assets and allows administrators true insight into how their 
heterogeneous storage estate is installed, configured, tiered, allocated, 
virtualised and assigned. 
 
About Unisys 
Unisys is a worldwide information technology company. We provide a portfolio of 
IT services, software, and technology that solves critical problems for clients. 
We specialise in helping clients secure their operations, increase the 
efficiency and utilisation of their data centers, enhance support to their end 
users and constituents, and modernise their enterprise applications. To provide 
these services and solutions, we bring together offerings and capabilities in 
outsourcing services, systems integration and consulting services, 
infrastructure services, maintenance services, and high-end server technology. 
With approximately 26,000 employees, Unisys serves commercial organisations and 
government agencies throughout the world. For more information, visit 
www.unisys.com. 
 
 
This information is provided by RNS 
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange 
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