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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary WELCOME TO KOMPRISE! 60th Edition of The IT Press Tour

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©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary KOMPRISE INTELLIGENT DATA MANAGEMENT January 2025 Update Kumar Goswami, CEO Krishna Subramanian, President and COO Mike Peercy, CTO Paul Chen, Product Management Polly Traylor, Marketing Darren Cunningham, Marketing

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary TODAY’S AGENDA Introduction to Komprise and Company Update • Kumar Goswami, cofounder and CEO The AI Opportunity for Komprise • Introducing Sensitive Data Management • Smart Data Ingestion Discussion

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary KOMPRISE IS NOW THE RECOGNIZED LEADER IN UNSTRUCTURED DATA MANAGEMENT THANK YOU COLDAGO RESEARCH!

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary To change the way the world manages data. From storage administration to strategic analytics-driven data management. From data "locked away" to data "securely available" – when, how, where it’s needed. OUR MISSION VISION

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary TRENDS AND REQUIREMENTS WE RECOGNIZED EARLY ON 1. Unstructured Data Growth (now 90% of data created in the enterprise, IBM) 2. Never Get in the Hot Data Path 3. Make it Actionable 4. Must Build for Massive Scale, but Maximum Simplicity

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary • Know First: Analyze, search, tag, execute • Move Smart: Tier, migrate, replicate, confine • Take Control: AI-ready data workflow, optimized costs, no vendor lock-in ONE PLATFORM TO MANAGE ALL YOUR UNSTRUCTURED DATA Files Stores Public Cloud Object Stores/ Private Cloud Independent Data Management to See, Search, Use Data Across Silos. Mobility Visibility Value

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary Apps & Users Targets (NAS, Object, Cloud) Apps & Users Sources (NAS, Object, Cloud) Komprise Director Open Protocol Control & Meta-Metadata Encrypted Data Komprise Cloud Analyze, Search, Tag, Execute (NFS, SMB)  Standards based  No agents, no stubs  Transparent without being in hot data path  Native data access  Scale-out grid  Easy, cloud service Minimum 2 Observers, 2 Proxy Servers

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary • Analytics-Driven Unstructured Data Management as a Service • Patented technology, proven expertise • Growing at 40% YoY • HQ in Silicon Valley • Fortune 500 data-heavy enterprises on storage, backup, cloud, ransomware costs data migrations AI data workflows

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 10 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 10 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary WE'VE BECOME THE DE FACTO DATA MIGRATION AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR PARTNERS

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary RECENT WINS DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF THE PLATFORM Financial Services USE CASE: 10 PB migration  100+ PB, full Why Komprise? “Komprise has the most comprehensive migration tool on the market for large- scale global migrations.” Key Benefit: • Built global migration factory on Komprise • Foundation for AI Research Hospital Why Komprise? • Deep Analytics, tagging, share-based access, ease of use Key Benefit: • Operationalized relationship between central IT & departments, chargeback STaaS model USE CASE: Self-Service for Departments Law Firm Why Komprise? • $900k Azure tiering savings expands to address ransomware with unified platform Key Benefit: • Dramatically reduced ransomware attack surface and costs USE CASE: Tiering, Ransomware

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary TODAY’S AGENDA Introduction to Komprise and Company Update • Kumar Goswami, cofounder and CEO The AI Opportunity for Komprise • Introducing Sensitive Data Management • Smart Data Ingestion Discussion

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary GENAI NEEDS DATA MANAGEMENT MORE THAN FASTER STORAGE

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary AI NEEDS DATA…AND MOST OF IT IS UNSTRUCTURED!

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©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 15 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary DISCUSSION

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 16 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 16 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 17 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 17 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary TALKING TO CUSTOMERS ABOUT AI AND THIS IS WHAT WE HEAR WHY SHOULD THE DATA STORAGE TEAM CARE ABOUT AI? GOVERN, SECURE Detect sensitive data, set policies, reduce attack surface MOVE Automate AI data ingestion, migration, etc. SEARCH Help users classify, find, tag the right data

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 18 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 18 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary SMART DATA WORKFLOW MANAGER ANNOUNCED IN 2024 • Workflow Wizard • Global Search and Analytics • Pre-Built Integrations • Automated Workflows • Intuitive Monitoring

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 19 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 19 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary • 100x reduction in time and effort • No manual search, inspection, copying of millions of files • 3M files -> 10k images of interest -> Tagged 9 files with picture of JFK • Time taken: 1hr 53min -- Manually this could take half the summer • Repeatable – next search will take only minutes Search Run AI Tag

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 20 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 20 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary NEWS: SENSITIVE DATA DETECTION FOR AI DATA GOVERNANCE Announced yesterday! • Search Across Silos • Scan for PII and custom sources (regex) • Process data locally • Move and Remediate • Set policies to act on what you find • Automate ongoing workflows • Classify and Exclude • Tag and bring structure to unstructured data • Pre-process for AI ingest

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©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 21 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary DEMO EXPANDING THE ROLE OF STORAGE ADMIN TO AI DATA GOVERNANCE, SECURE VISIBILITY 1. Komprise reading file content – not just metadata – to find specific information 2. Processing locally – data never leaves customer environment 3. Data that we find, we tag

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 22 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 22 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary SENSITIVE DATA MANAGEMENT USE CASES Sensitive Data Handling for Cyber-Resilience Prevent Unintended Data Leakage During AI Ingest AI Data Workflow Auditing With the new PII capabilities, storage admins get an extremely powerful feature on top of an already impressive tool. Storage teams are challenged to do more with less and features like these are why we are proud to partner with Komprise.

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©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 23 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary DISCUSSION

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 24 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 24 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary TODAY’S AGENDA Introduction to Komprise and Company Update • Kumar Goswami, cofounder and CEO The AI Opportunity for Komprise • Introducing Sensitive Data Management • Smart Data Ingestion • Mike Peercy, Komprise cofounder and CTO Discussion

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 25 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 25 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary ENRICH DATA FOR OPENAI PROMPT GROUNDING Run curated queries on Komprise GFI Copy matching files to Azure blob container Search index Komprise Global File Index Azure blob container Datastore indexer Datastore indexer Known sources RAG

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©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 26 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary AI DATA INGESTION DEMO

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 27 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 27 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary KOMPRISE CAN BE THE DATA ENGINE FOR AI AI Needs Unstructured Data • 90% of data that’s created in the enterprise Schema-Based Tools (ETL, etc.) Won’t Work • Expect linear workflow • AI workflow is different: Search, Curate, Move What’s Needed AI Requires a Metadatabase to Enrich, Mobilize and Persist • Independent from data storage

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©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 28 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary THANK YOU!

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©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 29 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary CUSTOMER STORIES

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 30 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 30 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM SEES THE POWER OF KOMPRISE MIGRATION…AS THE FOUNDATION FOR DATA MANAGEMENT Use Case: • Started with 10 PB migration use case 2 years ago with a technology alliance partner • Expanded to 100+ PB full platform deal Challenge: • According to customer NAS migration tools are "Tricky" and we have “the most comprehensive migration tool on the market for large-scale global migrations.” Why Komprise? • Our ability to leverage a partner’s Enterprise License Agreement ensures we’re able to be part of larger opportunity. • Broader platform will become key to future object storage migrations and AI initiatives

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 31 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 31 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM SEES THE POWER OF KOMPRISE MIGRATION…AS THE FOUNDATION FOR DATA MANAGEMENT • Partner feedback: Once you get into an account Komprise becomes a very powerful software product within a customer environment. Word spreads to other teams within an organization and you can accomplish Komprise deals in departments outside of the folks you initially sell to.

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 32 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 32 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary LARGE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION DELIVERS VISIBILITY TO DEPARTMENTAL TEAMS Use Case • Long-time customer • Role segregation as part of chargeback STaaS model • Departmental teams know their data and need transparency, accountability Challenge • How to empower end-user teams but maintain control

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 33 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 33 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary LARGE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION DELIVERS VISIBILITY TO DEPARTMENTAL TEAMS Why Komprise? • Users outside of IT storage are tagging, setting up culled data sets, etc. with Deep Analytics role • Scalable way to access, manage data • Expands reach of storage teams and gives users direct access to their data New Komprise users:

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©2019 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 34 ©2025 Komprise, Inc. All rights reserved. 34 Komprise Confidential and Proprietary KATTEN LAW MAKES KOMPRISE CORE TO RANSOMWARE STRATEGY Use Case: • Came in with Azure migration program • Expanded to tiering • Komprise is now key to their ransomware strategy Challenge: • Seeing repeatable use case here in legal services Why Komprise? • Global visibility drives better / smarter investments