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WITH ARSENAL DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
Leading Storage Management Services Provider Augments Service with
WysDM for Backups™ Auditing and Analysis Capabilities
June 28, 2004 - NEW YORK - SysDM, Inc., a leading developer of innovative backup reporting
and analysis solutions, and Arsenal Digital Solutions, the leading storage management services
provider, jointly announced today that Arsenal is deploying the WysDM for Backups solution from
SysDM. WysDM for Backups™ powerful auditing and analysis capabilities will help enhance Arsenal's
services for its partners and their customers.
"Our customers require sophisticated auditing, analysis and reporting for their mission critical data,"
said Frank Brick, CEO at Arsenal Digital Solutions. "We believe the advanced tools from SysDM
will complement the existing capabilities of our world-class service architecture and provide our
customers with important visibility, intelligence, and confidence that their service levels are being
met."
"Arsenal's core business is managing the overall data protection and business continuity
requirements of some of the world's most data-intensive organizations," said Alan Atkinson, cofounder
and CEO of SysDM. "We are looking forward to working with Arsenal as they continue to
expand their service capabilities to these customers."
About WysDM for Backups™
With WysDM for Backups, enterprises are able to meet their service agreements, backup within
prescribed time windows, and ensure their data is backed up and able to be restored - alleviating
significant business risks. WysDM for Backups gathers and correlates performance and
configuration information from enterprise-wide elements. These elements can include backup servers
and software, tape libraries and drives, storage applications, servers, network devices, and storage
arrays. WysDM for Backups consolidates performance information and utilization information from
all these assets, highlighting bottlenecks.
Cross-Domain Correlation™
WysDM for Backups implements SysDM's patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation technology.
This innovative, agent-less technology analyzes information collected from network, storage, systems
and application domains to provide IT teams with real-time backup analysis describing what
happened, what's happening now and what may happen.
The Cross-Domain Correlation functionality enables backup administrators to pinpoint the true
cause of infrastructure failures and performance bottlenecks before they impact the business.
Because WysDM for Backups actively collects data (rather than solely reacting to events), it is able to
interpret trending information from its historical data mine.
WysDM for Backups installs in hours, returning its value immediately, as opposed to traditional
solutions that take days, weeks or even months. No installation is required on backup servers, and
the application integrates with existing IT tools via XML APIs. WysDM for Backups runs under
Solaris, Linux or Windows. Screen shots and customer references are available upon request.
About Arsenal Digital Solutions
Arsenal Digital Solutions, the leading Storage Management Services (SMS) provider, drives highmargin
revenue for hosting and network service providers through value-added, on-demand storage
services. Leveraging its proven services architecture and storage expertise, Arsenal delivers a
comprehensive and flexible suite of data protection and business continuity services through its
partners to more than 800 customers in 25 data centers in 19 cities worldwide. Headquartered in
Cary , N.C. , Arsenal is a privately held, venture-backed company. For more information on Arsenal,
its solutions and services, visit www.arsenaldigital.com.
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