Demonstrates New WysDM 4 DPM Enhancements Which Enable Greater

Compliance Management and Capacity Planning

NEW YORK—October 24, 2007—WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of advanced data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today that it will sponsor the Solutions Showcase pavilion at Computerworld's Storage Networking World (SNW) Europe conference, to be held October 29-31, 2007. The conference will take place at the Congress Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany.

During SNW Europe, WysDM will also demonstrate the latest release of its DPM software suite, WysDM 4, which includes major enhancements to its WysDM for Backups™ and WysDM for Fileservers™ products and adds WysDM for Disks, which brings WysDM's market-leading DPM functionality to disk arrays. Throughout the new WysDM 4 platform, the company has added significant advances in compliance and risk mitigation, security, and capacity planning to provide businesses with a full picture of their data protection risk while reducing the time to provision storage and enhancing overall storage utilization. WysDM 4 was announced on October 16, 2007.

"The new WysDM 4 has been designed to meet customer demand for greater insight into data protection infrastructures so that storage administrators can identify problems before they happen," said Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM Software. "The Solutions Showcase at SNW Europe is a great venue for us to further raise awareness of how customers can use WysDM to minimize their data protection risk and automate capacity planning while ensuring compliance and improving operational efficiency."

SNW Europe Solutions Showcase will highlight the most current and compelling areas of the data storage market. Vendors will demonstrate relevant solutions to the challenges faced by end-users and add value by introducing applications and technologies that solve their business problems and show them new areas in storage and data management.

The theme for this year's SNW Europe is "Information in Motion." The show will offer key-note speakers, end-user case studies, SNIA tutorials, and vendor sessions on the latest technology and market trends across Europe. For more information on the show, visit www.snweurope.com/.

About the WysDM Data Protection Management (DPM) Software Suite

WysDM's DPM solutions feature business policy enforcement for meeting service-level agreements, regulatory compliance, and internal best practices requirements. The WysDM 4 suite of products includes:

WysDM for Backups, WysDM's flagship product, uses a patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology to analyze information collected from all major components of the data protection environment, including servers, storage, networks, and applications. WysDM's Predictive Analysis Engine (PAE) integrates with existing infrastructure tools to provide automatic notification of performance problems, service-level agreement (SLA) violations, poorly optimized environments, risks associated with recovery time objectives, and more. The PAE's unique ability allows the system to detect very subtle problems and inefficiencies, resulting in significant risk reduction and cost savings.

The new WysDM for Disks, utilizes WysDM's DPM technology to provide configuration and status information for disk arrays, allowing storage administrators to manage utilization metrics, balance LUN allocations across array ports, and ensure fan-out ratios do not exceed vendors' specifications.

WysDM for Fileservers provides the visibility required to understand large and complex fileserving environments. Utilizing the WysDM^® adaptive architecture, WysDM for Fileservers provides comprehensive reporting and analysis on all aspects of fileserver operations, including hardware configuration, virtualization, snapshot management, and performance.

About WysDM

WysDM is the industry's leading provider of data protection management (DPM) solutions which deliver a complete picture of data protection risk while reducing the time to provision storage and enhancing overall storage utilization. Headquartered in New York, WysDM was founded in 2001 by a team of storage and software executives from Goldman Sachs, Micromuse, and StorageNetworks. The company's flagship product, WysDM for Backups^™, pairs cross-domain correlation and a predictive analysis engine with an adaptive architecture for complete awareness of business policies, including compliance, risk mitigation, security and capacity planning. For more information, visit www.wysdm.com.

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