FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM SELECTED AS MOST VALUABLE PRODUCT AWARD FINALIST

NEW YORK , New York —April 24, 2006—WysDM® Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist for the Most Valuable Product (MVP) Award in the Most Innovative Product category for its WysDM for Fileservers product. Winners will be announced during an awards ceremony on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at Storage World Conference Spring 2006.

The MVP Awards Program recognizes the "best of the best" of storage networking products in the industry. This prestigious awards program is co-sponsored by two user-focused organizations: InfoStor Magazine, the leading storage-specific publication for enterprise storage professionals, and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP), the first worldwide organization dedicated to the needs of storage networking users.

"InfoStor congratulates all of the MVP finalists," said Dave Simpson, editor-in-chief of InfoStor. "Companies such as WysDM have demonstrated technology leadership and innovation that set them apart from others in the industry."

Fileservers are a key part of many storage environments and are a critical part of today’s enterprise infrastructure. The rapid increase in their functionality has not been matched with additional visibility into these functions. WysDM for Fileservers provides the visibility required to understand even the largest and most complex file-serving 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.

The ASNP's mission is "to build a worldwide community of storage networking users and to provide members with valuable educational programs and professional development opportunities." ASNP provides an open forum for members to discuss real-world problems and solutions related to storage networking. Through its regional chapters, annual meeting, and online portal, ASNP offers extensive training and professional development opportunities. For more information, please visit www.asnp.org.

InfoStor is the leading monthly publication dedicated solely to storage coverage. Its worldwide audience of 50,000 readers includes IT storage managers and storage professionals in the channel, including value-added resellers (VARs), storage/systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, please visit www.infostor.com.

WysDM is the industry’s first and only data protection management (DPM) supplier to offer detailed, custom analysis of the entire data protection environment, providing the most comprehensive insight into past, present and future data protection reliability, performance and compliance. Founded in 2001 by a team of storage and software executives from, Goldman Sachs, Micromuse and Storage Networks, the company has established significant traction on the customer, partner and technology fronts, and its flagship product, WysDM for Backups™ uses the company’s patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology to enable system administrators and IT teams to analyze information collected from network, storage, system, and application domains to provide the most comprehensive, real-time backup analysis available. For more information, visit www.wysdm.com.

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