FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM EXPANDS DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

DPM Leader Adds Deeper Intelligence, Support for Rapid Recovery and SLA Compliance

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD SAN DIEGO, Calif. —April 4, 2006—WysDM® Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, today announced important upgrades to its WysDM for Backups™ and WysDM for Fileservers™ products, bringing deeper intelligence, support for rapid recovery applications and SLA compliance. WysDM is the industry's first and only 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.

"Successful data protection management involves greater visibility into all aspects of backup and recovery environments, and should enable companies to maintain best practices for regulatory and compliance purposes," said Arun Taneja, founder, Taneja Group. "With the recently added functionality to its products, such as support for new technologies and greater flexibility in SLA reporting, WysDM is successfully moving its solutions up the technology stack and offering a way for companies to more effectively manage their entire data protection environment and enforce best practices across the organization."

The only true DPM solution that provides both comprehensive reports and advanced analysis, WysDM for Backups provides a global view that enables users to understand even the largest and most complex backup and recovery environments. WysDM's DPM solutions use a patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology to analyze information collected from all major components of the backup environment, including servers, storage, networks and applications. WysDM's adaptive architecture, combined with advanced service level reporting and predictive analytics ensure the health and state of critical backup, recovery and fileserver environments.

WysDM for Backups 3.5
The newest version of WysDM's flagship product, WysDM for Backups 3.5, adds deeper intelligence, multistage backup support, rapid SLA resolution and management, and support for new technologies. Key additions include:

• Support for new technologies. WysDM for Backups 3.5 provides support for new backup technologies such as Avamar Axion and virtual tape libraries (VTLs). WysDM for Backups is the only DPM solution that can seamlessly monitor, manage and predict issues that may arise when new technologies such as these are added to a backup environment.

• Multistage backup support. WysDM for Backups 3.5 provides details of backup operations such as tape vaulting and disk-to-tape destaging to give end-to-end visibility into complex data protection environments.

• Deeper SLA support. WysDM for Backups 3.5 provides resolution details for failed backups and indicates if these should be included in SLA calculations. This allows users to provide accurate numbers for SLA and chargeback.

WysDM for Fileservers 3.5
WysDM for Fileservers 3.5 continues to enhance support for fileserving environments, adding functionality for emerging features such as iSCSI as well using the Predictive Analysis Engine to ensure optimum configuration and performance. Key additions include:

• iSCSI support. WysDM for Fileservers 3.5 obtains full iSCSI details from fileservers and associated clients. Information about each configured LUN is available, and end-to-end iSCSI performance is provided through WysDM’s Cross-Domain Correlation functionality.

• Best practice enforcement. WysDM for Fileservers 3.5 comes with a number of best practice analyses that scan new and existing fileservers to highlight configurations and setups that conflict with best practice. This ensures that fileservers remain configured in a way that maintains the highest levels of performance and reliability.

• Full system configuration. Configuration details for all system files and options ensure complete coverage for change control reporting and analysis.

 
“The features we’ve added to WysDM 3.5 Backups and WysDM 3.5 Fileservers address the requirements of our rapidly growing customer base by supporting some of the most popular new data protection technologies,” said Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM. “These enhancements further extend WysDM’s lead in the data the protection management sector and we look forward to continuing to provide our customers with innovative solutions that solve their real-world data protection challenges.”

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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