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WYSDM ANNOUNCES OEM AGREEMENT WITH AVAMAR

Avamar to Introduce Avamar Advanced Reporter

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD SAN DIEGO, Calif. —April 4, 2006—WysDM® Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, and Avamar Technologies, a leading provider of innovative data protection solutions, announced today that the two companies have entered into an OEM agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Avamar will introduce Avamar Advanced Reporter into its premier, disk-based data protection platform. WysDM continues to expand its global reach by signing the company’s second OEM agreement in just six months.

"It's a good move for Avamar to offer its customers comprehensive reporting – very few backup vendors would be so bold. I like the WysDM solution. Customers can't fix things unless they know where to look," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

WysDM for Backups monitors and analyzes data from all major components of the backup environment including servers, storage, networks and applications, and provides a comprehensive set of reports on all aspects of backup operations from service level agreements (SLAs) to regulatory compliance to per-device performance. The only true DPM solution that provides both comprehensive reports and advanced analysis even in the largest and most complex backup environments, WysDM for Backups will provide Avamar’s Axion data protection platform with vital DPM capabilities including intelligent backup management, end-to-end data protection management, and SLA compliance.

“With its sophisticated backup reporting data coupled with business rules and predictive analysis, WysDM is emerging as a clear leader of DPM solutions,” said Steve Kenniston, vice president, corporate development, Avamar. “As data protection environments become increasingly critical to the success of their business, customers need heterogeneous management. The partnership between our two companies will provide a comprehensive data protection platform that provides visibility and a detailed understanding of the entire data protection ecosystem across multiple backup technologies.”

“Avamar represents the type of innovative company with which WysDM seeks to partner,” said Alan Atkinson, CEO of WysDM. “This partnership further endorses WysDM’s position in the market. Not only does WysDM report across heterogeneous backup vendors, we also analyze the deepest levels of the data protection environment to optimize performance, track SLA compliance, and predict future trends. No other DPM company comes close to our level of product development, and we are delighted to complement Avamar Axion with WysDM’s technology to enhance customers’ data protection management capabilities.”

Avamar is leading a new wave of innovative solutions that deliver on the promise of disk-based solutions for backup, restore, and disaster recovery. Founded in 1999, Avamar is currently shipping Axion, the first true disk-based data protection solution, to both mid-tier and large enterprise customers. Axion provides unique functionality, performance and efficiency made possible by taking maximum advantage of today’s affordable disk storage technology. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Avamar has offices throughout the United States. The privately held company’s leading international investors include CMGI@Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit www.avamar.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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