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WYSDM ACHIEVES MAJOR MILESTONES FOR 2005; TRIPLES CUSTOMER BASE AS GLOBAL DEMAND ACCELERATES FOR DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Companies Standardize on WysDM for Optimized Backup and Recovery Through Superior Service Level Reporting and Analytics

NEW YORK, NY—Dec. 12, 2005—WysDM Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative Data Protection Management (DPM) solutions, announced today that it has tripled its customer base in 2005. WysDM's comprehensive backup reporting and predictive analysis software is used in some of the largest datacenter environments in the world to protect and manage more than a petabyte of backed up data each week. Closing out the year with a strong OEM deal with EMC and leading channel partners, WysDM has extended its reach across five continents and is poised for even greater growth next year.

"WysDM's solution helps enterprises to not only report on critical areas, but to really control their infrastructure holistically," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Once users get their hands on this software, it will be hard to live without."

Momentous Milestones Achieved in 2005
In addition to tripling the company’s customer base, WysDM further bolstered its industry leadership position and solidified its future through the infusion of enhanced DPM product offerings delivered through a superior channel. WysDM’s highlights of 2005 included:

• WysDM 3 is the industry’s premier platform for delivering the most advanced DPM solutions. WysDM’s Cross Domain CorrelationTM gathers data from all major components of the network environment including servers, storage, and applications - while the Predictive Analysis Engine carries out advanced analysis on all aspects of the data.
  
  WysDM 3 enhances backup reliability by continually monitoring the environment for faulty configurations, inefficiencies and anomalies, and alerting to any of these conditions before they contribute to backup failure. WysDM’s dynamic analytic monitoring enables capacity planning, optimizes the backup environment, and ensures compliance by utilizing policies for retention periods and backup schedules. WysDM can report on compliance and issues compliance risk alerts.

• WysDM for BackupsTM provides a view of every component in the backup path. WysDM for Backups obtains data from major backup applications and provides a comprehensive set of reports on all aspects of backups, from operations to engineering to management. The Predictive Analysis Engine ensures that business policies are followed, providing confidence through active compliance enforcement.

• WysDM for FileserversTM provides the visibility required to understand even the largest and most complex of fileserving environments. WysDM’s data protection management platform obtains information from all NetApp filers and NearStores. This information allows WysDM for Fileservers to provide a comprehensive set of reports on all aspects of fileserver operation, from hardware configuration to per-process performance.

• WysDM expanded its reach across five continents as a result of a strategic OEM relationship with EMC and leading channel partners including Cambridge Computer, InTechnology, MTI, n3K, Posetiv, STORMATRIX, and TriSys. WysDM’s advanced DPM solutions are used by leading Global 2000 customers in Aerospace, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunication, and Service Provider industries.

• In November, an audience of exclusive IT users at the Storage Decisions show in Las Vegas selected WysDM as the winner of the Backup Reporting Shoot-out. Conducted by Diogenes Analytical Laboratories, Diogenes’ independent tests compared a wide variety of factors, including management, risk, performance maximization, and forecasting factors. Diogenes demonstrated the results of the tests to a Storage Visions IT audience, and reported that WysDM won in the audience vote in every category including ease of operation, most robust functionality, most compelling technology, best fit for customer environment, best performance, vendor preference, and purchase choice.

 
“We have established ourselves as a dominant force to deliver the industry’s most advanced Data Protection Management solutions,” said Alan Atkinson, president and CEO of WysDM. “The name of the game is focus and execution and we have achieved significant growth this year in all areas by adding new customers, partners and vertical markets around the world and integrating deeper functionality into our product. We will continue to expand our global footprint to deliver the most valued set of backup reporting and analysis solutions, helping to avert costly backup and compliance issues.”

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 BackupsTM uses the company’s patent-pending Cross-Domain CorrelationTM 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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