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WYSDM SOFTWARE QUADRUPLES CUSTOMER BASE AS DEMAND FOR LEADING-EDGE DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT SOLUTION EXPLODES

NEW YORK—Dec. 12, 2006—WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today that it has acquired more than 200 customers in the last 18 months — quadrupling its customer base in just the last year. Adoption of the company’s comprehensive backup reporting and predictive analysis software has rapidly accelerated, demonstrating the need enterprise organizations have for more efficiently managing their backup and recovery environments. Other key WysDM milestones in 2006 include new OEM agreements with COPAN Systems and Avamar, and expansion of the company’s reseller channel and footprint into the Asia Pacific region.

“It is not surprising that WysDM has enjoyed a successful year,” said Arun Taneja, founder, the Taneja Group. “We continue to see a rise in the demand for increased visibility and control over the data protection environment as organizations realize they need more than just a reporting tool. WysDM software goes well beyond reporting and enables businesses to prevent problems in the network before they occur.”

Milestones Achieved in 2006
In addition to quadrupling the company’s customer base, WysDM further bolstered its industry leadership position with enhanced DPM offerings delivered through a strong global channel, industry accolades, and expansion of its workforce to support the company’s rapid growth. WysDM highlights for 2006 include:

Enhancements to WysDM Data Protection Management Software Suite
The WysDM software suite of advanced backup management products provides the only true DPM offering that provides both comprehensive reports and advanced analysis. Both WysDM for Backups and WysDM for Fileservers provide a global view that enables users to understand even the largest and most complex environments. WysDM’s adaptive architecture, combined with advanced service-level reporting and predictive analytics, ensures the health and state of critical backup, recovery and fileserver environments.

• WysDM added greater functionality to the newest version of its flagship product, WysDM for Backups 3.5, including deeper intelligence, multistage backup support, rapid
• service-level agreement (SLA) resolution and management, and support for new technologies.
• WysDM for Fileservers 3.5 continues to enhance support for fileserving environments, with additional functionality for emerging features such as iSCSI as well as the use of WysDM’s Predictive Analysis Engine to ensure optimum configuration and performance.
• WysDM enhanced its software suite to include application discovery capabilities that provide reporting and analysis to meet critical business requirements. This added functionality bridges the gap between technical requirements and business objectives by enabling organizations to gather information associated with applications, recovery points, and restore times to ensure regulatory compliance and business continuity.

Strengthening Deal Flow through the Channel
WysDM announced new reseller agreements as well as two new OEM agreements in 2006.

• Data backup and storage specialist Redstor joined InTechnology, Posetiv, and 2e2 in distributing WysDM’s intelligent data protection management solutions to European enterprise customers. Redstor’s customers, which are primarily in the finance, manufacturing, education, and oil and gas industries, include companies such as Leaseplan, BP, CSR, and the NHS.
• Building on the company’s significant customer and partner relationships in Europe and North America, WysDM extended its presence into the Asia Pacific region by partnering with BIOS Corporation Japan. WysDM’s DPM solution complements BIOS’s existing portfolio of storage and data protection solutions.
• WysDM signed OEM agreements with COPAN Systems and Avamar Technologies. COPAN is reselling WysDM for Backups as a complementary component of its Persistent Data Storage Architecture (PDSA) solution. Avamar is integrating its disk-based data protection platform with WysDM's DPM software to create an add-on module, Avamar Advanced Reporter.

Industry Accolades

• InfoStor Magazine and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP) selected WysDM for Fileservers as a finalist for the Most Valuable Product (MVP) Award in the Most Innovative Product category. The MVP awards program recognizes the “best of the best” storage networking products in the industry.
• CRN magazine named WysDM one of its top 100 emerging technology companies. The CRN Emerging Technology 100 list honors up-and-coming vendors that have closely tied their success to the development of an effective channel strategy. The CRN editorial team chooses emerging vendors based on their unique technology contributions, channel acumen, customer references, and future channel dedication.

Scaling the Company

• To support its rapid growth and position for continued expansion, WysDM has expanded its employee base, scaling the company’s size by 30 percent.
• In addition to opening an office in Texas, WysDM also relocated its UK headquarters in London to a state-of-the-art office three times the size of its previous home.

“Looking back at this last year, we are very pleased with how far the company has come and how the market is responding to the value that a DPM solution such as ours can deliver,” said Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM. “We couldn’t have asked for a more successful year, and we look forward to continued growth and extending our leadership in the DPM category.”

About WysDM
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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