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HI-STOR PARTNERS WITH WYSDM SOFTWARE TO PROVIDE UNPARALLED INFORMATION ON THE DATA PROTECTION ENVIRONMENT

NEW YORK—January 22, 2007—WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today that it is partnering with leading tape analysis software vendor Hi-Stor in providing unparalled information about the data protection environment in a single interface.

The partnership enables Hi-Stor’s flagship StorSentryTM product to provide the data that StorSentry gathers on the health and performance of tape drives and media directly to WysDM for Backups, making it available to WysDM’s powerful reporting and analysis systems.  “Hi-Stor believes that partnering with WysDM will help both our customers by providing a single view into all backup operations, regardless of the product with which the information is gathered,” said Fernando Moreira, Chief Executive Officer, Hi-Stor.  “WysDM makes it easy for us to integrate with them and the result is a that we can provide the results of our StorSentry proactive monitoring directly to users of WysDM, giving them a single pane of glass for an unrivalled amount of backup and backup infrastructure information.”

“We are pleased to partner with Hi-Stor and provide enhancements to both our products,” said Jim McDonald, CTO, WysDM Software. “This partnership demonstrates the open nature of WysDM’s technology and how it can be used to provide higher end-user value even in the absence of industry standards.  We expect to work with more companies in this way over the coming year, with information sent direct from elements of the data protection infrastructure and consolidated within WysDM.”

About Hi-Stor

For 10 years Hi-Stor Technologies has developed its expertise in technologies of the data storage environment with key storage industry players and world class enterprises in Europe, US and Japan. Hi-Stor Technologies provides innovating software solutions for information integrity and active archiving, allowing companies to preserve their information. With StorSentryTM, its patented proactive tape automation monitoring, Hi-Stor Technologies proposes a unique product offering to allow IT teams to increase the efficiency of their backup infrastructure. For more information, visit www.hi-stor.com

About WysDM Software

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 StorageNetworks, the company has established significant traction on the customer, partner and technology fronts. 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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