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Contact:WYSDM SOFTWARE CEO ALAN ATKINSON TO PARTICIPATE IN DATA PROTECTION SUMMIT AT STORAGE WORLD CONFERENCE 2006
WysDM for File Servers Named as a Finalist for the Most Valuable Product Award
NEW YORK— June 12, 2006—Alan Atkinson, CEO of WysDM Software, the leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, will speak at the Data Protection Summit at Storage World Conference 2006, 4:50-5:40 p.m. on June 20 in Long Beach, California. Participants in the Data Protection Summit panel session will discuss the increasing value of data amidst global and economic events; the importance of data protection; and the benefits and trade-offs of using protection tools such as mirroring, point-in-time copies, journaling, snapshot copies, and incremental or differential backup.
The Data Protection Summit, part of the conference’s Business Continuance Track, will be moderated by Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst, The Taneja Group. In addition to Atkinson, other participants in the summit panel include Frank Slootman, president and CEO, Data Domain; Phil Gilmour, president and CEO, Evault; John Martin, vice president, Product Management, Riverbed Technology; and George Symons, CTO, Information Management Software, EMC Corp.
About Storage World Conference
Storage World Conference (SWC) focuses on making storage networking and management education more accessible to all users, from small and medium-sized business to the large-scale enterprise. SWC’s widely recognized continuing education program and exhibition expands to two full conferences in 2006. Storage World Conference Spring will be held June 20-22, at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California. Storage World Conference Fall will be held September 19-21 at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston. For more information about Storage World Conference 2006, visit www.storageworldconference.com/landing_2006 .
The Association of Storage Networking Professionals, which hosts SWC, has selected WysDM for File Servers as a finalist in the Most Valuable Product Awards Program. Winners of the MVP program will be announced at the conference.
WysDM for Fileservers utilizes the WysDM data protection management platform to obtain information from all NetApp filers and NearStores and provide a comprehensive set of reports on all aspects of fileserver operation, from hardware configuration to per-process performance for even the largest and most complex of fileserving environments.
WysDM for Fileservers standardizes fileservers by keeping detailed logs of key configuration parameters and tracking all changes. Users can also proactively compare fileserver configurations and flag differences, to guard against potential future failures and eliminate costly downtime. By balancing storage requirements with the capabilities of the fileserver, WysDM for Fileservers provides the highest levels of asset usage without compromising performance or reliability. Predictive analysis aids in capacity planning and allocation, while fileserver performance benefits from tracking metrics on each fileserver as well as the surrounding environment.
About Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM
Alan Atkinson, CEO and co-founder of WysDM Software, has more than 20 years of experience in the storage technology industry. Before WysDM, he was senior vice president of engineering for Storage Networks, the first storage service provider. Storage Networks’ customers included Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Network Appliance. Before Storage Networks, Atkinson was IT vice president at Goldman Sachs, where he established the Storage and Capacity Management Group and was responsible for the firm’s storage infrastructure worldwide. After earning a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, Atkinson began his career at AT&T Bell Labs.
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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