FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM PARTNERS WITH NEXTWARE TO MEET RISING DEMAND FOR DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS IN THE JAPANESE MARKET

NEW YORK, NY — June 6, 2006 —WysDM® Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today a strategic reseller and support agreement with NextWare Ltd., that will extend the reach of WysDM's advanced DPM offering into the Japanese marketplace. Under the terms of the agreement, NextWare will offer WysDM for Backups™ software to its expansive customer base, and will provide unparalleled service and support.

WysDM's data protection management software is the industry's only complete DPM solution to identify and address serious issues surrounding backup, recovery and compliance and take action before a disaster occurs. Operating across the infrastructure, WysDM’s intelligent DPM offering gives IT administrators control over how they back up data' execute recovery, create policies, and integrate data protection with business processes.

"Enterprises can no longer afford to run their IT organizations in the dark," said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst, Taneja Group. "Knowing that your backup failed isn't sufficient in the face of stringent regulatory requirements. WysDM's DPM software shines the light on what is going on in the network and provides the intelligence and insight that is needed to ensure that data is protected and always available. WysDM's reseller strategy gives them the arms and legs to quickly deliver solutions across the globe to streamline the backup environment and reduce exposure."

Deployed with traditional backup software applications, WysDM is the only 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. WysDM’s solutions collect data from backup software, applications, networks, and server resources; and then coordinate, monitor, and control backup methodologies to ensure continuous data availability and data protection.

"NextWare's approach is to work with the leading software and hardware providers who address real issues with a clear payback," said Takayoshi Toyoda, CEO of NextWare. "With WysDM's DPM software, our customers have a seamless solution to simplify, protect, and optimize their backup infrastructure to reduce risk and accelerate the return on their IT investment."

"WysDM has the technology, product, focus and reseller partnerships in place to quickly capitalize on the DPM market opportunity," said Alan Atkinson, CEO of WysDM. "Our strategic reseller relationship with NextWare gives us the reach to deliver the most complete data protection offering to the Japanese market."

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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