FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM SOFTWARE JOINS THE SNIA TO DRIVE INTEROPERABILITY FOR DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT

NEW YORK, NY — Mar. 13, 2006 — WysDM Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, today announced that it has joined the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). As a participating member of the SNIA, WysDM will play an integral role to facilitate and drive standards and interoperability for data protection management within the newly emerging DPM market. The SNIA has several key initiatives for 2006 including the SNIA Data Management Forum's focus on Continuous Data Protection, Information Lifecycle Management, and Long Term Archiving. Since 1997, the SNIA's members have assisted the development of solutions and standards for the storage networking industry.

"WysDM's commitment to developing data protection management solutions that adapt to existing networked storage environments is synergistic to SNIA's mission to drive open standards to enable highly available, secure and trusted solutions," said Wayne M. Adams, chairman of the board of the SNIA. "Their support and participation in driving the adoption of our data management and protection initiatives will help SNIA deliver measured value to the IT community."

"From inception, WysDM's DPM products were designed to integrate seamlessly with existing enterprise backup environments," said Jim McDonald, CTO of WysDM Software. "WysDM is dedicated to enabling users to optimize and ensure the health and state of critical backup and recovery environments without adding additional management complexity. We look forward to working within the SNIA's Data Management Forum (DMF) and other workgroups to continue to develop technologies and best practices that benefit end users."

WysDM provides the industry's most comprehensive platform for delivering the most advanced DPM solutions. WysDM's Cross Domain Correlation™ coupled with its Predictive Analysis Engine gathers data from all major components of the network environment including servers, storage, and applications and carries out advanced analysis on all aspects of the data. As a result, WysDM for Backups enhances backup reliability by continually monitoring the environment for misconfigurations, 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.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organization, made up of more than 460 member companies and close to 7,000 active individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share the common goal of advancing the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at http://www.snia.org.

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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