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ANALYST GREG SCHULZ TO SPEAK AT ZIFF DAVIS STORAGE VIRTUAL TRADESHOW


NEW YORK, NY — March 21, 2007 —WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of advanced data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today that Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst for StorageIO, will participate in the Ziff Davis Storage Virtual Tradeshow on March 27, 2007. The Virtual Tradeshow will feature several storage-related panels, including "Creating an Efficient, Cost-effective Storage Infrastructure" at 1 p.m. eastern time. As part of the panel, Schulz will deliver a presentation that addresses the need for data protection management solutions.

The 45-minute panel will feature presentations from two leading storage industry analysts: Greg Schulz, principal analyst for the StorageIO Group, and Tom Trainer, senior analyst for the Evaluator Group. Schulz and Trainer will be joined by Mike Sullivan, senior vice president of Product Solutions at Vericenter, a top managed services, application hosting and IT infrastructure company.

The panel is designed to address the challenges organizations face with rapidly growing storage capacities and the struggle to identify and completely utilize the capacity they already have. What's the best way to create a storage infrastructure that can handle the enormous amounts of data that businesses are generating? And how can IT managers use that infrastructure effectively? Panelists will focus on strategies for creating a storage infrastructure that can handle the enormous amounts of data businesses are generating and how IT managers can utilize that infrastructure as efficiently as possible. For more information and to register for this Storage Virtual Tradeshow, visit http://go.zdvts.com/storage.

About Greg Schulz

Greg Schulz is the founder and a senior analyst for the StorageIO Group (www.storageio.com) as well as author of the book "Resilient Storage Networks - Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures" (Elsevier). He brings more than 25 years experience in UNIX, Windows, IBM Mainframe, OpenVMS and other environments from a clustering, server, applications, capacity planning, DR, networking and storage perspective. Greg brings a rare perspective and insight, having worked in various industries including transportation, energy and financial benefits in IT, as a vendor for storage and storage networking companies working with clients around the world, and as a storage industry analyst. He has written more than a thousand articles, papers, tips, reports and other content in addition to his books, research and consulting projects. Greg is a frequent contributor and commentator in various venues and publications.

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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