FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:STORAGEIO GROUP IDENTIFIES WYSDM AS THE MOST IN-DEPTH, APPLICATION-AWARE DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
Collecting Data from Various Technology Domains, WysDM's Robust Analysis Engine Enables Application- and Business-Aware Event Correlation and Analysis
STORAGE DECISIONS CONFERENCE—CHICAGO— May 15, 2007 —WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of advanced data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today that leading industry analyst firm StorageIO Group has identified WysDM as the most comprehensive solution for application- and business-aware data protection management (DPM). In pointing out that DPM should be considered part of an overall IT infrastructure resource management (IRM) process, a StorageIO report issued May 15 stated that the use of solutions such as WysDM's, which have been designed to work with other IRM tools and technologies, is the best way for companies to ensure effective service delivery and availability. The complete report, "Business and Application Aware DPM," is available at http://www.wysdm.com/StorageIO_dpm.html.
"Along with complementing and co-existing with other IRM tools and technologies, WysDM is positioned to support next-generation DPM," said Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst, StorageIO Group. "Most backup reporting and DPM tools today provide basic reporting and interpretive analysis of report results in reports or dashboards," continued Schulz. "WysDM builds on this basic functionality by leveraging its predictive correlative analysis engine to connect the dots across different IT resource domains that are involved in delivering application services and that need to be protected to remain compliant with regulatory and service requirements from a business and application aware perspective."
The report outlines the feature sets for several DPM and IRM backup reporting solutions and the progression from basic reporting to more in-depth application and business function aware event and activity analysis. The report recognizes that WysDM delivers the most comprehensive set of features, including:
"Because companies need to protect ever-increasing volumes of data, their storage infrastructure is becoming extremely complex and very difficult to manage," said Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM Software. "The influx of new regulatory compliance requirements and the need to ensure data availability without interruption has resulted in many data protection interdependencies across multiple business applications and IT entities. The StorageIO Group report effectively analyzes the growing need for DPM solutions that are application- and business-aware so that organizations can make informed business decisions related to storage capacity planning, performance, change control, and resource utilization."
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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