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WYSDM SOFTWARE CEO ALAN ATKINSON TO DISCUSS BEST PRACTICES FOR MANAGING INFORMATION PROTECTION AT ENTERPRISE INFORMATION WORLD

NEW YORK, NY — May 16, 2006 —Alan Atkinson, CEO of WysDM Software, the leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, will discuss the drivers behind information protection management at Enterprise Information World on May 25. His session, titled "Is Your Business Protected? The Need for Managing Information Protection - A Best Practices View," will address the challenges organizations face with today's large and complex backup and recovery environments.

Information requirements continue to expand in size and complexity, and the cost of managing that information continues to escalate. In his presentation Atkinson will discuss how information protection requirements have shifted from "Did the backup work?" to the much more complex question, "Is my business protected?" While organizations may have the ability to back up and restore their corporate information, being able to take action before critical information is at risk is a decidedly different issue.

In addition, regulatory burdens mean that protecting information and keeping it in compliance is of paramount importance today and a prime concern of every backup administrator. Managing information protection has become a necessity. Atkinson will discuss ways to bridge the gap between the technical and business definitions of successful information protection management, and how to implement an advanced strategy that ensures the health of information management environments, ensures compliance based on business policies to reduce exposure, and reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) by optimizing the storage environment and leveraging existing resources for optimum efficiency.

The first event designed to aid managers in planning and implementing an information-centric enterprise to address the complexity of compliance, legal, and security risk, Enterprise Information World (EIW) will be held May 23-25, 2006, at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Secaucus, New Jersey, just outside New York City. EIW is sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), a not-for-profit global organization comprising more than 460 member companies and close to 7,000 individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. For more information about EIW, visit www.enterpriseinformationworld.com.

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.

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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