FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM TO SHOWCASE SOLUTIONS FOR REAL-TIME BACKUP AND RECOVERY ANALYSIS AT SYMANTEC VISION 2006

Data Protection Management Solution Leader Demonstrates WysDM for Backups and WysDM for Fileservers at Premier Technology Conference

NEW YORK—May 2, 2006—WysDM® Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, and Avamar Technologies, a leading provider of innovative data protection solutions, announced today it will demonstrate its WysDM for Backups™ and WysDM for Fileservers™ products at Symantec Vision 2006 in San Francisco, May 8-11, at the Moscone West Convention Center, in Booth 327.

The only true DPM solution that provides both comprehensive reports and advanced analysis, WysDM for Backups provides a global view that enables users to understand even the largest and most complex backup and recovery environments.

WysDM for Fileservers provides the visibility required to understand large and complex fileserving environments. Utilizing the WysDM® adaptive architecture, WysDM for Fileservers provides comprehensive reporting and analysis on all aspects of fileserver operations, including hardware configuration, virtualization, snapshot management, and performance.

Both WysDM for Backups and WysDM for Fileservers feature business policy enforcement for meeting service-level agreements, regulatory compliance, and internal best practices requirements.

WysDM DPM solutions use a patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology to analyze information collected from all major components of the data protection environment, including servers, storage, networks, and applications. The solutions' adaptive architecture, combined with advanced service-level reporting and predictive analytics, ensures the health and state of critical backup, recovery and fileserver environments.

"Symantec Vision is a gathering place for storage professionals who are serious about effectively managing their entire data protection environment and enforcing best practices across the organization," said Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM Software. "We look forward to demonstrating our industry-leading DPM capabilities and real-world examples of how we address customers' data protection challenges."

In its ninth year, Symantec Vision is expected to draw nearly 3,500 IT professionals to San Francisco's Moscone West exhibit hall for four days, May 8-11, 2006. For more information about the conference, please visit www.veritas.com/vision/.

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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