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SysDM Assembles Top Veteran Storage Management Team
Leader in Storage Management Consulting and Solutions Provider assembles Top Notch team of IT Veterans

New York and London - May 2, 2003 - SysDM, Inc. announced today the rounding off of their executive management team of storage and network veterans.

SysDM has assembled the best possible team to execute on our vision to serve enterprises with storage management expertise," said Alan Atkinson, who founded SysDM last year with Steve Laskowski, Mark Lonsdale and Jim McDonald. "Our team represents the most seasoned executives from successful technology businesses that are still strong today."

Atkinson, heading up SysDM in the CEO role, spent 5 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories working as a system administrator for the mainframe and Unix environments. He was responsible for tape backups. Alan joined Goldman Sachs in 1992. As an Information Technology Vice President, he founded the Storage and Capacity Management group and was responsible for the firm's storage infrastructure throughout the globe. In 2000, Alan left Goldman to join StorageNetworks (the first Storage Service provider) as VP of Engineering. During Alan's tenure at StorageNetworks, customers such as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Network Appliance trusted their backups to the company. After a successful Initial Public Offering and being promoted to SVP, Alan left StorageNetworks to co-found SysDM.

Steve Laskowski, VP of Worldwide Sales, spent 8 years at Intel in technical as well as sales/marketing management roles originally in California and then in New York. In 1992, Steve started up the Northeast Financial market for PDC/Delta Microsystems that was later sold to Legato Systems. In 1994, He then headed up the Financial Sales markets for Epoch Systems (a leader in hierarchical storage), which was sold to EMC. Steve was a founding member of EMC's open system storage sales team managing the enterprise account organization in New York City. In 1996, Steve joined Internet Security Systems pre-funding as one of the original employees (8th employee). After a successful Initial Public Offering and being promoted to Managing Director of Southeast Asia, Steve left Internet Security Systems to co-found SysDM

Jim MacDonald, CTO, while at the University of Edinburgh, where he received a BSC(Hons) in Computer Science, Jim was primary architect and systems administrator for one of the first public-access systems on the internet. Jim spent 5 years at Goldman Sachs where at various stages he held international responsibilities in the systems management, scheduling, and primary and secondary storage areas. Jim joined StorageNetworks in 2001 with the position of director and was responsible for global primary storage engineering and technical liaison with a number of key accounts. Jim left StorageNetworks in 2001 to work on a number of open source products, and in 2002 co-founded SysDM.

Mark Lonsdale, VP of Development, joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 working in the distributed computing environment. As part of the Application Support Group Mark developed a number of internal system management products as well as working with third party vendors to make there products ready for production deployment. After moving into the Storage Capacity and Management group Mark became responsible for the tape backup environment at Goldman Sachs. In 2000 Mark moved to StorageNetworks as Director of Engineering responsible for all the technical aspects around their STORBackup service. Since leaving StorageNetworks in March 2002 Mark has co-founded SysDM.

About SysDM

Based in New York and London, SysDM is a leading developer of innovative storage management solutions. The company was founded in 2001 by technology executives and software engineers from StorageNetworks, EMC, Goldman Sachs and Micromuse. Their vision is to bring application-centric performance management to the world of distributed computing. SysDM's patent-pending Cross-Domain Performance Correlation is an agent-less technology that analyzes information collected from both network and storage domains to provide IT teams with real-time backup reports describing what happened, what's happening now and what may happen. Gartner Group estimates the storage software market will grow to $16.7 billion in 2005.

SysDM, the SysDM logo, WysDM, and WysDM for Backups are trademarks of SysDM, Inc. All other trademarks in this press release are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2003, SysDM, Inc.

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