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Trainer CommunicationsWYSDM WINS BACKUP REPORTING SHOOT-OUT AT STORAGE DECISIONS TRADE SHOW
WysDM Receives Highest Overall Rating
NEW YORK, NY—Nov. 22, 2005—WysDM Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, today announced that an audience of IT users at the Storage Decisions show in Las Vegas, selected WysDM as the winner of the Backup Reporting Shoot-out conducted by Diogenes Analytical Laboratories, Inc. There were two featured shoot-out competitors: Tavata TESM, and WysDM. The shoot-out was not sponsored, commissioned or funded by any vendor. A copy of the results may be accessed at http://www.diogeneslab.com/.
Testing Environment
Prior to the shoot-out, Diogenes tested each of the products. The testing environment included two Windows 2003 Servers running Symantec/Veritas Netbackup 5.2. The first server held a Fibre Channel connection to a tape library through a Brocade switch, and the second server hosted a SCSI-attached tape library. The test environment also included three Windows 2003 Servers clients.
The test protocol included running full backups every 4 hours and incremental backups every hour. Each product ran for 5-7 days while Diogenes tested random restores of various files and report generation/evaluation. The lab tested a variety of characteristics including ease of installation, usability, functionality, problem resolution, and support. It also tested critical functionality including:
IT Users Select WysDM as Winner of Backup Reporting Shoot-out
On November 10, 2005 at the Storage Decisions conference in Las Vegas, Diogenes presented an overview of the backup and recovery reporting tool market, important evaluation criteria, and the results of its Backup Reporting Shoot-out to an audience of IT users, and then polled the audience for their responses to the following seven questions based on the presentation. The poll was not scientifically generated, and did not factor the audience's prior experience or knowledge. The results from this straw poll were as follows:
WysDM for Critical Backup and Recovery Environments
WysDM's adaptive architecture and patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology, combined with advanced service level reporting and predictive analytics, ensure the health and state of critical backup and recovery environments. WysDM for Backups provides a global view that enables users to understand even the largest and most complex of backup environments. WysDM for Fileservers standardizes file servers by keeping detailed logs of key configuration parameters and tracking all changes.
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 BackupsTM uses the company’s patent-pending Cross-Domain CorrelationTM 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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