FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM TO SHOWCASE DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS AT STORAGE EXPO 2006

NEW YORK —October 11, 2006—WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today that it will showcase its WysDM for Backups™ and WysDM for Fileservers™ products at Storage Expo on October 18 and 19, at the National Hall (booth #270), Olympia in London. In addition, Jim McDonald, CTO of WysDM, will participate in a “shootout” on October 19, featuring several storage technology companies, each competing for a winning slot at the end of the session.

The shootout, titled “Deal or No Deal,” will bring together representatives from seven companies – including Promise Technology, Iron Mountain, Expand Networks, ZANTAZ, StoreAge Networking Technologies, Texas Memory Systems and WysDM – to make a short presentation to a panel of leading industry experts. Representatives will discuss why their product is superior to the rest, followed by a no-holds-barred inquisition from the panel to assess the best product. At the end of the session, the panel will decide on a winner. Panelists include Jon Collins, principal analyst for Macehiter Ward-Dutton; Chris Howard, vice president and service director, Application Platform Strategies, Burton Group; and Dale Nix, managing director, Chapman Nix.

“We look forward to demonstrating our data protection management solutions at what has become the major storage-focused event for the EMEA region,” said Jim McDonald, CTO, WysDM. “Our expanding channel of global distribution partners and the increasing demand we’re seeing for WysDM’s solutions demonstrates that DPM technology is gaining traction all over the world. It is further proof that enterprise companies have a real need for greater visibility into their data protection environments so they can determine where failures are taking place or where bottlenecks are likely to occur – factors that are playing a greater role in establishing best practices across the organization for regulatory and business continuity purposes.”

About WysDM
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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