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Contact:WYSDM SOFTWARE CEO ALAN ATKINSON TO PARTICIPATE IN PANEL PRESENTATION ON PERSISTENT DATA AT STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD
NEW YORK —October 24, 2006—Alan Atkinson, CEO of WysDM Software, the leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, will join a panel presentation addressing a new class of data called persistent data at Storage Networking World taking place October 31 through November 3. The presentation will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, November 2 at the JW Marriott in Orlando, Florida in CORDOVA 3. WysDM will also demonstrate its intelligent data protection management solutions from booth C34 during the show’s exhibit hours.
Persistent data is defined as information that is captured or has aged to a point where it is infrequently changed or modified, but still needs to be retained for future reference or access.
The panel will be led by Brad O’Neill of the Taneja Group and will focus on the Persistent Data Storage Architecture (PDSA) approach developed by COPAN and the industry collaboration formed to manage this growing class of data. In addition to Atkinson, other participants in the session include representatives from FalconStor, Revivio, Seagate, Seven Ten Storage, and Symantec.
“The data protection environment encompasses the largest segment of persistent data, which is both critical and complex,” said Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM Software. “Efficient management of persistent data requires solutions that run in heterogeneous environments, provide predictive analysis, cost savings optimization, business policy enforcement and advanced reporting capabilities. WysDM’s DPM solution plays a role in PDSA by identifying inefficiencies in the data protection environment, eliminating risk to meet guaranteed service levels around recovery, and enabling cost savings.”
Storage Networking World (SNW) provides IT managers and storage professionals with a SNIA-endorsed education and a hands-on view of the world's only SNIA-sanctioned Solutions Center, as well as access to legions of peers, experts and technology solutions. For more information visit http://www.snwusa.com/.
About WysDM Software Solutions
The WysDM software suite of advanced backup management products provide the only true data protection management (DPM) offering that provides both comprehensive reports and advanced analysis. WysDM for Backups and WysDM for Fileservers provide a global view that enables users to understand even the largest and most complex environments. WysDM’s adaptive architecture, combined with advanced service level reporting and predictive analytics ensure the health and state of critical backup, recovery and fileserver environments.
WysDM will demonstrate its WysDM for Backups™ and WysDM for Fileservers™ software at booth #C34 at SNW Fall 2006.
About Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM
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 StorageNetworks, the first storage service provider. StorageNetworks’ customers included Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Network Appliance. Before StorageNetworks, 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.
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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