FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM INTRODUCES WYSDM FOR BACKUPS AND WYSDM FOR
FILESERVERS: DELIVERING DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT FOR
THE ENTERPRISE

Aerospace, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunication, and Service Provider Companies Rely on WysDM for Optimized Backup and Recovery Through Advanced Service Level Reporting and Analytics

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD ORLANDO, Fla.—Oct. 25, 2005—WysDM Software, Inc., a leading provider of innovative Data Protection Management (DPM) solutions, today announced WysDM for BackupsTM 3 and WysDM for FileserversTM 3. These two advanced solutions are the newest members of WysDM’s family of DPM software for the enterprise. WysDM’s adaptive architecture and patent-pending Cross-Domain CorrelationTM, combined with advanced service level reporting and predictive analytics ensure the health and state of critical backup and recovery environments.

“Schedule-based backup applications have added additional complexity to the point that many enterprises have dangerously poor insight, or control over their backup infrastructure, let alone the recovery of that data,” said Brad O’Neill, a senior analyst and consultant at the Taneja Group. “DPM solutions, when deployed with existing backup architectures, allows the IT manager to gain levels of visibility and command over their environment that just wasn’t possible until now.”

“Reporting is not enough,” said WysDM CEO Alan Atkinson. “Our competitors offer outdated platforms that can only report if a backup was completed or not, but DPM goes much further than that, understanding business policies as well as additional technical constraints, to ensure that  data is truly protected. WysDM moves far beyond reporting with its Predictive Analysis Engine, environment-wide Data Protection Management, and an architecture that adapts to any business requirement without customized programming. No other DPM product comes close to matching WysDM’s capabilities.”

Today’s backup environments are large and complex, and support some of the highest data throughput demands of any enterprise system. WysDM for Backups provides the global view to understand even the largest and most complex of backup environments. WysDM’s data protection intelligence platform obtains data from all major components of the network environment including servers, storage and applications and provides a comprehensive set of reports on all aspects of backup operations, from service level agreements to regulatory compliance to per-device performance.

WysDM enhances backup reliability by continually monitoring the environment for faulty configurations, inefficiencies and anomalies, and alerting to any of these conditions before they contribute to backup failure. WysDM’s analytic monitoring enables capacity planning, optimizes the backup environment, and ensures compliance by utilizing policies for retention periods and backup schedules. WysDM can report on compliance and issues compliance risk alerts.

WysDM for Backups 3 Offers Critical Business Advantages:

• Application level visibility. WysDM measures and manages at the application level to minimize exposure, allowing administrators to individualize recovery point objectives, time to recovery, chargeback and service levels.
• Supports a wide range of backup applications. WysDM for Backups integrates flawlessly with all major backup applications including EMC/Legato NetWorker, HP DataProtector, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec Veritas BackupExec and Symantec Veritas NetBackup.
• Supports non-traditional backup applications. WysDM for Backups supports non-traditional backup applications such as NetApp’s SnapVault and Oracle’s Recovery Manager to ensure full coverage of the data protection environment.  Additional backup applications and methods can be integrated into WysDM using their openly available XML API.
• Reduces risk. WysDM for Backups maps jobs to backup media, which greatly reduces risk and enforces storage protection policies. WysDM also tracks open files that were not backed up. 

Today’s fileservers are a key part of a company’s environment, but rapid growth and fast gains in their complexity and value have not been matched by increased operational visibility. WysDM for Fileservers provides the visibility required to understand even the largest and most complex of fileserving environments. Utilizing WysDM’s data protection management platform, WysDM for Fileservers obtains information from all NetApp filers and NearStores. This information allows WysDM for Fileservers to provide a comprehensive set of reports on all aspects of fileserver operation, from hardware configuration to per-process performance.

WysDM for Fileservers 3 offers vital benefits to business continuity:

• Reduced risk. Large environments often contain many unintended or unauthorized changes that can cause business interruption during times such as cluster failover. WysDM for Fileservers alleviates the risk of downtime by tracking configuration changes, providing full change reporting, and locating and alerting misconfigurations.
• Reduced costs. Administrators often deliberately under-utilize fileservers to provide space for growth. WysDM for Fileservers allows administrators to maximize fileserver capacity and reduce costs by accurately tracking current and predicted capacity eliminating the need to overprovision resources.
• Improved service levels.Fileservers have become increasingly complex and difficult to manage while growing more business-critical, and existing management tools cannot scale or provide the clarity of information required. WysDM for Fileservers allows customers to manage usage of volumes and qtrees, clusters, snapshots and more through clear reporting and predictive alerting.

Arsenal Digital Solutions is the leading provider of Storage Management Services (SMS). The company's comprehensive portfolio of fully-managed, on-demand solutions support the complex storage, data protection, business continuity, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance needs of over 1,000 businesses in 45 data centers in 30 cities worldwide.  “The costs and complexity of managing and protecting data continues to skyrocket,” said Sam Sigarto, chief operating officer of Arsenal Digital Solutions. “WysDM maximizes uptime and reduces exposure without breaking your IT budget.”

NEXL Network Systems is one of the fastest growing information technology providers in the U.S. “Networked application performance depends on meeting service levels,” said Dean Oliver, president and chief operations officer of NEXL. “With WysDM, our customers can effectively manage application service levels through clear reporting and predictive alerting. WysDM gives us and our customers all the information we need to optimize network standardization, efficiency and performance.”

WysDM Software Pricing and Availability

WysDM for Backups 3 and WysDM for Fileservers are available immediately from WysDM channel partners and integrators worldwide. Pricing begins at $15,000 based on 50 clients. For detailed information, contact WysDM at 212-228-1800 or visit www.wysdm.com.

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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