FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM TO SHOWCASE SOLUTIONS FOR REAL-TIME BACKUP AND
RECOVERY ANALYSIS AT STORAGE DECISIONS 2006

NEW YORK—September 19, 2006—WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, announced today it will demonstrate its WysDM for Backups™ and WysDM for Fileservers™ products at Storage Decisions in New York, September 27-29, at the Hilton New York in the Emerging Technology Showcase. WysDM CEO Alan Atkinson will deliver a presentation on WysDM’s DPM technology on Thursday, September 28 at 3:00 p.m.

The only true DPM solution that provides both comprehensive reports and advanced analysis, WysDM for Backups provides a global view that enables users to understand even the largest and most complex backup and recovery environments.

WysDM for Fileservers provides the visibility required to understand large and complex fileserving environments. Utilizing the WysDM® adaptive architecture, WysDM for Fileservers provides comprehensive reporting and analysis on all aspects of fileserver operations, including hardware configuration, virtualization, snapshot management, and performance.

Both WysDM for Backups and WysDM for Fileservers feature business policy enforcement for meeting service-level agreements, regulatory compliance, and internal best practices requirements.

WysDM DPM solutions use a patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology to analyze information collected from all major components of the data protection environment, including servers, storage, networks, and applications. The solutions’ adaptive architecture, combined with advanced service-level reporting and predictive analytics, ensures the health and state of critical backup, recovery and fileserver environments.

“Storage Decisions attracts storage professionals who are serious about effectively managing their entire data protection environment and enforcing best practices across the organization,” said Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM Software. “We look forward to demonstrating our industry-leading DPM capabilities and real-world examples of how we address customers’ data protection challenges.”

September’s Storage Decisions conference gathers dozens of independent storage experts leading discussions around the theme, Scale Storage, Manage Costs: Cost-Conscious Growth in a Deluge of Data. For more information about the conference, visit http://storagedecisions.techtarget.com/newyork/index.html .

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. Both 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.

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 Storage Networks, the first storage service provider. Storage Networks' customers included Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Network Appliance. Before Storage Networks, 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.

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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