FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM CEO ALAN ATKINSON TO ADDRESS MANAGEMENT OF UTILITY COMPUTING AT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT WORLD

NEW YORK, NY — Sep 5, 2006 —Alan Atkinson, CEO of WysDM Software, the leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, will deliver a presentation on “Managing Utility Computing: Promise and Problems” at the Infrastructure Management World conference on September 13, 4-4:30 p.m. in Scottsdale, Arizona. Atkinson’s presentation will address the promised benefits of utility computing, such as better flexibility, increased operational efficiency and lower management costs, as well as the challenges associated with shared infrastructure.

Utility computing requires an entirely new level of management software that understands deviations from normal behavior, the ability to provide chargebacks and enforce service level agreements, and predictive trending that can find problems before they occur. Without this functionality, the promise of utility computing will be difficult to fulfill.

Conference attendees are invited to Atkinson’s presentation, as well as visit the WysDM booth #G1 to learn more.

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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