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SYSDM INTRODUCES "WYSDM
FOR BACKUPS" SOLUTION
Patent-pending software
technology pinpoints trouble spots
in complex, distributed IT storage infrastructures
September
8, 2003 - NEW YORK - SysDM, Inc., a leading developer of innovative storage
management solutions, today announced initial customer shipments of its WysDM
for Backups software solution. With WysDM for Backups, enterprises are able to meet
their service agreements, backup within prescribed time windows, and ensure
their data is backed up - alleviating the significant business risks of
bottlenecks and delays.
WysDM for Backups implements SysDM's patent-pending Cross-Domain Performance Correlation technology. This innovative, agent-less technology analyzes information collected from both network and storage domains to provide IT teams with real-time backup reports describing what happened, what's happening now and what may happen.
"Backup problems can have a damaging
impact on enterprises, putting the entire organization at risk," said Alan
Atkinson, CEO and co-founder of SysDM. "The
interdependencies among technologies make it exceedingly difficult to find the
causes underlying application failures and performance bottlenecks. We designed WysDM for Backups from the ground
up to enable reliable backups."
WysDM for Backups gathers and correlates performance and configuration information from enterprise-wide elements. These elements can include backup servers and software, tape libraries and drives, storage applications, servers, network devices, and storage arrays. SysDM for Backups consolidates performance information and utilization rates from all these assets, highlighting bottlenecks.
This
Cross-Domain Performance Correlation functionality enables backup
administrators to pinpoint the true cause of infrastructure failures and
performance bottlenecks before they impact the business of performing backups. Because WysDM for Backups actively collects
data (rather than react to events), it is able to interpret trending
information from its historical data mine.
Agents
aren't required to make WysDM work. Indeed,
most WysDM for Backups technology is agent-less. The WysDM for Backups modules are
preconfigured to access information from a variety of devices, including Legato
Networker software, Veritas NetBackup software, Quantum tape drives and
libraries, Storage arrays, Fibre Channel and IP switches, and Linux, Solaris
and Windows servers.
WysDM
for Backups is designed modularly, so it can expand as your organization's
needs grow. The key module is the WysDM Predictive
Analysis Engine (PAE). The PAE provides
automatic, out-of-the-box system, application and correlation analysis. It continually scans the data, searching for
performance issues and patterns. The PAE
alerts operations staff before problems become backup failures or performance bottlenecks. The PAE is able to reach conclusion on, for
example, when the file system is full or filling up, when a tape drive is low
or faults, and when a backup isn't running properly.
The
WysDM Reporter module provides more than 150 reports are provided out of the
box, including Top 10 slowest clients, media utilization, most common errors,
and SLA reports.
WysDM for Backups installs in hours, returning its value
immediately, as opposed to traditional solutions that take days, weeks or even
months. No installation is
required on backup servers, and the application integrates with existing IT tools
via XML APIs. WysDM for Backups runs
under Solaris, Linux or Windows. Screen
shots and customer references are available upon request.
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SysDM, the SysDM logo, WysDM, and WysDM for Backups are trademarks of SysDM, Inc. All other trademarks in this press release are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2003, SysDM, Inc.
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