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SysDM ® Ships WysDM for Backups ™ Version 2.3

Continues to Expand Library of Storage Backup Platforms

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD – October 27, 2004 – Orlando – SysDM ®, Inc., a leading developer of innovative backup reporting and analysis solutions, today announced it is shipping version 2.3 of its market-leading WysDM for Backups ™ software technology. The announcement was made at Storage Networking World Fall 2004, being held here this week at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes Resort.

With version 2.3, SysDM continues to expand its support for storage management platforms and libraries from leading vendors IBM, Legato, Network Appliance, StorageTek and Veritas. These enhancements include:

• Expanded support for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager-specific functions including restore information.
• Visibility into NetApp SnapMirror configuration, status and performance.
• CIM support.
• Support for StorageTek tape libraries as well as drive configuration and status.
• Reporting and Auditing for Regulatory Compliance, including Sarbanes-Oxley, 17a-4, etc.
• Support for the Veritas BackupExec platform including restore information .
  

“Successful backups are critical for today’s large enterprises,” said David Hill, founder and CEO of the Mesabi Group . “By monitoring all of the elements underlying the storage environment, WysDM for Backups helps customers quickly ascertain the performance and success of large-scale backups. The ability to provide a consolidated view with WysDM’s cross-domain correlation feature helps pinpoint problems and plan ahead, saving money in both the short and long term.”

“Our customers’ enterprises are typically comprised of diverse backup environments,” said Alan Atkinson, co-founder and CEO of SysDM.  “Our intent is to continue to respond to our customers’ needs by focusing not only on increased functionality and performance, but by expanding our library of supported backup environments.”   

Other enhancements in WysDM for Backups version 2.3 include:

• Additional reports and analysis capabilities, including advanced SLA reporting.
• Higher level job statistics.
• Ability to publish dashboards, including the ability to send screen reports to other WysDM users.
• Integration with customer’s LDAP system.
• IBM AIX support.
• Dynamic menus, which update menu selections according to what backup data is available.

About WysDM for Backups

With WysDM for Backups, enterprises are able to meet their service agreements, backup within prescribed time windows, and ensure their data is backed up and able to be restored – alleviating significant business risks.  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.  WysDM for Backups consolidates performance information and utilization information from all these assets, highlighting bottlenecks.

Cross-Domain Correlation ™
WysDM for Backups implements SysDM’s patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation technology. This innovative, agent-less technology analyzes information collected from network, storage, systems and application domains to provide IT teams with real-time backup analysis describing what happened, what’s happening now and what may happen.
 
The Cross-Domain Correlation functionality enables backup administrators to pinpoint the true cause of infrastructure failures and performance bottlenecks before they impact the business. Because WysDM for Backups actively collects data (rather than solely reacting to events), it is able to interpret trending information from its historical data mine.

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.

About SysDM
Based in New York and London, SysDM is a leading developer of innovative backup analysis solutions. The company was founded in 2001 by technology executives and software engineers from EMC, Goldman Sachs and StorageNetworks.  Their vision is to bring application-centric performance management to the world of distributed computing. SysDM’s patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation analyzes information collected from network, storage, system and application domains to provide IT teams with real-time backup analysis describing what happened, what’s happening now and what may happen . .

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 © 2004, SysDM, Inc.   

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