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EQUANT SELECTS
SYSDM® BACKUP ANALYSIS SOLUTION
WysDM for Backups™
Application Enables World's Most Extensive Data Network
to Discover Problems Before They Impact Storage Backups
Equant (NYSE:
ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU) is an industry leader in global communications
services for multinational businesses.
Data backup
is a mission-critical component of Equant's day-to-day business. The company runs the world's most extensive data network in support of its various
data services, serving more than 800 businesses in more than 140 countries. With
WysDM for Backups, Equant is able to meet it 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 is like a team of
24x7 storage experts watching my backups," said Doug Bovie,
Equant's IT Project Manager, Systems Integration and Engineering Group. "With WysDM for Backups, SysDM enables us to
offer a higher quality of service to our customers and improves our reporting
capability while lowering our total cost of
ownership and increasing our cost savings from capital expenditures."
WysDM for Backups patent-pending Cross-Domain
Correlation™ capability enables Equant to consolidate performance and
configuration information across its backup servers and software, tape
libraries and drives, networks, client devices and storage arrays. This enables Bovie's team to uncover the true
causes behind infrastructure failures and performance problems.
"A global leader with a business on the scale of Equant requires smooth, uninterrupted backups on a consistent basis," said Alan Atkinson, founder and CEO of SysDM. "We are pleased that WysDM for Backups was able to provide this solution for Equant and are looking forward to working with Doug and his team as they expand and optimize the efficiency of Equant's backup business."
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.
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 Equant
Equant (NYSE:
ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU) is a recognized industry leader in global
communications services for multinational businesses. Equant combines its
network expertise - with its unmatched seamless network reach in 220 countries
and territories and local support in more than 165 countries - and extended
services capabilities to provide global, integrated and customized
communication services to enable its customers' key business processes. Equant
serves thousands of the world's top companies, with the industry's most
extensive portfolio of communications services and network solutions, including
the market-leading IP VPN used by nearly 1 000 global businesses today. Equant,
a subsidiary of France Telecom, was named Best Global Carrier 2003 and Best
Managed Service 2003 at the World Communication Awards and consistently leads
industry surveys in corporate user satisfaction.
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SysDM®
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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 © 2004, SysDM, Inc.
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