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SYSDM™ SHIPS WYSDM
FOR BACKUPS™, VERSION 1.1
Patent-pending backup
analysis software technology pinpoints trouble spots
in complex, distributed IT storage infrastructures
WysDM for Backups implements SysDM's patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation technology. This innovative, agent-less technology 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.
Version 1.1 includes planned enhancements
and new features based on feedback from existing customers of WysDM for Backups v1.0. These upgrades will enable IT managers to:
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Perform predictive trending and analysis with
sophisticated reports that extrapolate trends;
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Create backup "report cards" that provide service-level
performance summaries;
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Analyze the performance over time of their IP and storage-area
network [SAN] switches.
"Problems
with data backups tend to lie with distributed elements in the backup
infrastructure, such as the systems being backed up or network devices," said Doug Bovie, IT Project Manager, Systems & Engineering Group
for Equant, a recognized
industry leader in global data and IP services for multinational businesses. "WysDM for Backups
pinpoints these problems for us immediately. This significantly decreases
our mean time to recover [MTTR] and frees up our operations teams. It also provides us with assurance that we're
getting the most out of our existing infrastructure and media investment."
"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 and, more
importantly, reliable restores."
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.
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.
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.
Agentless Technology
Agents aren't required to make WysDM work. Indeed,
most WysDM for Backups technology is agentless. The WysDM for Backups
modules are preconfigured to access information from a variety of devices,
including Legato NetWorker software, Veritas NetBackup software, tape
drives and libraries, storage arrays, Fibre Channel
and IP switches, and Linux, Solaris and Windows systems.
WysDM Performance
Analysis Engine
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 determine, for example, when the
file system is full or filling up; when a business application is at risk from
chronic backup failure; when host performance becomes a bottleneck; and when a
backup isn't running properly.
WysDM Reporter
The WysDM
Reporter module provides more than 150 reports out of the box, including Top 10
slowest clients, media utilization, most common errors, and SLA reports. The wizard-driven Reporter module is fully
configurable using a drag-and-drop interface.
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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