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SysDM^® Announces WysDM for Backups™ Version 2.1

 Application Enhancements Extend SysDM’s Technology Leadership
in Backup Reporting and Analysis

July 27, 2004 – New York – SysDM^®, Inc., a leading developer of innovative backup reporting and analysis solutions, today announced version 2.1 of its market-leading WysDM for Backups™ software technology. The enhanced version provides significant improvements in the areas of reporting and data collection, including dozens of sophisticated new reports and increased reporting flexibility. The application’s reporting capabilities now include enhanced support for tape drive and tape library information and support for complex conditions and custom rule sets.

With version 2.1, WysDM for Backups expands its portfolio of supported backup applications – which already includes Veritas NetBackup and Legato Networker – with the addition of IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). WysDM for Backups v2.1 also adds support for Network Appliance filers using data collection from both NetApp ManageOntap and SNMP. In addition, v2.1 runs under Sun Microsystems Solaris 9, Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise operating systems and now supports Hewlett-Packard’s HP/UX servers.

"Our WysDM deployment has enabled us to monitor proactively our backup infrastructure and promptly resolve any potential issues before they become problems," said Jonathan Zhukovsky, Chief Technology Officer at Highbridge Capital Management, LLC.

“The enhancements to WysDM for Backups are based on our customers’ feedback and their evolving requirements,” said Alan Atkinson, co-founder and CEO of SysDM.  “Our intent is to continue to expand the universe of domains for which we provide cross-correlation and to continue to improve the reporting functionality and flexibility of the application.”    

With version 2.1, the WysDM Reporter module provides more than 250 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. New reports provided in version 2.1 include:

• End-to-end throughput reports
• Audit reports
• Job reports and summaries
• Correlation reports
• User-based reports
• Backup reports, including deduplicated job reports , backup success rates , and success rate vs. SLAs
• Scheduling reports, including candle charts , point-in-time bar charts , and charge-back reports (by duration, size).

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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