¡¡¡¡DALLAS, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Storage Networking World -- WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of advanced data protection management (DPM) solutions, today announced WysDM 4, the latest release of its DPM software suite which includes major enhancements to its WysDM for Backups(TM) and WysDM for Fileservers(TM) products. The company also added a new product to its solution suite, WysDM for Disks, which brings WysDM''s market-leading DPM functionality to disk arrays. Throughout the new WysDM 4 platform, the company has added significant advances in compliance and risk mitigation, security, and capacity planning to provide businesses with a full picture of their data protection risk while reducing the time to provision storage and enhancing overall storage utilization.

    Large enterprise customers across 26 countries in financial services, pharmaceutical and telecommunications are seeing significant benefits with WysDM''s DPM offering. BT (formerly British Telecom) is one of the world''s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries.

    "Using WysDM we''ve obtained record levels of backup success over thousands of servers and hundreds of terabytes of data every day," said Mike Jones, storage and business continuity business manager, BT. "The new features in WysDM 4 will enable us to move to an even higher level of operational efficiency."

    WysDM 4 includes a comprehensive set of new features to deliver reports that meet the requirements for compliance regulations as well as best practices to ensure that audits against such regulations are successful. WysDM for Backups also provides a number of reports and analyses that give data protection administrators visibility into the effectiveness of their data protection environment, including alerts whenever a system has not been successfully backed up and end-of-month reports that expose key compliance metrics to managers and auditors.

    "The DPRM (data protection and recovery management) market is expanding as companies recognize the growing strategic importance of ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery," said Laura DuBois, research director for IDC''s Storage Software group. "Couple that with the need for increased operational efficiency, reduced costs, and improved reliability and performance, and you''ve got an environment ripe with potential for solution providers such as WysDM."

    Additional new features in the WysDM 4 product suite include: * WysDM for Disks -- this new product joins the WysDM DPM suite to provide configuration and status information for disk arrays, allowing storage administrators to manage utilization metrics, balance LUN allocations across array ports, and ensure fan-out ratios do not exceed vendors'' specifications. * Provisioning and capacity planning for fileservers -- this reduces the time to provision storage from existing pools and significantly enhances storage utilization figures. * Unparalleled performance, scalability and security -- leveraging experience with large enterprises with thousands of servers, the company has architected WysDM 4 to deliver maximum performance and security for even the largest data protection environments in the world. * Support for an unparalleled range of data protection applications -- WysDM has added new support for data protection applications including CommVault Galaxy, Symantec PureDisk and CA ARCserve.

    To simplify the user experience, WysDM 4 also features a wizard-based approach for faster configuration, setup, and data collection. Additionally, the product increases overall performance in three major ways: by moving report processing from the GUI to the server, where there are more resources; by reducing the amount of data sent across the network; and by reducing the work needed to investigate common backup failures.

    "We developed the new features in WysDM 4 in direct response to customer demand for various enhancements that would enable them to excel at compliance and risk mitigation while reducing their workload and minimizing their security concerns," explained Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM. "The enhancements we''ve implemented also deliver significant gains in performance, solidifying WysDM as the leader and innovator in data protection management."

    About the WysDM Data Protection Management (DPM) Software Suite

    WysDM''s DPM solutions feature business policy enforcement for meeting service-level agreements, regulatory compliance, and internal best practices requirements. The WysDM 4 suite of products includes:

    * WysDM for Backups, WysDM''s flagship product, uses a patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation(TM) technology to analyze information collected from all major components of the data protection environment, including servers, storage, networks, and applications. WysDM''s Predictive Analysis Engine (PAE) integrates with existing infrastructure tools to provide automatic notification of performance problems, service-level agreement (SLA) violations, poorly optimized environments, risks associated with recovery time objectives, and more. The PAE''s unique ability allows the system to detect very subtle problems and inefficiencies, resulting in significant risk reduction and cost savings. * The new WysDM for Disks, utilizes WysDM''s DPM technology to provide configuration and status information for disk arrays, allowing storage administrators to manage utilization metrics, balance LUN allocations across array ports, and ensure fan-out ratios do not exceed vendors'' specifications. * WysDM for Fileservers provides the visibility required to understand large and complex fileserving environments. Utilizing the WysDM? adaptive architecture, WysDM for Fileservers provides comprehensive reporting and analysis on all aspects of fileserver operations, including hardware configuration, virtualization, snapshot management, and performance.

    About WysDM

    WysDM is the industry''s leading provider of data protection management (DPM) solutions which deliver a complete picture of data protection risk while reducing the time to provision storage and enhancing overall storage utilization. Headquartered in New York, WysDM was founded in 2001 by a team of storage and software executives from Goldman Sachs, Micromuse, and StorageNetworks. The company''s flagship product, WysDM for Backups(TM), pairs cross-domain correlation and a predictive analysis engine with an adaptive architecture for complete awareness of business policies, including compliance, risk mitigation, security and capacity planning. For more information, visit www.wysdm.com.

    WysDM and the WysDM logo are registered trademarks, and WysDM for Backups, WysDM for Fileservers, and Cross-Domain Correlation are trademarks of WysDM Software, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

    Source: WysDM Software, Inc.
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