WYSDM AND DOUBLE-TAKE SOFTWARE SIGN OEM AGREEMENT

April 19, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
WysDM Software, Inc., the leading provider of advanced data protection management solutions, announced today that it has signed an OEM agreement with Double-Take Software, a leading provider of recoverability software including continuous data replication, application availability, and system state protection. Double-Take Software and WysDM will work together to improve the recovery management strategy based on predictive analysis, real-time data protection, and detailed reporting capabilities.

“We are thrilled to add Double-Take Software to our family of OEM partners,” said Alan Atkinson, CEO, WysDM Software. “Double-Take Software is a clear leader in software-based data protection technologies, and partnering with them is a synergistic win for customers who want to make better decisions about their data protection and recovery planning. We look forward to reaching new customers and significantly broadening our customer base through this OEM agreement with Double-Take Software.”

WysDM’s adaptive architecture and Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology, coupled with fine-grained service level reporting and predictive analytics, help ensure the health and state of critical backup and recovery environments. Double-Take Software enables more than 10,000 customers to protect and recover business-critical data that resides throughout their enterprises. A partnership between the two companies will enable organizations to more effectively and proactively manage their recovery planning process through the collection and analysis of data in real-time so they can make more informed decisions about their data protection strategies.

“Double-Take Software and WysDM offer complementary technologies and our common goal is to deliver unparalleled data protection to customers,” said Dean Goodermote, president and CEO of Double-Take Software. “This partnership will allow us to provide a powerful combination of capabilities to ensure a healthy and comprehensive data protection and recovery environment.”

WysDM’s customer base has increased by 30 percent since the end of fourth quarter 2006, and the OEM agreement with Double-Take Software promises to greatly expand WysDM’s footprint in a rapidly growing market.

About Double-Take Software
Headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, Double-Take® Software (Nasdaq: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable software for recoverability, including continuous data replication, application availability and system state protection. Double-Take Software products and services enable customers to protect and recover business-critical data and applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint in both physical and virtual environments. With its unparalleled partner programs, technical support, and professional services, Double-Take Software is the solution of choice for more than ten thousand customers worldwide, from SMEs to the Fortune 500. Information about Double-Take Software’s products and services can be found at www.doubletake.com.

About WysDM Software
WysDM is the industry’s first and only data protection management (DPM) supplier to offer detailed custom analysis of the entire data protection environment, providing the most comprehensive insight into past, present and future data protection reliability, performance and compliance. Founded in 2001 by a team of storage and software executives from Goldman Sachs, Micromuse, and StorageNetworks, the company has established significant traction on the customer, partner and technology fronts. Its flagship product, WysDM for Backups™, uses the company’s patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology to enable system administrators and IT teams to analyze information collected from network, storage, system, and application domains to provide the most comprehensive real-time backup analysis available. For more information, visit www.wysdm.com.
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