WysDM Software Joins the SNIA to Drive Interoperability for Data Protection Management

Adams, chairman of the board of the SNIA. "We are seeing the adoption of FIX across multiple
asset classes start to take hold and are glad to become a formal member to
more actively contribute to the evolution of FIX.

Contact: Jessica Titlebaum
Capital Markets Consulting L.

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"WysDM's commitment to developing data protection management solutions
that adapt to existing networked storage environments is synergistic to SNIA's
mission to drive open standards to enable highly available, secure and trusted
solutions," said Wayne M.L.

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We look forward to working
within the SNIA's Data Management Forum (DMF) and other workgroups to continue
to develop technologies and best practices that benefit end users.wysdm. While doing that, they also keep in mind industry expectations
and standards.cmcplace .com

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As a participating member of the SNIA, WysDM will play an integral
role to facilitate and drive standards and interoperability for data
protection management within the newly emerging DPM market.

About Capital Markets Consulting
Founded in 1996, CMC provides trading related software products and
specializes in the design, development and deployment of revenue critical
software solutions for traders, clearing firms, risk managers, exchanges, and
ECNs.

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WysDM provides the industry's most comprehensive platform for delivering
the most advanced DPM solutions . The flagship product,
WysDM for Backups(TM), uses the company's patent-pending Cross- Domain
Correlation (TM) 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.
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It is one of the
most familiar protocols for electronic trading including; pre-trade
communications and trade execution.com
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WysDM's
dynamic analytic monitoring enables capacity planning, optimizes the backup
environment, and ensures compliance by utilizing policies for retention
periods and backup schedules. For additional information about CMC and its
products, access the CMC web site at http://www.782.

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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. CMC's Consulting Specialists combine extensive trading industry
knowledge with solid technical skills to provide solutions that address the
business needs of their clients.

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For more information, visit http://www. It's great that we can participate in the protocol
evolving process. The organization works to improve the global
trading process between participants by defining, managing and promoting an
open protocol .

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NEW YORK, WysDM Software, Inc. "Their
support and participation in driving the adoption of our data management and
protection initiatives will help SNIA deliver measured value to the IT
community .

Capital Markets Consulting Announces FIX Protocol Membership

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As a result, WysDM
for Backups enhances backup reliability by continually monitoring the
environment for misconfigurations, inefficiencies and anomalies, and alerting
to any of these conditions before they contribute to backup failure.

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The SNIA has
several key initiatives for 2006 including the SNIA Data Management Forum's
focus on Continuous Data Protection, Information Lifecycle Management , and
Long Term Archiving. It has
since become standard practice in the financial industry.

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About WysDM
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.

These groups offer up an outlet where
technical and business professionals can collaborate on their experiences and
plan industry-related events."
The FIX protocol was created in 1992 as a communications structure for
equity trading between Fidelity Investments and Salomon Brothers.

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SNIA
members share the common goal of advancing the adoption of storage networks as
complete and trusted solutions.

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For additional information,
visit the SNIA web site at http: //www.

NOTE: WysDM, the WysDM logo, WysDM for Backups, WysDM for Fileservers and
Cross -Domain Correlation are trademarks of WysDM Software, Inc. "We have been using FIX in our products since the
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To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed
to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage
networking solutions into the broader market.org .C.

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Since 1997, the SNIA's members have assisted the
development of solutions and standards for the storage networking industry. CHICAGO, Capital Markets Consulting (CMC) is proud
to announce their membership into the FIX Protocol Organization. Many of the
gateways and products CMC works with use the FIX Protocol including; CME,
eCBOT, LIFFE and Eurex gateways for both Market Data and Order Routing.

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"WysDM is dedicated to enabling users to optimize and
ensure the health and state of critical backup and recovery environments
without adding additional management complexity.

About SNIA
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit
global organization , made up of more than 460 member companies and close to
7,000 active individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. in the United
States and other countries.
"We also use FIX for our CBOT Order Direct Routing gateway as well as the
FIX Message Viewer and the FIX test tool," says Vice President of CMC's
Technology, Don Mendelson.
"CMC's software development consulting services include a wide range of
electronic trading systems and protocols; however our execution products all
incorporate the FIX protocol," John Barun, President and CEO of Capital
Markets Consulting said.

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, a leading
provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, today
announced that it has joined the Storage Networking Industry Association
(SNIA)."
"From inception, WysDM 's DPM products were designed to integrate
seamlessly with existing enterprise backup environments ," said Jim McDonald,
CTO of WysDM Software. WysDM's Cross Domain Correlation(TM) coupled
with its Predictive Analysis Engine gathers data from all major components of
the network environment including servers, storage, and applications and
carries out advanced analysis on all aspects of the data. All other company and product names mentioned are
the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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The FIX Protocol organization is broken down into committees,
subcommittees and working groups.