History 2004: Profile of Start-Up Sysdom

Company:
Sysdom

Founded in:
2001

Location:
New York, with offices in London, UK

Web:
sysdm.com (no more available)

CEO:
Alan Atkinson

Product:
Backup reporting software

Competitors include:
Bocada, CA, Legato and Veritas

Comments:
The company boasts reputable executives, including several veterans of EMC and the defunct StorageNetworks, such as its CEO, as well as Steve Lakowski, VP sales, Jim McDonald, CTO, and Mark Langsdale, VP product development. Their backup analysis software, WysDM, which starts at $9,000 for workgroups, $15,000 for enterprise, is based on its patent pending Cross-Domain Correlation, an agent-less technology that analyzes information collected from network, storage, system and application domains to provide real-time backup analysis describing what has happened, what’s currently happening and what may happen.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 196 on May 2004 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.