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KASHYA ENTERS ENTERPRISE DATA PROTECTION MARKET: BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS TO LONG DISTANCE REPLICATION August 25, 2003 SAN JOSE, Calif. - August 25, 2003 - Kashya, an emerging leader in high-performance, cost-effective data protection solutions, today announced its entry into the enterprise data replication marketplace. Responding to the widely discussed technical and commercial barriers to "out of region" replication, Kashya will soon be introducing its KBX4000, a breakthrough product for consistent system-wide disaster recovery across corporate data centers regardless of the geographical distances s eparating them. Unlike conventional replication solutions that were originally designed to address replication needs within a local and homogeneous storage area network, Kashya's KBX4000 is uniquely designed to overcome the technical challenges and excessive cost burden enterprises face when seeking to replicate and recover data across remote locations and in multi-platform environments. Based on its innovative Kashya Data Protection Appliance™ architecture, Kashya's approach makes possible reliable and effective "out of region" data replication without the bandwidth costs, performance and management limitations inherent in mainstream solutions available today. "Corporate enterprises are facing severe commercial and regulatory pressure to guarantee their critical information is properly protected. Failure to do so means an unnecessary exposure to high risk which could ultimately cost millions of dollars," said Michael Lewin, CEO and co-Founder of Kashya. "A company's critical applications must operate at all times without interruption in the event of local data corruption or even a regional disaster. This requires a remote copy of critical data that is 100 percent consistent, fully up-to-date and always recoverable, yet without impacting critical business applications and day to day operations. Moreover, at a time when IT budgets are being squeezed to the extreme, these conditions must be met at a total cost that is affordable so that long distance replication becomes commercially viable. Kashya offers customers a single solution for heterogeneous platform environments, thus avoiding any "lock-in" to a specific vendor, while allowing administrators to dramatically simplify the configuration and management of their disaster recovery system." According to IDC, the data replication and backup software segment targeted by Kashya accounts for almost two-thirds of the overall storage software market. IDC predicts that backup and replication software alone will present an almost $5.8 billion opportunity by 2006. Kashya was founded by Lewin and two partners, Vice President of Engineering Ziv Kedem and Chief Technology Officer Yair Heller, who have worked together for many years, having originally met when all three worked in an elite technology unit in the Israeli Defense Forces. Subsequently, Lewin, Kedem and Heller, established a reputation within Israel's technology sector, as leading experts in the application of sophisticated algorithmic techniques to complex storage, communication and security problems. Prior to founding Kashya, the threesome managed a technology consulting business whose customers included leading international companies. Kashya's management team also includes senior executives recruited from IBM's Storage Group and Zambeel. The company's financial backers include Battery Ventures and Jerusalem Global Ventures. About Kashya Kashya was founded to deliver enterprise-class data protection solutions. Using unique technologies and a whole new approach, the Kashya Data Protection Appliance™ enables the highest levels of data protection, addressing the problem of heterogeneous and long-distance business continuity. Kashya's technology was designed for unparalleled flexibility, efficient use of bandwidth, dynamic policy-based replication, and enterprise-class scalability and availability. Kashya has operations in San Jose, Calif. and Ramat Gan, Israel. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.kashya.com. Kashya and the Kashya Data Protection Appliance are trademarks of Kashya Inc. All other product names referenced in this document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged. |
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