| Kashya enters data replication marketplace Kashya, a young company offering high performance, cost effective data protection solutions, has announced its entry into the enterprise data replication marketplace. Responding to the technical and commercial barriers to ‘out of region’ data replication, Kashya will soon be introducing its KBX4000, a new product for consistent system-wide disaster recovery across corporate data centres regardless of the geographical distances separating them. "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 Defence Forces. Subsequently, Lewin, Kedem and Heller, established a reputation within Israel's technology sector, as 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. The company's financial backers include Battery Ventures and Jerusalem Global Ventures.
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26th August 2003 • Region: Worldwide•Type:
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