Kashya and Unisys to Partner on Disaster Recovery and Clustering for Microsoft Windows Servers

Business Wire, April 18, 2005

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Kashya Inc., the leading supplier of data replication appliances for disaster recovery, today announced Kashya's intelligent data replication technology will be offered by Unisys as part of an integrated solution for disaster recovery and highly available clustering for Microsoft Windows servers.

Unisys offers an advanced data replication and cross-site high availability cluster solution that takes advantage of the Kashya KBX5000 Data Replication Appliance. The Kashya appliance provides superior data protection for heterogeneous storage environments, enabling significant improvements in data protection, data integrity, cost efficiency, and high availability for critical applications. By integrating the technology with Microsoft Cluster Service, the Unisys solution will support automated application failover and recovery over standard IP networks using minimum bandwidth between data centers thousands of miles apart.

"Kashya is pleased to be working with Unisys to design and deliver state-of-the-art, highly available Windows environments with enterprise-class reliability, availability and performance, and now with automated recovery across data centers that are thousands of miles apart," said Michael Lewin, Kashya's CEO. "Our mutual customers will be able to deploy replication or clustering solutions across heterogeneous storage platforms, and to replicate their data over an extended distance at a reasonable cost. This solution takes advantage of a customers' Storage Area Network (SAN), and brings a new level of availability and recoverability using standard IP networks between clustered servers in customers' existing data centers, no matter how far apart they are."

"By taking advantage of Kashya's industry-leading replication engine, Unisys is addressing customer requirements for a Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance (DR/BC) solution that ensures virtually uninterrupted application service in spite of a site disaster," said John Keller, Senior Director, Enterprise Server Marketing, Unisys. "In the past, they were required to make a trade-off between recovery and distance, between functionality and affordability. With this partnership and solution, we are bringing next generation business continuance capabilities to the market that complement our current offerings in the area of highly available Windows infrastructure."

About Kashya

Kashya reduces the cost and the complexity of deploying disaster recovery solutions. Using unique technologies and a whole new approach, the Kashya solution optimizes financial returns for companies that require remote replication for multi-vendor server and storage infrastructure. The Kashya Data Replication Appliance(TM) is easier to deploy and simpler to manage for any sized environment. The solution offers tremendous flexibility including dynamic policy-based replication, end-to-end management capabilities, enterprise-class scalability and the ability to support multiple, heterogeneous systems. The company is privately owned and headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit us at www.kashya.com.

About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Unisys combines expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.