Kashya Earns 'Excellent' Rating for Data Protection from Leading IT Publication; eWEEK Review Says KBX5000 'Enables Continuous Protection and Fast Recovery'

Business Wire, Nov 14, 2005

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Kashya, the leading supplier of data protection solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity, received an "excellent" designation in the Data Protection key performance indicator in an eWEEK Labs' review published in the magazine's November 7 issue. E[acute accent]In the article "Kashya KBX5000 moves beyond data replication," senior analyst Henry Baltazar summarizes that the addition of CDP capabilities to the KBX5000 differentiates the product from SAN-gateway solutions into the arena of continuous data protection, which allows IT managers to quickly roll back applications and minimize or eliminate system downtime. The full text of the article can be found online at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1881467,00.asp E[acute accent]"eWEEK Labs' tests show that the appliance enables continuous protection and fast recovery when IT managers must not only make sure data is replicated over long distances but also will be able to speedily re-launch applications and services at remote sites," wrote Baltazar. The review also praised the Kashya KBX5000 for giving IT managers more granular control over how applications are restored, as well as its ability to look at server activity and roll back storage volumes at the database row or transaction level rather than at the block level only. Integration with Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and Oracle Hot Backup API's were recognized by eWEEK as key features to enable clean server recoveries. E[acute accent]"We are pleased to have the KBX5000 recognized for its advanced data protection features through an independent review in a leading IT trade publication such as eWEEK," said Rick Walsworth, Kashya's vice president of marketing. "With the KBX5000, not only can administrators leverage Kashya's best-in-class replication capabilities, but users now have the power to instantly recover applications to transactionally consistent points in time. Across our growing installed base, Kashya users continue to demonstrate the value of the KBX5000 as a critical component of their enterprise data center infrastructure." E[acute accent]eWEEK magazine is a weekly publication that provides complete news analysis, product reviews and unbiased expert opinion that help guide IT decision-makers to the best choices for their companies, and helps them to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive business advantage. The publication, with a circulation of 205,000, covers the most critical issues, trends, people, platforms and technologies affecting business and important to enterprise-wide computing. It is available online at http://www.eweek.com.

E[acute accent]About Kashya

E[acute accent]Kashya leads the industry by reducing the cost and the complexity of data protection. Using unique technologies and an innovative approach, Kashya solutions cost-effectively solve many data protection challenges for organizations with heterogeneous server and storage infrastructures. The Kashya KBX5000 Data Protection Appliance provides best-in-class continuous remote replication (CRR) and continuous data protection (CDP) across any type of SAN environment, supporting high availability configurations with enterprise class scalability. Kashya solutions offer tremendous flexibility, including instantaneous restoration, dynamic policy-based replication, WAN compression and simple, yet powerful SAN management capabilities. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information, visit Kashya at http://www.kashya.com or call 1.866.KASHYA1.

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