Kashya Backup Appliance Goes The Distance
Published for the Week Of September 6, 2004
In Aramaic, a kashya is a riddle, and ancient Talmudic scholars applied logic to solve these puzzles and arrive at a “terutz.”
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As storage consultant Michael Lewin saw it, the industry’s biggest kashya was cost-effectively protecting and replicating data, particularly over long distances. His terutz: the KBX 4000, an appliance for bi-directional data replication using IP protocols and Fibre Channel connectivity.
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“The need is there because businesses of all sizes have to protect and back up their data,” said Lewin, who two years ago founded Kashya, San Jose, Calif., appointed himself CEO and launched his product in March 2003.
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“We’re extending this market beyond the Fortune 500 to the Fortune 5000,” Lewin said. “In the past, the cost for these types of solutions was prohibitive.”
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Lewin said the appliance is platform-independent, works with any SAN or server and can take as many as a thousand snapshots a day, based on user-defined policies. And data recovery and failover support can be accomplished over distances of more than 2,000 miles.
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“We have been looking for affordable and flexible data replication solutions,” said George Crump, vice president of technology sales at Sanz, a Kashya partner in Englewood, Colo. “The KBX 4000 delivers amazing value to our customers.”
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Kashya currently works with more than 20 solution partners and is recruiting more, said Mehran Hadipour, vice president of marketing. He said the channel is critical in storage because of the complexity of systems and the need for service. But the company is being selective. “You have to make sure they are providing quality services and solutions along with the product,” Hadipour said.
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