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KASHYA DATA PROTECTION SOLUTION HEADS TO SilkWorm FABRIC

Kashya Inc announced recently that Kashya intelligent data protection technology will be developed for the Brocade SilkWorm Fabric Application Platform, delivering superior data protection across any distance for heterogeneous storage and server environments, and enabling significant improvements in data integrity, cost efficiency, and performance for data protection of enterprise corporate data.

"This agreement delivers on Kashya's vision for the future of networked-based intelligent data protection, where intelligence is moved to the network to enable an order of magnitude improvement in the reliability, cost and performance of data protection for the entire enterprise. We are pleased to work with Brocade, which is providing an ideal platform to optimize our applications in the fabric," Said Michael Lewin, CEO of Kashya Inc.

Based on the "Kashya Data Protection Platform," the powerful network-based Kashya Data Protection Solution addresses the need for high performance, reliability and cost-effective disaster recovery across remote locations with no distance limitation and without impacting business applications.

"Brocade is pleased to work with partners like Kashya as they port their fabric-based applications to our Fabric Application Platform," said Dave Stevens, Director of Business Development, Brocade Fabric Applications Division. "Fabric-based applications such as data protection, data replication, and volume management will be interoperable with the existing install base of over 2.5 million switches worldwide, protecting customer technology investments."