American Institute of Physics Selects Kashya to Protect Scientific and Scholarly Data for the World Community.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- After many years of researching data protection options to ensure that the scientific community around the globe will never skip a beat with respect to finding and accessing the right information, the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a scientific industry service provider, has found the right solution to remotely and safely replicate critical information in the event of a data disaster: Kashya's KBX4000 Data Protection Appliance.

"Making sure that our large community of researchers, scientists, engineers and teachers always have the data to get their work done is of paramount importance to us; we view it as our commitment and our obligation," said Bill Filaski, head of AIP's IT organization. "We looked at many options to protect our data and to ensure its 24x7 availability to our users. The KBX4000 not only gives us the protection that we need, with guaranteed data consistency, fast failover and failback capability, but it does it in a flexible and seamless manner, which is not an easy thing with our heterogeneous IT infrastructure. Kashya has exceeded our every expectation."

Data protection has been a major focus at AIP. Its online services, which are based on the Scitation(sm) hosting platform and include over 120 publications from 19 scientific societies, demand 24x7 availability. Among these services are the "Virtual Journals," best-of-breed electronic scientific publications that compile discipline-specific information from a wide variety of publishers, giving users a single source for information on a scientific subject.

To meet this challenge, AIP's data centers include a disaster recovery site located 25 miles from the main facility. With an infrastructure that consists of heterogeneous servers, heterogeneous storage and a wide range of online services, AIP needed a data protection solution that would deliver data replication that was server- and storage-independent. In addition, since its databases reside on multiple servers, a solution that could guarantee data consistency was paramount. And of critical importance to AIP, since it had no tolerance for disruption and no budget for changes to the existing infrastructure, the solution had to seamlessly adapt to AIP's organization.

"Literally every second of every day, a scientist, engineer, scholar, teacher or student somewhere around the world depends on information to get their work done, and AIP brings it to their fingertips," said Michael Lewin, CEO of Kashya. "This is the global 24x7 demand that our intelligent data protection appliance is uniquely able to satisfy, cost effectively and with no disruption to the existing infrastructure."

Developed from the ground up with a completely new approach, Kashya's KBX4000 delivers superior data protection at a fraction of the total cost of existing solutions. Kashya's replication architecture relies on continuous small-aperture snapshots (typically seconds apart) that minimize or eliminate the risk of data loss due to data corruption, disaster or system failures. Kashya's KBX4000 connects easily to the network infrastructure and provides bi-directional replication across any distance, offering a full spectrum of replication technologies from synchronous to asynchronous and allowing restores from any point in time.

About AIP

The American Institute of Physics (www.aip.org) is a not-for-profit corporation chartered in 1931 to provide publishing and distribution services for scientific and technical societies. AIP is the publisher or co-publisher of 11 publications, three magazines and the AIP Conference Proceedings series, many of which have the highest impact factors in their categories. AIP's online publishing platform, Scitation(sm), currently hosts over 1.5 million articles from over 120 scholarly publications for 19 learned society publishers, in fields including physics, chemistry, geology, engineering, acoustics and other sciences.

About Kashya

Kashya addresses the problem of high-performance and cost-effective business continuity and data protection capabilities by delivering an innovative solution using unique technologies and a whole new approach. The Kashya Data Protection Appliance platform provides high performance business continuity and data protection across multiple locations with no distance limitations, at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions. 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 has operations in San Jose, Calif. and Ramat Gan, Israel. For more information, visit the company's website at www.kashya.com.

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