Kashya Appoints Paul Zeiter Vice President of North American Sales; Industry Management Veteran to Expand Market Penetration for KBX5000.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Kashya, the leading supplier of data protection solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Paul Zeiter to the position of Vice President of North American Sales. Zeiter is responsible for the continued sales growth of the company's KBX5000 Data Protection Solutions and reports directly to Kashya CEO Michael Lewin.

Zeiter, with nearly two decades of storage technology sales experience, joins Kashya from Quantum where he served as that company's director of Americas channel sales, with responsibility for driving branded sales and increasing market penetration opportunities and revenue through Quantum's channel partners in the United States, Canada and Latin America.

At Quantum, Zeiter played a key role in the launch of a unified sales channel strategy and program that provides channel partners the opportunity to offer Quantum's full data protection product line, including tape and disk-based products for backup, archiving and recovery, resulting in significant revenue growth.

"We are excited to have Paul join the Kashya team to help us further maximize sales opportunities for the KBX5000 throughout North America," said Lewin. "His knowledge of the channel and track record of success in delivering and growing sales of storage technologies makes him an ideal person to head our North American sales team."

"I am thrilled to join the Kashya team to focus on continued sales growth and to expand the network of channel partners," said Zeiter. "Data protection is a critical element of any enterprise strategy and the KBX5000 is the only solution to integrate best-in-class CDP and remote replication, which is one of my many motivations for joining Kashya."

Prior to working at Quantum, Zeiter held senior roles in sales, corporate marketing, sales management and integrated division management at Anthem Electronics. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

About Kashya

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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