Axxana, a Storage Start-Up to Follow, in DR

Don’t forget this new start-up, Axxana, founded in 2005 and currently in stealth mode. We don’t know what the company is really preparing. It only writes about a product ”to change the face of disaster recovery”.

But the list of its executives is really impressive. Look at that:

Co-founder and CEO Eli Efrat was CEO of MessageVine, based in Israel and in mobile instant messaging.
axxana_eli_efrat Eli Efrat

CTO is the famous Alex Winokur, who spent 11 years in the IBM Research Division, achieving the IBM Master Inventor title, and authoring and co-authoring over 15 patents in storage, network management, and telecommunication areas. Prior to founding Axxana, he was the CTO of XIV Information Systems and the founder of SEPATON (formerly SANgate).
axxana_winokur Alex Winokur

And there are other two prestigious storage guys in the board of advisors:

Fred Van den Bosch is the current CEO of Librato. During his 14 year career at Veritas Software (later acquired by Symantec), he played a key role in the company’s growth from a small start-up to a successful multibillion dollar company, as Executive VP of Engineering, CTO and board member.
axxana_ven_den_bosch Fred Van den Bosch

Legendary Moshe Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks. He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf, and in the late 1980s, joined EMC, leading the team that developed Symmetrix. He holds over 40 patents for various innovative storage hardware and software-related technologies. He was involved directly in several storage start-ups including Diligent Technologies, as co-founder and director, and XIV Information System as co-founder and executive chairman, both companies sold to IBM.
axxana_moshe_yanai Moshe Yanai

As many others ventures where Yanai was involved, this one has offices in Israel (Tel-Aviv) and headquarters in the U.S. (Wellesley, MA). Axxana raised $5 million from Gemini Israel Funds in 2007. Before this round of financing, the firm got funds from private investors including Roni Einav and Dalia Prashker, founders of New Dimension Software, Dan
Barnea, Senior VP at BMC Software and Eilon Tirosh and
Roni Zarom, founders of Exalink.