Doron Kempel This is Me

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1. 1. www.esj.com

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   Published on: 4/29/2008   Last Visited: 4/29/2008

   Doron Kempel, Chairman and CEO of Diligent Technologies, observed that his company, which had sold its wares as software-based appliances for about the past five years, was already installed at "200 of the Fortune 500." In addition to IBM, its products have also been re-sold by Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems, and by smaller players such as Overland Storage.
   
   Why buy the cow if you have ready access to the milk? At first, I suspected that this was a play by IBM to isolate HDS and Sun, and maybe Overland, from their de-dupe source: Diligent. However, assurances were made that IBM wanted to retain the relationship with HDS as a technology distributor. "With respect to Sun," however, the continued sale of Diligent products "remains to be seen," a spokesperson observed. Later, Kempel stated that Sun accounted for one to two percent of Diligent's revenues in 2007, but that Sun's contribution was expected to rise to 15 percent this year.
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   Kempel laid out the proposition that de-dupe is a form of "intelligent compression" in which replicated bits or strings of bits are removed from block data. He said that the logical place for de-dupe is in archival storage and virtual tape libraries; it was not appropriate or intended for primary storage, nor for tape.

2. 2. www.computerbusinessreview.com

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   Published on: 4/21/2008   Last Visited: 4/22/2008

   Doron Kempel, chairman and CEO of Diligent, said: "We are pleased to become a key member of the IBM system storage family, knowing IBM has the industry's most comprehensive vision for the future direction of storage and data-protection.

3. 3. Diligent Technologies

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   Published on: 2/4/2008   Last Visited: 2/4/2008

   Doron Kempel - Diligent Technologies Chairman & CEO
   
   As Chairman and CEO, Doron Kempel is responsible for the management, execution, and strategic direction of the company. Doron is a storage industry veteran with more than 20 years of executive management and technology experience including worldwide sales, business development, engineering, finance, marketing, and strategic planning.
   
   Before joining Diligent Technologies, Doron served as Vice President and General Manager for the Media Solutions Group at EMC Corporation, where he launched the organization as an autonomous global division consisting of independent engineering, sales, marketing, business development, professional services, and other business functions. Over a three-year period, Doron oversaw the development and integration of several technical solutions, established and managed a global independent sales force, directed alliance and marketing efforts, led the acquisition of two companies, and grew the business unit into a multi-hundred-million-dollar revenue source.
   
   Before joining EMC in 1998, Doron served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Imedia Corporation, a privately held company that produced routing and re-multiplexing systems for digital video. Doron has also held positions with Robertson, Stephens & Company's Corporate Finance, Technology Group, and The Israel Corporation LTD, one of Israel's largest holding and investment companies. He also served in multiple command roles as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
   
   Doron holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University and a law degree (LL.B) and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Tel-Aviv University.