What does KVS stand for?

[doctortt]

My manager was telling me about KVS, and I was confused. He then told me EV used to be called as KVS. What does it stand for anyway? was it named way before Veritas owned the product?

[sym_se_support0]

KVS was a leading provider of content archiving software for alleviating the pains, pressures and risk companies felt consequentially from the explosive growth of information in messaging and collaborative systems.

KVS was an international software company with offices in the UK, US, Benelux, France, Germany, and Australia.

The company’s flagship product, Enterprise Vault, reduces storage costs, simplifies the management of and enables the discovery of content held within Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint Portal Server environments.

VERITAS purchased KVS in 2004 and then later Symantec purchased VERITAS.

http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,35363,00.html http://deitel.com.com/Symantec+to+buy+Veritas+for+13.5+billion/2100-7350_3-5493289.html


Message Edited by sym_se_support01 on 06-09-2008 12:35 PM

[Michael_Bilsbor · Accepted solution]

Hi,

So history lesson just for anyone's interest.

We started off within DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) as a team developing an office automation product called ALL-IN-1 (it was the MS Exchange of the 80's and eary 90's), made DEC billions.

So originally product was called Digital Enterprise Vault  (.DVS file stands for Digital Vault Saveset) where the Digital really does stand for Digital the company,and saveset is actually a VMS term for what in windows you'd call a .CAB file)

DEC then went on to be bought by Compaq so it became Compaq Enterprise Vault.

We got made redundant and formed KVS.  KVS stands for k-Vault Software  (where the K stands for knowledge, remember this is the late 90's when we started, so "knowledge management" is big hot term with investors etc. if in the late 90's you mentioned you were an email archiving product you just get blank looks, mention knowledge management and investors suddenly get more interested)

Obviously we got bought by Veritas and now Symantec.  So we've stayed the same team but have actually been part of 5 companies.  From 140,000 employees at DEC, down to the 24 or so when we started KVS, back to 16,000 now within Symantec.

[doctortt]

Great info. Thank you very much.

[MarkBarefoot]

And if you cut "The Dodo" in half you will see "Enterprise Vault" runing through him like a stick of rock :)