SteelEye Acquisition of Commercially Proven High Availability Clustering Solutions LifeKeeper Holds Promise for Linux Market
Mountain View, Calif. - March 13, 2000 - SteelEye Technology, Inc., announced today that it has completed the strategic acquisition of LifeKeeper a high quality, commercially proven, high availability (HA) technology originally developed by AT&T and NCR Corporation. LifeKeeper will become the centerpiece of SteelEye's strategic offering for the Linux community, providing a foundation technology that ensures the reliability and performance of Linux as a platform for the rapidly evolving demands of eBusiness and Web-based applications. The LifeKeeper acquisition establishes SteelEye as a leader in HA products that offer fault resilience at system and application levels.
"When we looked at failover software, the only thing out there that was robust and dependable enough was Lifekeeper, said Lester Morgan, manager of NFL Information Services. "Lifekeeper worked as advertised."
LifeKeeper provides a rich set of features offering users more than simple server failover and load balancing. With LifeKeeper, an eBusiness enterprise can implement systems that allow for system, application and data availability. System failures are automatically recovered while LifeKeeper restores all network interfaces, data and applications, keeping downtime to a minimum and ensuring application availability. The software uses multiple fault detection mechanisms to recognize hardware component or application faults long before a total system failure can occur.
"Linux is fast becoming a platform of choice for running mission-critical eBusiness applications," said Jim Fitzgerald, CEO of SteelEye Technology. "We are focused on providing high availability solutions that give businesses confidence in Linux as a powerful platform for Web computing. The Web demands that companies dramatically improve their online and enterprise server capabilities. LifeKeeper is a feature-rich product that is a key part of our strategic goal to bring commercially proven advanced high availability software to eBusinesses."
Fortune 500 companies including Intel, Chase Manhattan Bank and AT&T rely today on LifeKeeper solutions to deliver business-critical applications. The LifeKeeper product family currently runs on the Solaris, Windows NT and NCRSVR4MP-RAS platforms.
About SteelEye Technology, Inc.
SteelEye Technology, Inc. was founded in 1999. The company provides high availability clustering solutions for Linux environments. SteelEye Technology's flagship product, LifeKeeper, has been installed on thousands of enterprise servers at Fortune 500 companies including Chase Manhattan Bank, AT&T Corporation and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC). The company is privately held and has received venture financing from Venrock Associates and Massey Burch Capital Corporation. SteelEye Technology, Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.
