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General Availability of LifeKeeper for Linux 3.0 Release
Reliability Clustering Solution Ensures Continuous Availability of E-Commerce Applications and Data for Linux-based Enterprises
Mountain View, Calif. June 27, 2000 - SteelEye Technology Inc., an emerging leader in reliability platforms for Linux-based applications, announced today immediate general availability of its LifeKeeper for Linux 3.0. LifeKeeper is a commercially proven, automated high-availability clustering solution for Linux that ensures continuous availability of business and mission critical application and data as well as 24 x 7 system uptime. With this announcement LifeKeeper becomes commercially available on the Red Hat distribution of Linux.
"We are fully committed to using Linux for our enterprise operations. Linux provides substantial advantages of cost, ease of use, and choice of suppliers," said Evan Hall, senior systems engineer at NetMagic. "Availability of LifeKeeper for Linux enables us to maximize the uptime and continuous operations for our Web-based applications. As an added benefit, automation and ease-of-use features of the product enable us to efficiently scale our IT operations. SteelEye's LifeKeeper gives us the confidence we need to move forward with our eBusiness Linux initiatives." LifeKeeper is ideally suited for Web-centric enterprise applications and provides IT and system managers deploying Linux with the ability to easily implement fail-over and system back-up solutions that ensure round-the-clock availability of applications, data and Linux servers in enterprise E-Commerce environments.
"The release of SteelEye's LifeKeeper extends the value and viability of Red Hat's open source technology for mainstream enterprise development projects," said Walter McCormack, VP and GM of redhat.com. "By supporting Red Hat Linux 6, SteelEye is providing IT and enterprise managers with a cost effective powerful assurance that Linux-based applications, systems and data are continuously available."
LifeKeeper for Linux has evolved from a commercially proven high-availability solution, originally developed at AT&T and NCR Corporation with an eye towards non-stop computing. Many Fortune 500 companies including Chase Manhattan Bank and AT&T rely on LifeKeeper to protect their enterprise systems and keep their business critical applications up and running LifeKeeper provides a cluster framework for application monitoring and recovery within the cluster," said Jim Mason, CTO at SteelEye. "It rapidly recovers from failures while automatically restoring all network interfaces, data, and applications. The product uses multiple fault detection and robust recovery mechanisms to provide the assurance system administrators require to move forward with their Linux projects."
Pricing and Availability
SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Linux 3.0 is available now and runs on the Red Hat Linux 6.1 platforms. Pricing starts at $2,995. For more information, please contact SteelEye Technology at (650) 318-0108, or visit the company's Web site at www.steeleye.com.
About SteelEye LifeKeeper
SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Linux 3.0 is a commercially proven, automated high-availability clustering solution for the Linux platform. LifeKeeper ensures business and mission critical application and data availability as well as 24 x 7 system uptime. LifeKeeper is ideally suited for Web-centric enterprise E-Commerce applications. The product provides IT and system managers deploying Linux with the ability to easily implement fail-safe recovery of their eBusiness applications and services to ensure consistent service levels for their customers, partners and employees.
About SteelEye Technology Inc.
SteelEye Technology Inc. provides reliability platforms for Linux-based enterprise E-Commerce applications. SteelEye Technology's flagship product, LifeKeeper, has been installed in multi-platform environments at hundreds of enterprise servers at Fortune 500 companies, including Chase Manhattan Bank and AT&T Corporation. The company is privately held and has received venture financing from Venrock Associates. SteelEye Technology Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and is on the Web at www.steeleye.com.
