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SteelEye® Enhances Business Readiness of Linux® With Industry-First Solution for Disaster Recovery

SteelEye LifeKeeper® First to Deliver Fully-Automated and Integrated Application-Centric Clustering, Wide-Area Data Replication and Recovery In a Single Solution

SteelEye and IBM® to Illustrate Fault Resilient On Demand Computing With Unique Live Disaster Recovery Demonstration at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo® 2004 Comprising Combined Solution of SteelEye LifeKeeper and IBM DB2® Running on IBM eServer™ BladeCenter™ Systems

LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, New York City - January 20, 2004 - SteelEye Technology® Inc., a leading provider of proven enterprise IT reliability solutions for business continuity, today announced the immediate availability of SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux, the industry's first, integrated and fully automated solution for disaster recovery of applications, databases and infrastructure running on industry-standard Intel-based servers.

"Linux adoption continues to grow rapidly, driven in large part by the attractive price-performance benefits of commodity Intel-based architectures over RISC-based platforms," said George Weiss, vice president and research director at Gartner, Inc. "Until recently Linux adoption has centered around non-business critical, network edge applications. However, that is now changing as businesses of all sizes gain confidence from the maturing of the Linux platform, the increasing commitment of the vendor community to Linux, and the availability of solutions that address established business requirements including reliability, availability and scalability."

SteelEye and IBM will partner at LinuxWorld to demonstrate live the new SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution by clustering two eServer IBM BladeCenter systems located in each of the SteelEye (#761) and IBM (#521) booths, and failing over an Apache and DB2 Universal Database application between them, across the show floor.

"IBM BladeCenter technology running Linux and DB2 delivers terrific, scalable price performance," said Tony Rummans, VP, Business Development, IBM Information Management. "We are pleased to work with SteelEye LifeKeeper to establish a DB2 Linux Cluster solution that enables distributed enterprises, and small and medium-size businesses, to implement scalable, fault resilient on-demand computing today, with the flexibility to evolve with minimum cost and complexity as business needs evolve in the future."

"Linux running on Intel has proven itself technically. But for Linux to gain widespread acceptance to support business critical applications, customers demand solutions that can ensure the same or higher levels of reliability and fault resilience that they have grown accustomed to on the legacy Unix platforms which they are migrating away from," said Paul Adams, president and CEO of SteelEye Technology, Inc. "The new SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux resolves this vital need and enables customers to gain the full cost-saving and other benefits of Linux with full confidence that their business operations are protected from even the most catastrophic of events."

SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux

SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution enables businesses, large and small, to fully leverage the business value of Linux by providing a complete solution to the key business requirement for business continuity during times of disaster. SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery is the first technology to combine application-centric systems monitoring, data protection, failover and failback in a single, scalable solution.

In production, LifeKeeper performs continuous monitoring of application resources and synchronizes data changes between the primary production and target recovery environments. Upon detection of a fault condition, LifeKeeper provides the option of restarting or correcting the condition, or failing over one or more components to the recovery environment. In a catastrophic disaster recovery scenario, such as a loss of the primary site, LifeKeeper fails over and bring into service, in sequence, each component of the production system, or systems, in the recovery environment.

LifeKeeper addresses potential data integrity issues between the production and recovery environments, and in particular the status of any databases and individual transactions at the time of disaster. LifeKeeper ensures that the recovery environment is always in-sync with the production environment, regardless of distance or time of day.

Upon full recovery, LifeKeeper continues to monitor the availability of the recovery environment and also the status of the former production environment. Should the latter come back 'online' users are given the option of either manually switching back, or automatically failing back, during which time LifeKeeper takes care of re-synchronizing the original production data with changes that were applied within the recovery environment.

The SteelEye and IBM Relationship

SteelEye Technology is an Advanced member of PartnerWorld for Developers, the developer resource for IBM Business Partners. IBM and SteelEye have jointly validated SteelEye® LifeKeeper® on a range of IBM® eServer xSeries™ servers and BladeCenter systems, and are delivering integrated Linux and Windows ServerProven solutions through the IBM worldwide sales force and global IBM Business Partners. These integrated solutions provide enterprises with cost-effective, reliable and scaleable server offerings that help to ensure maximum uptime for business-critical applications.

For more information please visit:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/systems_management/ha_clustering.html

About SteelEye Technology, Inc.

SteelEye is a leading provider of enterprise IT reliability solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery. The SteelEye LifeKeeper family of application-centric data protection, high availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions are easy to deploy and operate, and enable enterprises of all sizes to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications, servers and data.

SteelEye LifeKeeper offers enterprise-grade reliability while simplifying implementation with certified support for a wide range of applications, servers and storage options in Windows and Linux environments. In addition, SteelEye provides a full range of High Availability consulting and professional services to assist organizations with the assessment, design and implementation of solutions for ensuring High Availability within their environments.

SteelEye products and services are available worldwide, and may be purchased directly from SteelEye or through our international network of reseller and systems integration partners.

SteelEye is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, please visit www.steeleye.com.

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