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SteelEye® Receives Prestigious Pinnacle Award from SAP
SteelEye Recognized For Special Achievement in Development of LifeKeeper® High Availability Clustering for mySAP™ Business Suite on Linux®
Mountain View, California - June 9, 2004 - SteelEye Technology® Inc., a leading provider of proven enterprise IT reliability solutions for business continuity, today announced it has been recognized by SAP AG, the world's leading provider of business software solutions, with an SAP® Pinnacle Award in recognition for its special achievement in delivering proven high availability clustering solutions to support the mySAP™ Business Suite family of business solutions.
SteelEye was one of only 13 SAP partners to receive a Pinnacle award this year at a special ceremony held during SAPPHIRE® 2004, SAP's international customer conference that took place May 11-13 in New Orleans. The award was presented to SteelEye by Stephan Rossius, senior vice president, SAP Global Partner Management.
"We are delighted to receive this award which recognizes the close technical relationship we have established with SAP in bringing to market clustering solutions for mySAP Business Suite on Linux," said Paul Adams, president and CEO of SteelEye Technology, Inc. "The great customer success we have enjoyed is truly the result of this partnership which has enabled us to deliver comprehensive, proven, SAP application-centric solutions for high availability and business continuity."
About the SAP Pinnacle Awards
The SAP Pinnacle Awards are part of an annual program established by SAP to recognize SAP Technology, Services and Software Partners that have excelled in developing their partnership with SAP and in providing complementary high-quality products, solutions and services to mutual customers.
About SteelEye LifeKeeper
SteelEye LifeKeeper is the only business continuity solution on Linux and Windows platforms to provide data replication, high availability clustering and wide-area automated disaster recovery, in a single, scalable, affordable solution.
SteelEye LifeKeeper offers enterprise-grade reliability while simplifying implementation with certified support for a wide range of applications, databases, servers and storage options in Windows and Linux environments, including mySAP Business Suite, Oracle®, DB2®, Microsoft® SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange and WebCT™.
A key benefit of the SteelEye LifeKeeper solution-set is the capacity to implement "scalable availability" - enabling organizations to implement an application-centric solution that meets their availability requirements today, while providing an integrated path to evolve as business, operational and application requirements change over time.
About the Relationship Between SteelEye and SAP
SteelEye is a member of the SAP Software Partner program, a program that enables third-party software vendors to deliver complete, technically verified turnkey software solutions that add more value to SAP solutions.
In addition, SteelEye and SAP have entered into a joint Software Development Cooperation and Support Agreement to provide SAP customers with advanced solutions and support for high availability clustering of mySAP applications. http://www.steeleye.com/news-events/pr/2003/012103b.php
This Development Cooperation Agreement between SteelEye and SAP establishes a long-term plan for cooperative product interface development and customer support at the SAP engineering labs in Walldorf/Baden, Germany. The agreement incorporates an Integration Roadmap spanning mySAP solutions, leading operating system distributions, and platform support from leading SAP hardware partners, including IBM and HP.
In 2004, it was announced that SAP Ventures, the venture capital arm of SAP AG had invested in SteelEye. http://www.steeleye.com/news-events/pr/2004/040804.php
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 replication, 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.
To complement its software solutions, SteelEye also 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 its international network of reseller and systems integration partners. For more information, please visit www.steeleye.com.
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