SteelEye Technology Inc. and Ingram Micro Inc. Enter Into North American Distribution Agreement
Ingram Micro to Market and Sell SteelEye's LifeKeeper Suite of High Availability Clustering, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery Solutions.
Mountain View, CA - September 10, 2004 - - SteelEye Technology® Inc., a leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for Linux and Windows, today announced it has entered into a distribution sales and marketing agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest technology distributor. Under this agreement, Ingram Micro will market and sell SteelEye's LifeKeeper line of high availability clustering, data replication and disaster recovery products to their broad and diverse customer base of value added resellers in North America.
SteelEye's LifeKeeper delivers enterprise class high availability clustering and data replication for systems and applications running in Linux and Windows environments. With LifeKeeper, organizations ranging from the smallest IT shop to large Fortune 500 data centers can create a highly reliable environment for their mission critical data and applications. Because LifeKeeper operates on standard Intel-compatible hardware running either Windows or Linux, SteelEye and Ingram Micro are able to bring enterprise class reliability solution to the market at an extremely attractive price.
"SteelEye is very excited to have Ingram Micro as our leading distribution partner in the North America and looks forward to making it easier for our customers to acquire solutions through this new relationship" said Jim Fitzgerald, founder and EVP of business development for SteelEye, "With Ingram Micro's growing commitment to Linux, as well as their breadth of resources, skill and regional coverage, this partnership will help expand our success within the North America market".
In addition to offering SteelEye's product to their customer base, Ingram Micro will join with SteelEye to provide product training, establish support processes and place SteelEye's product into resource centers. The companies will work together to promote both SteelEye's LifeKeeper and Ingram Micro's broader Linux offering in a series of marketing events during the next year. These actions will further accelerate the adoption of Linux as a platform of choice for mission critical application deployment.
"Ingram Micro always looks to offer our customers best in class solutions and SteelEye is no exception, said Diane Lees, senior category manager, Ingram Micro U.S. "SteelEye has proven itself as a leading provider of high availability on Linux and we are pleased to now offer SteelEye LifeKeeper products and solutions to our North America customer base."
SteelEye's LifeKeeper product line is immediately available from Ingram Micro. SteelEye will be demonstrating its LifeKeeper solution at the Ingram Micro VentureTech Network Invitational in Las Vegas September 12th through the 15th. For more information on acquiring LifeKeeper, please contact your local Ingram Micro representative at 1-800-456-8000 or contact SteelEye Technology at 1-877-319-0108.
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.
About Ingram Micro Inc.
As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves 100 countries and is the only global IT distributor with operations in Asia. For more information, please visit http://www.ingrammicro.com.
Press Contact
Jim Fitzgerald
SteelEye Technology, Inc.
+1 (650) 237-2402
Jim.fitzgerald@steeleye.com
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