SteelEye Technology Releases LifeKeeper for Windows version 4.3 and LifeKeeper Data Replication for Windows version 4.0
Mountain View, CA - December 8, 2004 - SteelEye Technology® Inc. today extended its leadership in application and data availability management for Windows platforms with the release of LifeKeeper™ for Windows v4.3 and LifeKeeper Data Replication for Windows v4.0. LifeKeeper provides data replication, high availability clustering and disaster recovery for enterprise applications in Windows 2000/2003 environments. The new product releases combine to provide increased protection for enterprise applications and data through enhanced system-level resource monitoring and recovery, support for iSCSI storage devices, support for data replication to multiple sites across wide-area networks for disaster recovery, and integration of the product administration functions into a central application and data availability management console.
"Protecting business-critical applications on Windows is vitally important to our customers, and we are seeing increased need to build disaster recovery configurations for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. These new releases of LifeKeeper and LifeKeeper Data Replication for Windows from SteelEye provide us the tools required to meet those customer needs and will let us expand the configurations that we can design and deploy," said Bipin Patel, Founder and President of Open Minds, consultants for enterprise high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
Expanded Feature Set
LifeKeeper for Windows v4.3 delivers on the promise of self-healing systems, becoming the first Windows high availability solution to include preemptive problem detection and resolution to ensure applications are fully insulated from impending system resource depletion.
LifeKeeper for Windows v4.3 adds an additional health monitoring subsystem which detects patterns of system resource depletion and takes proactive measures to protect applications against degraded performance. Designed specifically to address system lockups induced by virtual memory fragmentation seen in Microsoft Exchange 2000 environments and expanded to other resource depletion issues, this new monitoring layer detects conditions which can lead to server degradation and takes one of three pre-emptive restorative actions, based on policies defined at configuration time, to ensure applications are protected. Users are given full control through their ability to select the appropriate action for their environment and are given full confidence in the uptime of their application through LifeKeeper's enhanced resource monitoring abilities.
Other features added in this release include support for iSCSI devices, including the IBM DS300 and enhancements to LifeKeeper's file share recovery mechanism.
LifeKeeper Data Replication for Windows v4.0 continues the tradition established by SteelEye of providing the highest levels of data protection available on Windows today through delivery of greatly expanded data replication and management capabilities. These include:
- One data source replicating simultaneously to multiple geographically dispersed data targets. Data can be replicated across a LAN, a WAN or a combination of both to build the data protection configuration that best meets recovery point objectives.
- Use of Windows Dynamic Disks as Data mirrors. Other solutions are limited to the use of Basic Disks.
- Support for iSCSI devices. Either source or target data volumes can be implemented on iSCSI devices to expand data configurations and capacity.
- Low-bandwidth optimizer for Microsoft Exchange. When replicating large Exchange attachments across low-bandwidth connections, LifeKeeper Data Replication optimizes network traffic for the best trade-off between performance and data protection.
- Full management integrated into LifeKeeper GUI. Now, both LifeKeeper and LifeKeeper Data Replication can be managed from the single JAVA-based LifeKeeper management console.
About LifeKeeper
LifeKeeper supports the building of active/active and active/standby data and application high availability configurations of up to 32 nodes. LifeKeeper provides for both shared nothing configurations using data replication and shared storage configurations which can be built using direct-attached shared SCSI, Fibre Channel SANs or iSCSI storage devices. LifeKeeper clusters may be deployed either within a Local Area Network or across a WAN for disaster recovery.
In addition to the applications noted above, LifeKeeper for Windows delivers out-of-the-box application protection for Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, IIS as well as file shares, IP addresses and LAN Manager. Through the use of the bundled Software Developer's Kit, any other application can be easily protected by LifeKeeper and integrated into the protection model.
"We continue to respond to market demand by expanding the environments which are supported by LifeKeeper for Windows," said Bob Williamson, Vice President of Products for SteelEye Technology. "This release marks the delivery of product enhancements requested by our customers as they design and deploy high availability and disaster recovery protection for their Windows applications."
Immediate Availability
SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Windows v4.3 and LifeKeeper Data Replication for Windows v4.0 are immediately available and can be purchased worldwide through a variety of SteelEye partners, including HP, IBM, Ingram Micro and an international network of resellers and systems integrators. For pricing and additional information, contact Presalessupport@SteelEye.com.
About SteelEye Technology, Inc.
SteelEye is a leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery on Linux and Windows.
The SteelEye LifeKeeper family of application-focused 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.
Press Contact
Bob Williamson
SteelEye Technology, Inc.
+1 (843) 532-0355
Bob.williamson@steeleye.com
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