SteelEye Demonstrates Support for Novell and IBM Joint Promotion of Linux on Power

LinuxWorld, Boston - February 16, 2005 SteelEye Technology Inc., an innovator in data and application availability management for Linux and Windows, today announced that it joins industry leaders IBM and Novell in efforts to drive rapid adoption of Linux on Power. To this end, SteelEye will provide its flagship LifeKeeper product set of high availability solutions on the IBM OpenPower servers running SUSE LINUX. At LinuxWorld Boston, SteelEye is demonstrating this forthcoming update to LifeKeeper for Linux and announcing the general availability of LifeKeeper for Linux on Power as of March 28, 2005, and the extension of the LifeKeeper Protected Program to include the growing number of ISVs who are porting enterprise applications to SUSE LINUX running on the Power platform.

LifeKeeper for Linux on Power provides all the capabilities and functionality which customers have come to expect from SteelEye solutions. With its support for DB2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase, LifeKeeper for Linux on Power will be ideal for environments that run mission critical database operations. As customers look to migrate to Linux, they can be assured that they get the high availability benefits of LifeKeeper for Linux on both Intel and Power platforms, and that they achieve all the benefits of having a common solution across their entire IT environment.

"IBM and Novell have worked closely with SteelEye to move LifeKeeper to the Power architecture, and we are pleased that our efforts support their joint Linux on Power initiative. The stability, economics and scalability of SUSE LINUX on Power has allowed SteelEye to bring additional functionality to the enterprise Linux market," said Bob Williamson, VP Products of SteelEye. "We believe that SUSE LINUX on Power is a platform that should be considered by any organization looking to deploy mission critical applications on Linux.

"Novell is pleased that SteelEye has chosen SUSE LINUX as the reference porting platform for their initial work and deployment of LifeKeeper for Linux on Power. We are excited to see this solution demonstrated at LinuxWorld Boston," said Hal Bennett, vice president of alliances of Novell. "High availability solutions are key to the success of SUSE LINUX on Power, and SteelEye has established LifeKeeper as an excellent solution that provides confidence to enterprise Linux customers. With SteelEye support of SUSE LINUX on Power, we expect many ISVs to follow their lead and customers to increase their deployment of SUSE LINUX on Power."

SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Power solution will be demonstrated at LinuxWorld Boston. SteelEye will be at booth 1203.

About SteelEye Technology, Inc.

SteelEye is a leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery.

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.

The LifeKeeper Protected Program provides technology, training, support and guidance to design and deliver a tested and certified application monitoring module which will work with SteelEye's LifeKeeper high availability clustering software. Learn more at http://www.steeleye.com/protected.

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SteelEye Technology, Inc.
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