SteelEye Technology Joins MySQL Network Certified Partners Program

Certification recognizes LifeKeeper protection of MySQL

Palo Alto, CA - October 25, 2005 - SteelEye Technology, Inc., the leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery on Linux and Windows, today announced its membership in the MySQL Network Certified Partner program. As a member of this program, SteelEye and MySQL will work together to facilitate the integration of MySQL into the current IT networks of enterprise customers and to ensure full availability against downtime for these environments.

MySQL, the world's most popular open source database, is designed to meet the requirements of organizations that need to position proven and cost effective databases. As a member of the MySQL Network Certified Partner Program, SteelEye has added resources and support for MySQL to its high availability solutions.

SteelEye's flagship product, LifeKeeper, provides LAN and WAN-based, end-to-end protection of critical resources and enables companies of all sizes to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications, servers and data. Viewed by industry experts as best in class, the product most recently garnered LinuxWorld's 2005 Product Excellence Award for Best Clustering Solution.

"SteelEye is a key player in high availability solutions, and we are pleased to be partnering with them to certify LifeKeeper for MySQL Network," said Bertrand Matthelié, director of alliances for MySQL AB. "Users of MySQL and LifeKeeper can now rest assured that our companies' products will work seamlessly together for their critical scale-out applications."

"This alliance is a powerful combination," said Bob Williamson, Vice President of Products for SteelEye. "MySQL provides increased scalability and performance, and as a MySQL Certified Partner, we look forward to improving the individual customer experience by offering seamless compatibility between SteelEye products and MySQL. Our integrated solution for LAMP environments combines protection for Apache with protection for MySQL and offers the best protection available today for Linux web servers."

About SteelEye Technology

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. To learn more about SteelEye, visit www.steeleye.com. We are the High Availability Experts.

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