SteelEye Technology CTO James Bottomley Elected to Board of Open Source Development Labs
Open source luminary serves as bridge to development community
PALO ALTO, CA-February 28, 2006 - SteelEye Technology, Inc., the leading provider of award-winning data and application availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery on Linux and Windows, announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Dr. James Bottomley, has been elected to the board of directors for the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux®.
Bottomley joins an OSDL board led by Chair Ross Mauri of IBM and fellow board members Richard Wirt of Intel; Kazuhiro Ooki of NEC; Masahiro Date of Fujitsu; Keiichiro Nakanishi from Hitachi; Steve Geary of Hewlett-Packard; Markus Rex of Novell; Larry Augustin from VA Software; Jerry Greenberg of G. S. Greenberg Associates; Frank Fanzilli of Fanzilli-Bauer Technology Partners; and Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL.
"OSDL's board leadership provides direction that is fundamental to OSDL as we look at filling the next generation of gaps to accelerate Linux," said Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "James' experience and community insight is a natural addition as Linux and open source software continues to mature and to be deployed in diverse environments around the world."
"James' active involvement within both the open source and enterprise development communities provides him an excellent vantage point that makes him a natural choice for the role," said Paul Adams, SteelEye's president and chief executive officer. "We are proud that our CTO will lend his insight and leadership voice to a consortium that comprises some of the industry's top minds focused on open source computing and proud that SteelEye can support him in this important role."
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.
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.
About Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)
OSDL - sponsor of Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel - is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux-based operating systems in the enterprise. Founded in 2000 and supported by a global consortium of major Linux customers and IT industry leaders, OSDL is a nonprofit organization that provides state-of-the-art computing and test facilities available to developers around the world. With offices in China, Europe, Japan and the United States, OSDL sponsors legal and development projects to advance open source software as well as initiatives for Linux systems in telecommunications, in the data center and on enterprise desktops. Visit OSDL on the Web at http://www.osdl.org/.
OSDL is a trademark of Open Source Development Labs, Inc. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.
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