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SteelEye Protection Suite for SAP Featured in “SAP Systems Requirements” blog

For any IT administrator, complete site loss can be your worst nightmare – but it doesn’t have to be. As the first commercially available clustering solution for SAP on Linux, SteelEye LifeKeeper’s ability to deliver SAP data assurance is recognized in three “SAP Systems Requirements” blog postings covering best practices in high availability, disaster recovery and data protection.  Highlights from each post include:

·         High Availability – LifeKeeper ensures the highest level of availability by proactively monitoring all SAP required resources, protecting additional SAP components and enabling flexible configurations

·         Disaster Recovery - SteelEye Protection Suite for SAP provides the ability to easily and quickly resume operations in the event of a disaster with minimal impact to the production network

·         Data Protection – LifeKeeper provides complete automation or manual SAP recovery, ensuring true CDP functionality as defined by SNIA to provide an extra layer of data protection in the event of a disaster  

Don’t wait until it’s too late - visit SteelEye to learn more about SAP data protection and our family of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

SPS for Windows Wins 2009 Global Product Excellence Awards

SteelEye® Protection Suite for Windows (SPS for Windows) has been recognized by Info Security Products Guide as the winner of the Disaster Recovery Customer Trust Award in its 2009 Global Product Excellence competition. This honor recognizes SteelEye as the best-of-the-best in delivering the highest level of data protection in the event of a disaster. To learn more about this achievement, please visit our news room.

 

SPS for Windows and DataKeeper Cluster Edition are high availability and disaster recovery solutions for Hyper-V, SQL Server, SharePoint and Exchange.  All of this and more are being showcased this week at Microsoft Tech Ed North America 2009. To learn more about the demos or request a virtual demo, please visit http://steeleye.com/getinfo/.

 

SteelEye Featured in Processor Magazine

SteelEye is the subject of this week’s lead feature in Processor Magazine. The article titled “Seamless Continuity” positions SteelEye as a leader in business continuity planning and provides the data center and IT community with SteelEye’s unique strengths, including customer service, deep reseller network and level of internal expertise to stay ahead of the competition.

 

To check out the article and even learn a fun fact or two about the company, please visit our news room.

 

Business Continuity Tricks of the Trade: What you don’t know… WILL hurt you

Bob Williamson’s article on “Business Continuity Tricks of the Trade” is now available to readers on Business Solutions. If you’re a VAR working with a customer to develop a comprehensive business continuity plan, consider the following recommended steps below before diving in:

 

1. Ask Questions
2. Evaluate for Real ROI
3. Understand virtualization risks and rewards
4. Determine who’s in charge
5. Adapt with continuing evolution in business continuity

 To learn more, please visit our news room.

 

Mitigate Your Risk in the Cloud

This year, more than ever, IT administrators are faced with a multitude of challenges, including the mounting complexity of enterprise systems, ever-increasing volumes of corporate data, proliferation of virtual machines, increased focus on disaster recovery planning, and emerging legal and auditing requirements. So how exactly do we address these growing demands with shrinking budgets and staff?

The potential of extended capacity, scalability and cost benefits associated with cloud computing make transitioning to an on-demand IT services model a compelling solution, especially for small- to mid-sized businesses. Further, the success of early cloud providers has spurred other industry giants to jump on the cloud bandwagon. This lends legitimacy to the trend and suggests that fewer obstacles will be posed by integration, customization and cost of services in the future.

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Cloud services still are prone to service disruptions that compromise the availability of mission-critical applications and information. Reports, such as the “IT Cloud Services User Survey” released last fall by IDC, suggest that IT professionals view security, performance and availability as the top three challenges in adopting IT cloud services. As experts dwell on the specific vulnerabilities and failings of each platform and debate who’s responsible for availability and security in the cloud, IT departments remain hesitant to adopt technologies that could help address some of their hardest technology and business problems.

To meet the demands of a changing data center, IT administrators must move now to develop strategies for adopting cloud technologies—technologies that strategically address their business requirements. These strategies need to include roadmaps outlining how they intend to select, utilize and monitor cloud computing platforms; how they will measure and report ROI in using cloud-based compute resources; and how they will do this without compromising business continuity and data security.

In a recent article for Communications News, I outline five tips for selecting a cloud computing service provider. Choosing the right provider is an ideal first step in mitigating risks associated with cloud computing, helping you promote high availability of applications and information within the cloud and ensure business continuity.

Bob Williamson, SVP of Product Management