Our second fantastic Windows review in two months has hit the press! We have great products that are being recognized by the leading Windows publications; congratulations to the team on these outstanding achievements.
Redmond Magazine has published an overview of various high availability solutions, including LifeKeeper. An excerpt reads
[LifeKeeper] works with whatever additional server hardware you have available and you can implement it fairly quickly. Because it can protect SQL Server systems (in addition to Exchange), it offers high availability for the back-end of a wide range of applications. Anyone looking to improve uptime with SQL Server should look into LifeKeeper.
Today, we released the following LifeKeeper and SteelEye Data Replication for Windows products:
· LifeKeeper for Windows v6 Update 2
· LifeKeeper Microsoft SQL Server Recovery Kit v6 Update 2
· SteelEye Data Replication for Windows v6 Update 2
· LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Windows v6 Update 2
· LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Microsoft Exchange 2007 v6 Update 2
· LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Microsoft SQL v6 Update 2
Major features include:
Bug fixes and general maintenance is also included.
Contact support@steeleye.com to check your eligibility for an upgrade to this new release.
Today we released the LifeKeeper for Windows Oracle Recovery Kit v6 Update 1 Maintenance 3. This new release includes all of the features of the previous Oracle ARK and the following:
Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Windows Oracle Recovery Kit v6 Update 1 Release Notes and the corresponding Administration Guides for additional information.
SteelEye is pleased to announce the immediate general availability (GA) of SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linuxv6 Update 2 Maintenance 1. LifeKeeper for Linux v6 Update 2 Maintenance 1 includes any maintenance release changes made to v6 U2 and the following new features:
Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Linux v6 Update 2 Release Notes and the corresponding Administration Guides for additional information.
On Friday, one of our competitors announced that they were the "first" to deliver HA clustering for VMware Virtual Center. Of course, this isn't true as SteelEye has had this ability since April. Even worse, the release was turned into an article in a respected technical publication along with a supporting quote from VMware. Aargh!
We received some justice today when Chris Mellor posted a follow-up article which sets the record straight. Thanks, Chris.
David Marshall, one of the leading bloggers on Virtualization, interviewed us on the announcement. You can find that interview here.
We are very excited that Storage Magazine, the leading publication on data management, has named SteelEye Data Replication for Windows v6 as a finalist for Best Backup and Disaster Recovery Software of 2007. You can see the other finalists and more details here.
SteelEye Data Replication for Windows v6 is the first data protection product to offer both host-based volume replication and Continuous Data Protection. It supports multiple targets, nine levels of compression and a built-in data recovery wizard which helps administrators roll data back to any previous point in time.
Congratulations to the SteelEye engineering team for building a product worthy of recognition by a leading industry publication!
Chris Wolf, blogger for searchservervirtualization.com laments the fact that the SteelEye Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure was not included among the winners in the 2007 Products of the Year.
Yeah, we agree with Chris!
Today, we released the following LifeKeeper and SteelEye Data Replication for Windows products:
Included are changes made to support the following new features:
- LifeKeeper GUI Enhancements
- LifeKeeper License Key Manager Enhancements
- Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support
- Configuring Generic Application Scripts
- Usability enhancements for Oracle, SAP, SQL, and VMware VC Recovery Kits
Details on the product updates are available here.
Customers with an annual support agreement may contact SteelEye Support (support@steeleye.com) to download desired product updates.
A major feature of our most recent Linux release is support for LifeKeeper and SteelEye Data Replication with Oracle Enterprise Linux and CentOS. This marks something of a departure for SteelEye as historically we have limited support to Red Hat and SLES. Increasingly, however, we are seeing our customers wanting choice in the Linux distro that they deploy.
As Oracle stated in the press release announcing our support for OEL, the partnership between our companies goes back a long way:
SteelEye's support for Oracle Enterprise Linux is a natural step in the evolution of the companies' long-standing relationship. With the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program gaining favor among data center administrators, having the ability to provide the data and application protection provided by SteelEye is very important for our joint customers.
As a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, we have provided monitoring and protection for Oracle solutions since 2001and our Oracle Protection Suite remains one of our best selling products. We're pleased to also now support OEL.
