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SteelEye 2008 Year in Review: Part 4 of 4

Concluding my SteelEye 2008 Year in Review, here is a deeper look inside our final key 2008 theme: business continuity protection.

This year, we emphasized protecting companies against planned and unplanned downtime. We met these needs with a combination of our proven HA and DR products along with new offerings as detailed above. Downtime remains a major concern as more and more business is conducted online. We have an "embrace and extend" philosophy that strengthens existing Windows, Hyper-V, Linux, XenServer and VMWare products. We equip users of these widely accepted platforms with an added layer of protection against planned and unplanned downtime.

Greg Ewald, VP of Marketing

SteelEye 2008 Year in Review: Part 3 of 4

Continuing my SteelEye 2008 Year in Review, here is a deeper look inside our partnerships. Earlier in the week, I detailed our new business continuity products and next week I will detail our third and final key 2008 theme: protection.

We bolstered our channel presence with the addition of several new channel partners in 2008, including Tech Data's AIS Division and DICE Corporation, while expanding many of our existing relationships. Our overseas gains were also considerable; we added 360is, the UK's largest Citrix reseller, to our ever-growing list of channel partners and expanded our reseller presence in Asia and Africa. In May of 2008, SteelEye conducted our first annual Customer Advisory Board meeting. This was an important forum that we used to base future product directions on customer feedback while forming the foundation for best practices to engage and enable our channel partners. This resulted in the launch of the new SteelEye Partner Portal designed to give channel partners easy access to all SteelEye sales, marketing and technical resources. Additionally, our products were certified for the Citrix Ready Program, we received product qualification from EMC and Microsoft and we joined TSANet to improve and streamline our customer support initiatives.

Greg Ewald, VP of Marketing

Announcing the General Availability of SteelEye DataKeeper

We are pleased to announce that SteelEye DataKeeper and SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition are now available. DataKeeper is the newest addition to the SteelEye family of data protection and application availability software for Windows and Linux. With the addition of DataKeeper, users are now able to incorporate data protection for applications running on Windows Server 2008 and 2003.

DataKeeper Cluster Edition integrates seamlessly with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering (WSFC) to enable geographically dispersed clusters and to eliminate the single point of failure that a physical disk resource represents in a traditional cluster.

In addition to providing data protection for traditional applications such as SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, etc., we have received many inquiries about our abilities to replicate running Hyper-V VMs from one server to another and to facilitate quick migrations of VMs across data centers as demonstrated in this video and as described on Microsoft's Virtualization Partner site.

Dave Bermingham, Director of Product Management

SteelEye 2008 Year in Review: Part 2 of 4

Continuing my SteelEye 2008 Year in Review, here is a look at the new business continuity products we unveiled this year. Check back soon for a deeper look at our other two key 2008 themes: partners and protection.

Our development team was very busy in 2008. We rolled out four new products:

• SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer delivers real-time LAN and WAN replication of XenServer virtual machines
• SteelEye Protection Suite for Microsoft Exchange 2007 is a continuous data protection solution that assures business continuity for Exchange users
• SteelEye DataKeeper and DataKeeper Cluster Edition extends Microsoft Windows Server 2008 deployments with disaster recovery functionality and support for Hyper-V
• SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux Multi-Site Cluster supports an additional off-site replicated node for disaster recovery -- arguably an industry-first

Greg Ewald, VP of Marketing

SteelEye Joins Select Group of 2009 Hot Companies Finalists

This week, SteelEye was named a 2009 Hot Companies finalist by Network Products Guide. Our exemplary products, people, performance and potential -- dubbed the "4Ps" by the publication -- helped us stand out from hundreds of other applicants, which consisted of large and small high-tech companies from around the world.

SteelEye's product achievements -- providing cutting-edge data replication, application protection and high-availability clustering solutions for mixed IT environments -- impressed the judges in the storage and security categories. They noted how the flexibility and ease-of-use of our offerings remove the complexity generally associated with comprehensive disaster recovery planning.

SteelEye's entrepreneurial spirit, in terms of our people and performance, also played a significant role in our nomination. Our seasoned executives and staff, clear understanding of the market segment, strategic product positioning within emerging markets, well-executed revenue growth model and standout expansion strategies helped to secure the nomination.

As for SteelEye's potential in the coming year, we have plans to expand our channel partner reach and build upon our current product offerings to meet new and ever-changing market and enterprise needs. Stay tuned as we raise the bar for our "4Ps" and other judging criteria in 2009.

Greg Ewald, VP of Marketing

SteelEye 2008 Year in Review: Part 1 of 4

SteelEye made substantial progress in 2008. We have a watchful eye on the economy with a very solid footing as we transition into 2009. We remain a profitable, wholly owned subsidiary of SIOS Corporation and continue to expand upon our best-in-class high-availability and disaster recovery solutions. We are moving aggressively into high-growth areas including virtualization, cloud computing and business continuity. This year's expansion has already been validated as we are experiencing substantial demand in all of these market segments.

SteelEye sees an economy that will drive more IT sales to leverage existing assets and assure the availability of those assets to internal and external stakeholders. We are in an enviable position as one of the most reliable, cost-effective providers of business continuity solutions. We help organizations take advantage of new trends like virtualization and cloud computing by leveraging our tried and proven data replication and high-availability core competencies to better administer these resources while avoiding costly downtime. Our products quickly and cost-effectively meet any company's recovery time and recovery point objectives -- valuable commodities in any economic climate -- particularly today when IT managers must assure that every expenditure is used to solidify their infrastructure while reducing operational costs.

2008 for SteelEye is best characterized by products, partners and protection. Over the coming days, I will provide deeper insight into each of those three major themes.

Greg Ewald, VP of Marketing

Symantec is Late to the Party

This morning, Symantec announced a protection solution for VMWare. However, much like their support of Linux, Symantec is late to the party. Their announcement has three main components:

1. Protection of vCenter. SteelEye Protection Suite for VMWare has provided monitoring and recovery for vCenter (formerly Virtual Center) for over two years. It is a field-tested solution that leverages our strong LifeKeeper for Windows platform.

2. TSANet support. SteelEye is part of the TSANet group of companies that are committed to collaborating for the benefit of our common customers. This membership helps customers with issues to find resolutions from this comprehensive group of technology providers that includes VMWare, Microsoft, Citrix and over 100 other companies.

3. Application monitoring and protection. SteelEye has been the leader in application-centric monitoring and recovery for almost a decade and has been protecting workloads running inside of VMWare ESX server since VMWare 2.5.

Bob Williamson, SVP of Product Management