SteelEye took the next step today in its growth with our announcement that Garrett Gafke has joined the company as President and COO. Garrett brings great experience and enthusiasm to this new role and we look forward to accelerated expansion in all aspects of our business under his leadership.
Welcome to SteelEye, Garrett.
Our east-coast R&D team spent the weekend moving into new, and by that I mean brand new, offices in Lexington, SC. We are now in a beautiful custom-designed office space with the most modern in everything.
We're especially excited to have a larger lab for our dev and test teams and expanded conference facilities for hosting customer visits and conducting training classes.
Our new east coast address is:
SteelEye Technology
204 Caughman Farm Lane
Suite 201
Lexington, SC 29072
Here are a couple of pictures of team members hard at work in the new office space:
Our CTO, James Bottomley, is just back from the Ottawa Linux Symposium where he was selected to deliver next year's keynote speech. If you have ever had the pleasure to hear James speak, you know the unforgettable experience that the audience has in store for them. If not, here is hint: bring your OED. You may enjoy this writeup of this year's keynote and the clever way that the selection of James was revealed to the attendees. Congratulations to James on this well-deserved recognition.
Today we announced the signing of an agreement for SteelEye to merge with and become a subsidiary of our Japanese reseller, Ten Art-ni (read the name backwards to see its origin).
SteelEye and Ten Art-ni have partnered for over four years to deliver LifeKeeper-based solutions to Japan. Together, we have established LifeKeeper as the premier High Availability clustering solution in Japan which has driven significant revenues for both of our companies. Both SteelEye and Ten Art-ni desire to expand our businesses globally and after much discussion, we have decided that the combination of our skills, our partnerships and our business practices is the fastest way to achieve growth.
All of us at SteelEye are very excited about this new phase of the company. Accelerated product delivery, expanded presence in Asia and increased marketing activities should be the most visible impact of our agreement. Ten Art-ni has their own set of JAVA-based products that I expect we will also begin to offer to the American and European markets following some localization work.
No longer is SteelEye a small company of 35 hard-working folks; now we are an integral part of a larger 200+ person corporation. Expect great things from us and our new larger SteelEye/Ten Art-ni family.
