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On Exchange 2007

Senior VP, Bob Williamson, was interviewed by Nordicmond e-Channel on the topic of Business Continuity for Microsoft Exchange.    An excerpt is below:

How critical is the role that MS Exchange performs in a modern organization?

Each year, SteelEye conducts the Business Continuity Index Survey which asks a number of questions about corporate plans around business continuity.  Each year we ask the companies to rank the most critical IT functions to protect in a disaster.  Customer support and Email always rank as the top two critical functions.   In the 2007 survey, 61% of companies said that protecting email was either “Extremely Important” or “Vital to Our Business”.

Always There For You

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.

Setting the record straight

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.

I Want One of Those!

Our UK reseller, Open Minds, has published a great customer story on a LifeKeeper implementation at E-retailer, I Want One of Those.  From the story:

The LifeKeeper business continuity software has increased IT department productivity in general as well as safeguarding ERP server availability. Sagar explains that they operate in three modes: the production environment; a test environment and a QA mode: "We are continually developing the system. Now we can make a deployment to a live system during business hours if needed. We would have to have done this out of hours before. Now we don't have to worry so much. From October onwards we will have to stop development but we now have the means to deploy to the inactive node and test out system changes. It certainly helps us in the testing process."

Sagar is delighted with SteelEye LifeKeeper: "LifeKeeper has made life so much easier. Developing with Linux is hard at the best of times. LifeKeeper made it better. It's just absolutely brilliant and makes my team’s life easier."

Read the full story here.

VMworld Updates

Bloggers are catching up on their VMworld coverage.  SteelEye gets two mentions in the blogs below.  For any of you who want to stay current with Virtualization happenings, Alessandro Perilli’s Virtualization.info is a great resource.

SteelEye joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program
By Alessandro Perilli(Alessandro Perilli)
SteelEye Technology, a leading provider of data replication and application monitoring solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery on Linux and Windows, announced today at VMworld 2007 that it has joined the VMware ...
virtualization.info - http://www.virtualization.info/home.html

VMworld 2007 - What you may have missed
By Chris Wolf
Several vendors have stepped up to fill the void of failover in response to application or OS failure, and the following companies in the HA space made considerable noise at VMworld: SteelEye, Marathon Technologies, Scalent Systems, ...
Data Center Strategies - http://dcsblog.burtongroup.com/data_center_strategies/

SteelEye at VMworld

We are at VMWORLD 2007 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco this week.    In conjunction with the show, this morning we announced that SteelEye has joned the VMware Technology Alliance Partner program.

Visit us in booth 1209 to see how VMware Infrastructure 3 can be fully protected for both local failovers and wide-area disaster recovery using SteelEye LifeKeeper. We'll also demonstrate the industry's only solution for clustering Virtual Center Management Server.

LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards Finalist!

LifeKeeper for Linux has garnered yet more industry recognition by being named as a finalist for Best Clustering Solution in the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards.  This particular nomination is for the LifeKeeper Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure 3 which we will be demonstrating at the event next week. 

You can read about the awards and see the other finalists here.

Protection for Virtual Servers

We don't do much print advertising in SteelEye since online tends to give us a greater return.  But, we're launching a new campaign around protection for virtual servers and felt like IBM's Linux Executive Report would be a good place for us to make our presence known.  So, we splurged for a full page, check it out.

June Newsletter Now Available

The June issue of our newsletter, SteelEye Availability, is now availabla at http://www.steeleye.com/pdf/newsletter/june2006.pdf.

You'll find articles on:

• SteelEye Merger with Ten Art-ni
• LifeKeeper for Linux v5.2
• Update to LifeKeeper for SAP
• SteelEye CTO Speaks at Interop and FreedomHEC
• Customer Stories from Interlink-Ireland and Texas Christian University

LifeKeeper for SAP on Linux v5.2

SteelEye continues its recognized leadership in providing monitoring and recovery for SAP on Linux.

We have today expanded our solution with an update to the LifeKeeper Protection Suite for SAP on Linux.  Version 5.2 provides integrated protection and recovery for SAP Replicated Enqueue along with general maintenance. 

You can learn more about SteelEye's solutions for protecting SAP by downloading our white paper or by visiting us as the upcoming America's SAP Users Group convention in Orlando.