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LifeKeeper for Linux version 6 Update 2

Today, we released LifeKeeper for Linux Version 6 Update 2 Maintenance 2.   Here are the highlights:

A new recovery kit to integrate LifeKeeper with NEC iStoragePathSavior.

• Official Name - NEC iStorage StoragePathSavior (SPS) Recovery Kit, Version 6.2.
• New Part Number:    LI-SPS-6               

General Maintenance for the following kits:

• Apache Recovery Kit
• ClearCase Recovery Kit
• WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit
• Postfix Recovery Kit
• Device-Mapper Multipath (DMMP) Recovery Kit
• SDD Recovery Kit
• PowerPath Recovery Kit

Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Linux v6 Update 2 Release Notes and the corresponding Administration Guides for additional information.

Dwain Sims
Linux Product Manager

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”.

LifeKeeper review in Windows IT Pro

  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.

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.

LifeKeeper for Windows v6 Update 2

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:

• Support for Exchange 2007 SP1
• Enhanced usability including:
  • Displaying context-sensitive help text directly on input screens
  • Simplified Create/Extend process

Bug fixes and general maintenance is also included.

Contact support@steeleye.com to check your eligibility for an upgrade to this new release.

Oracle 11g support

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:

• Support for Oracle 11G on Windows
• Automatically protect shared ORACLE_HOME drive

Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Windows Oracle Recovery Kit v6 Update 1 Release Notes and the corresponding Administration Guides for additional information.

LifeKeeper for Linux v6 Update 2 Maintenance 1

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:

• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 on x86, AMD64/EM64T, and IBM POWER
• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 on x86, AMD64/EM64T, and IBM POWER
• Support for SLES 9 SP4 on x86, AMD64/EM64T, and IBM POWER
• SteelEye Data Replication
  • General Maintenance
  • Support for mirrors greater than 2 Terabyte (TB) in size
• Oracle Recovery Kit
  • Support for Oracle 11g
• General Maintenance for the following kits:
  • PowerPath Recovery Kit
  • WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit
  • SAP Recovery Kit
  • MD Recovery Kit
  • SDD Recovery Kit
  • DMMP Recovery Kit
• New Shared Storage Devices
  • Support for IBM DS3300 (iSCSI)  Single Path Only
  • Support for Sun StorageTek 2540

Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Linux v6 Update 2 Release Notes and the corresponding Administration Guides for additional information.

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.

Storage Magazine Selects SteelEye Data Replication

  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!

SteelEye Protection for VMware Infrastructure

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!