SteelEye Technology, Inc. (steeleye.com), a leading provider of
business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for multi-vendor IT
infrastructures, today announced SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux
Multi-Site Cluster at Storage Expo 2008 in London. This solution
extends SteelEye's leading business continuity technology for Linux
environments by enabling organizations with shared-storage Linux
clusters within a data center to leverage another off-site replicated
node for disaster recovery. The unique product offering is ideal for
Linux users looking to cost-effectively extend existing
high-availability capabilities as well as for those instituting
first-time high-availability clustering and disaster recovery
technologies.
As the burden of enterprise data grows, heightened emphasis is placed
on how to manage, store and, most importantly, secure that data. By
adding additional node for disaster recovery, SteelEye is providing
data protection whether the server is local or on another continent. It
provides additional protection for unforeseen events as well as planned
downtime, such as data center moves.
"SteelEye is addressing IT's growing need for business continuity
and disaster recovery for x86 servers running enterprise Linux
applications and databases," said Jean S. Bozman, Research Vice
President, IDC. "By extending the reach of local Linux x86 server
clusters via a WAN connection--and by replicating the data across a
WAN--SteelEye is offering an all-in-one solution that leverages both
its LifeKeeper and DataKeeper products."
IDC's recently published Availability and Clustering Software (ACS)
forecast shows that ACS products supporting Linux and open-source
environments are carving out a significant presence in this worldwide
market--with an expected doubling of revenue-based market share from
9.1% of all ACS revenue in 2007 to 18.1%, by 2012. (1)
Specifically, SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux Multi-Site Cluster
offers outstanding robustness and flexibility in its optimized
host-based data replication technology. It allows for the inclusion of
a remote system as part of a local shared storage cluster, extending
disaster recovery protection to all file systems as if they are part of
a classic shared storage cluster. Similarly, existing shared storage
clusters can be enhanced with disaster recovery protection. Armed with
SteelEye's trademark flexibility, the product also integrates easily
and automatically with heterogeneous hardware and software environments
as well as existing SteelEye product offerings.
"SteelEye's flexible, host-based solutions are ideal for providing
cost-effective disaster recovery in heterogeneous environments," said
Dwain Sims, director of product management, SteelEye Technology, Inc.
"Organizations don't need another storage array or expensive feature
add-ons to deploy the high-availability clustering and data replication
technology that ensures business continuity in the event of a
disaster."
Additional information about SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux Multi-Site Cluster:
- Supports Red Hat, Novell, Oracle and CentOS Linux distributions,
- Performs
automatic switching between all clustered systems, ensuring continuous
protection of data against both local server and full datacenter
failures,
- Data can be replicated across both WAN (Async) and LAN (Sync) connections, and
- Integrates
easily with heterogeneous server environments and existing LifeKeeper
Recovery Kits for a complete disaster recovery solution.