SteelEye Expands Windows Offerings for Application and Data Protection.SteelEye Brings High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. For 64bit Windows, Exchange 2007, Microsoft Virtual Server A virtual machine environment for Windows servers from Microsoft that supports most x86 operating systems as guests. It is used to run multiple copies of Windows as well as Linux in a virtualized server environment. For virtualizing a user's PC, Microsoft offers Virtual PC. See virtual machine. ; Industry's Fastest WAN Replication Offering LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- SteelEye Technology([R]), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and provider of award-winning data protection and application availability solutions for Linux and Windows, today reached another milestone in Windows protection as it announced updates to two of its flagship products. The company today premiered Version 6 of both its LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Windows and SteelEye Data Replication. The updated LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Windows imbeds support for 64bit platforms, enhances the ability to manage applications running within virtual machines created by either VMware ESX Server VMware ESX Server is an enterprise-level virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc., a division of EMC Corporation. ESX Server is a component of VMware's larger offering, Virtual Infrastructure, which adds management and reliability services to the core server product. or Microsoft Virtual Server and adds protection of Exchange 2007 environments. This expanded feature set ensures that users who are adopting new technology platforms or are deploying virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. for server consolidation can have the full benefit of the power of LifeKeeper protection. SteelEye Data Replication v6 delivers the industry's fastest replication speeds across WANs in order to ensure complete and continuous data protection. Through the use of software techniques that assure a constant and optimal flow of data across any wide-area connection, regardless of latency, SteelEye Data Replication achieves over 90% bandwidth utilization without the need for hardware accelerators or compression devices and provides the highest WAN throughput of any software-based replication solution on the market today. For environments where even greater throughput is desired, this updated version also includes an integrated compression engine which can be tuned by users to one of 9 compression levels. In order to manage the accelerated network traffic, per-mirror replication throttles, also called speed limits, have been implemented to provide administrators complete control over cross-site bandwidth usage. "As a long-time SteelEye reseller, we have helped many customers solve their high availability and disaster recovery needs. Some recent examples include Cabot Square Cabot Square is one of the central squares of the Canary Wharf Development in London's Docklands. The square includes a fountain and several works of art, and is the address for the London Offices of Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and others. Capital and New Star Asset Management. This new release of LifeKeeper for Windows and SteelEye Data Replication delivers additional features which allow us to serve an expanded set of customers and bring greater value to existing accounts," said Shobana Patel, President of Open Minds. "With the release of SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. 2005 and the pending availability of Exchange 2007, the demand for 64bit server platforms running Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. is increasing dramatically," said Bob Williamson, Vice President of Products for SteelEye. "We now have a single version of LifeKeeper which can work on either 32bit or 64bit platforms to give users the greatest possible flexibility." About SteelEye LifeKeeper for Windows SteelEye LifeKeeper for Windows supports the building of active/active and active/standby data and application high availability configurations of up to 32 nodes. LifeKeeper provides for both shared-nothing configurations using data replication and shared storage configurations which can be built using direct-attached shared SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. , Fibre Channel SANs or iSCSI storage devices. LifeKeeper clusters may be deployed either within a Local Area Network or across a WAN for disaster recovery. In addition to the applications noted above, LifeKeeper for Windows delivers out-of-the-box application protection for SAP Netweaver, IBM Director IBM Director is an element management system (EMS) (sometimes referred to as a "workgroup management system") first introduced by IBM in 1993 as NetFinity Manager. The software was originally written to run on OS/2 2.0. , SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. as well as file shares and IP addresses. Through the use of LifeKeeper Extender See Media Center Extender, bus extender and DOS extender. , any other application can be easily protected by LifeKeeper and integrated into the protection model. About SteelEye Technology, Inc. SteelEye, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is the leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery for Linux and Windows. The SteelEye LifeKeeper family of application-focused data replication, high availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions are priced and architected to enable enterprises of all sizes to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications, servers and data. To complement its software solutions, SteelEye also provides a full range of high availability consulting and professional services to assist organizations with the assessment, design and implementation of solutions for ensuring High Availability within their environments. Trademark Notice SteelEye Technology, SteelEye and LifeKeeper are registered trademarks of SteelEye Technology, Inc. All third party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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