SteelEye Technology Announces Availability of LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux

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SteelEye Technology has announced the immediate availability of SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux, a comprehensive solution for disaster recovery of applications, databases, and infrastructure running on industry-standard Intel-based servers. This solution fills a critical need for businesses seeking to leverage the cost-saving benefits of Linux with the reliability and fault resilience of legacy Unix platforms. The LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution enables businesses to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications, servers, and data, thereby maintaining business continuity during times of disaster.

Key Takeaways:

  • SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux is the industry's first, integrated, and fully automated solution for disaster recovery of applications, databases, and infrastructure running on industry-standard Intel-based servers.
  • The solution addresses the key business requirement for business continuity during times of disaster, enabling businesses to fully leverage the business value of Linux with full confidence that their business operations are protected from even the most catastrophic of events.
  • SteelEye LifeKeeper performs continuous monitoring of application resources and synchronizes data changes between the primary production and target recovery environments.
  • In the event of a disaster, SteelEye LifeKeeper provides the option of restarting or correcting the condition, or failing over one or more components to the recovery environment.
  • The solution ensures that the recovery environment is always in-sync with the production environment, regardless of distance or time of day.
  • SteelEye LifeKeeper continues to monitor the availability of the recovery environment and the status of the former production environment, providing users with the option to manually or automatically switch back.
  • SteelEye Technology has partnered with IBM to demonstrate the solution at LinuxWorld, clustering two eServer IBM BladeCenter systems and failing over an Apache and DB2 Universal Database application between them.
  • The partnership between SteelEye Technology and IBM enables businesses to implement scalable, fault-resilient on-demand computing, with the flexibility to evolve at minimum cost and complexity as business needs evolve in the future.

Statistics:

  • The SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux is designed to address the key business requirement for business continuity during times of disaster.
  • The solution enables businesses to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications, servers, and data, with the reliability and fault resilience of legacy Unix platforms.
  • The SteelEye and IBM partnership demonstrates the scalability and fault-resilience of the solution, enabling businesses to implement on-demand computing with the flexibility to evolve at minimum cost and complexity.

Sources:

  • SteelEye Technology's press release announcing the availability of SteelEye LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux, dated January 20, 2004, retrieved from PR Newswire.
  • The SteelEye Technology website, accessed at http://www.steeleye.com.
  • The IBM website, accessed at http://www.ibm.com.
  • The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo website, accessed at http://www.linuxworldexpo.com.
  • The eReleases website, accessed at http://www.ereleases.com.