SteelEye is Business Continuity

We offer a range of business continuity solutions that focus on what is important to executives and IT professionals worldwide: Continuous Data Protection.

Providing enterprise-grade reliability for a wide range of applications and databases running on Windows, Linux and virtual environments, the SteelEye family of business continuity solutions is easy to deploy and operate, cost effective, and enables enterprises of all sizes to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications and data.

SteelEye Technology's Business Continuity and Recovery Solutions for Windows

SteelEye Technology delivers business continuity and recovery solutions for the entire Microsoft solution stack as well as other popular third party applications running on the Microsoft Windows Server platform. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, SteelEye is committed to building and delivering the best in breed business continuity and recovery software solutions to the Windows market place.

SteelEye's award winning SteelEye Protection Suite for Windows is SteelEye's flagship solution which addresses all business continuity recovery needs, including data protection, disaster recovery and high availability for Windows servers. The SteelEye Protection Suite is comprised of two main components: SteelEye Data Replication and LifeKeeper High Availability Clustering software.

LifeKeeper High Availability Clustering

LifeKeeper High Availability Clustering was the first commercially available clustering solution for the Windows NT platform, even predating Wolfpack, the predecessor to Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS). LifeKeeper continues to build on its strong tradition of Windows data recovery software by supporting the latest platforms, including Windows 2003 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

SteelEye Data Replication

SteelEye Data Replication is a host-based block level volume replicator that provides real-time data replication of all data, regardless of the application. SteelEye Data Replication is an integral part of the SteelEye Protection Suite, and is a true CDP product as defined by The Storage Networking Industry Association...

"The SNIA DMF CDP SIG defines CDP as follows:
Continuous data protection (CDP) is a methodology that continuously captures or tracks data modifications and stores changes independent of the primary data, enabling recovery points from any point in the past. CDP systems may be block-, file- or application-based and can provide fine granularities of restorable objects to infinitely variable recovery points."

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery solutions from SteelEye Technology are obtained when the SteelEye Protection Suite for Windows is used to protect applications and data across separate sites. By combining SteelEye Data Replication's ability to efficiently replicate data across a WAN with the automated application recovery capabilities of LifeKeeper High Availability; even the most stringent Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) can be met.

SteelEye Linux Data Protection Solutions

As more and more organizations adopt the Linux operating system for all of the right reasons; openness, flexibility, manageability, power, and economics, it becomes vital that Linux data protection and high availability solutions be researched and deployed. SteelEye Technology is the leader in Continuous Data Protection and High Availability Clustering solutions for Linux.

SteelEye Data Replication

Do you have critical data on a Linux server? Would you like to test your backup and recovery plan in case of a disaster? Does the idea of having a real time copy of the critical data on another server in different data center sound appealing? SteelEye data replication may be the solution that you have been looking for.

LifeKeeper for Linux

LifeKeeper for Linux is a modern, flexible alternative to classic high availability clustering products. It is a resource driven clustering system that is not tied to a single storage model, unlike many solutions in this field. With a huge collection of Application Recovery Kits available, LifeKeeper for Linux can get your high availability cluster up and running in a matter of hours, not a matter of weeks.

Disaster Recovery

When used together, SteelEye Data Replication for Linux and LifeKeeper for Linux can used to create a complete disaster recovery solution for your critical Linux servers.

SteelEye Technology Virtual Server Protection

Virtual machine technologies including Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX Server are being increasingly deployed to help businesses improve IT efficiency while driving down computing costs. As IT infrastructures evolve to include virtualization in order to help address scalability and manageability needs, it is critical that virtual server protection strategies evolve as well. SteelEye provides proven, reliable and cost effective data replication and high availability capabilities that work just as well in virtual server environments as they do on physical servers.

The SteelEye family of data replication, application monitoring and disaster recovery solutions provides

• Depending on the platform, complete high availability for applications and data with fast and automatic failure detection and recovery of both physical and virtual servers
• Comprehensive monitoring and recovery for individual applications and services within the VMs
• Tremendous flexibility in building failover configurations from a mixture of physical and virtual machines using either shared storage or data replication.

SteelEye's virtual server protection solution operates in virtual machines the same as on standalone physical systems to provide management of individual applications, database and critical services residing within the virtual machine. LifeKeeper supports physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical types of failover configurations with a nearly limitless range of more complex configurations possible from these simple building blocks.

• SteelEye protects applications and data within either the host OS or Linux and Windows guest OS.
• SteelEye provides continuous data protection of virtual machines across either LAN or WAN connections to ensure disaster recovery.
• SteelEye supports clusters built with any combination of physical and virtual servers.

Chris Wolf of analyst firm, Burton Group:

From a reliability standpoint, running applications on a VM may be even more secure than running them on a dedicated physical machine. Applications that do not natively support clustering can fail over to another server as part of a virtual machine via VMware HA, and adding replication software such as that offered by SteelEyeTechnology Inc. makes the process even easier, since it can trigger failover based on application failures.

The SteelEye Protection Suite for Exchange provides a comprehensive set of tools to address all areas of Exchange business continuity, including Exchange data protection, disaster recovery and high availability.

• Real-time CDP protects Exchange data and provides the highest RPO
• Classic failover and recovery for Exchange
• Support for shared storage and data replication
• Complete monitoring of Exchange processes
• Support for Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007
• Standard or Enterprise versions supported

Recovering Exchange in the event of a disaster is often the worst nightmare of an Exchange administrator. The recovery process takes much time and planning and is generally very hard to test. In addition to the downtime involved, Exchange recovery could involve a significant amount of data loss due to the fact that the databases need to be restored from the latest available backup. Using the SteelEye Protection Suite for Exchange, you are able to easily and quickly resume operations in the event of a disaster with little to no data loss.

LifeKeeper for Exchange was the first commercially available clustering solution for Exchange back in 1998 for Exchange 5.5 running on Windows NT4 and continues to be the leader in both the breadth and depth of Exchange disaster recovery and HA.

SteelEye Protection Suite for SQL High Availability

The SteelEye Protection Suite for SQL Server provides a comprehensive set of tools to address all areas of SQL business continuity, including SQL data protection, SQL disaster recovery and SQL high availability. Although Microsoft provides tools to address some of these concerns, there is no single, easy to use native Microsoft tool that addresses all of these as fully and as easily as the SteelEye Protection Suite for SQL Server.

• Real-time CDP protects SQL data and provides the highest RPO
• Classic failover and recovery for SQL
• Support for shared storage and data replication
• Complete monitoring of SQL processes
• Support for SQL 7, 2000 and 2005
• Standard or Enterprise versions supported

LifeKeeper's active monitoring helps to ensure the highest level of availability; going beyond just checking whether the server is alive, as seen in many other products. LifeKeeper also verifies that SQL is responding by doing periodic queries of the system databases as well as any user specified databases. LifeKeeper for SQL server can be configured in any one of the following configurations:

• Replicated or shared storage clustering
• 2-node active/passive cluster
• active/active cluster with multiple instances of SQL
• N+1 cluster (multiple active with single backup)
• Cascading failover (up to 32 nodes)
• Cross subnet clustering supported (failover across data centers)

LifeKeeper for Oracle

The LifeKeeper Oracle Recovery Kit provides a complete high availability solution for the Oracle database on Linux.

• Classic failover and Oracle disaster recovery
• Support for Shared Storage and Data Replication
• Complete monitoring of Oracle processes
• Protection for the Oracle Listener
• Support for Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11g
• Standard or Enterprise versions supported.

Need a highly available Oracle database? Don't need the expense or complexity of Oracle RAC? Then LifeKeeper for Oracle is what you need. Combined with Oracle, SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Linux clustering software provides enterprises with a cost-effective solution for ensuring high availability of business-critical applications running on Oracle database servers. With intelligent failover and multiple fault-detection mechanisms for detecting and recovering from hardware, component or application faults, the SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux Oracle solution prevents system or application failures. Key features of the SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux Oracle solution include: an active/active configuration, which offers customers a higher return on investment by eliminating the need for idle backup servers; an easy-to-use, centralized Java GUI; and support for shared storage or data replication configurations.

The WebSphere MQ High Availability Solution: LifeKeeper

The LifeKeeper for Linux WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit provides a turnkey WebSphere high availability solution for MQ queues and queue managers.

SteelEye supports IBM's WebSphere MQ , which is a reliable message passing system for SOA and multipurpose data transport for an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

The LifeKeeper® for Linux WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit provides fault resilient protection for WebSphere MQ queue managers and queue manager storage locations. This kit enables a failure on a primary WebSphere MQ server or queue manager to be recovered on the primary server or a designated backup server without significant lost time or human intervention.

LifeKeeper can also protect Databases (DB2, Oracle, etc.) that are part of the total MQ solution.

If WebSphere MQ on Linux is part of your implementation or migration plans, LifeKeeper and WebSphere MQ can handle any of your High Availability concerns

LifeKeeper for Custom Applications

The LifeKeeper for Custom Applications provides a simple script based method to protect and monitor any application.

• Part of the Core LifeKeeper product
• Works with other kits (IP, File System, Data Replication, etc.) as part of a complete custom solution.
• Optional custom application monitoring
• Works with single or multi partition databases
• Can be used to extend functionality of other prebuilt kits (Oracle, DB2, NFS, Samba, etc.)
• Script Development can be in any scripting language (Korn Shell and Perl are common)

SteelEye's LifeKeeper® for Linux provides support for a wide range of applications and services. Even so, many implementers will need to protect custom applications or commercial applications where there is no pre-built kit. This is where the LifeKeeper for Custom Applications steps in. It provides an easy mechanism for plugging new or custom applications into a LifeKeeper High Availability cluster. Using simple scripting tools, practically any application can be made highly available. Scripts are typically written in either Korn Shell or Perl.

LifeKeeper for Custom Applications also works with the LifeKeeper GUI, so setup and configuration of custom applications is a snap. And once created, these custom kits can work in conjunction with other prebuilt Recovery Kits to build out full HA solutions. So you don't have to worry about shared file systems, IP addresses, or replicated data. The LifeKeeper framework and optional Recovery Kits will provide those kinds of services to your solution.

SteelEye also provides a sample custom application to support CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), so you have a example to work from.

Don't take a chance on not HA protecting your custom application; let LifeKeeper do the hard work for you!

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