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SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- SteelEye(TM) Technology Inc., a leading provider of cost-effective high availability clustering software for Linux, Windows and Solaris environments, today announced general availability of the latest release of its LifeKeeper(R) for Linux 4.0 product. The new release continues to raise the bar on enterprise Linux clustering with its extreme ease of use features, management templates as well as plug-and-play integration that is consistent across Intel-based servers running a variety of Linux distributions as well as Windows and Solaris operating platforms. The new features include: -- Scalability to 32-node clusters, with support for Intel-based IA-32 and IA-64 servers; -- Compatibility with most Linux distributions based on 2.2 or 2.4 kernels, including Red Hat 7.1, Caldera eServer 2.3.1, SuSE 7.2 and Miracle Linux; -- Flexibility of cluster-wide storage, with support for Network Attached Storage (NAS), Fibre-based Storage Area Networks (SAN) as well as replicated data, shared SCSI or NFS servers; -- Manageability through intuitive cluster-wide management templates and action wizards that substantially reduce IT management and operations costs; -- Integration with IBM's DB2 Universal Database WE, EE and EEE as well as Oracle and other enterprise databases, applications, mail and web servers. "What impressed me about LifeKeeper was the ease of installation," says Scott Parmley, Web Developer/Designer for Petroleum Place, "as both a systems administrator and developer, I didn't have to dedicate my entire time to this project. The solution was up and running in no time. After the installation, LifeKeeper detected and recovered problems that we didn't even know had happened. It is truly an intelligent solution." "SteelEye and IBM are seeing the same trend which is that more and more customers are using Linux for business-critical applications," said Scott Handy, Director, Linux Solutions Marketing, IBM Software. "Combining SteelEye's easy-to-use Linux application recovery kit for IBM's DB2 Universal Database, the most scalable database on Linux, makes a lot of sense. It gives these business customers the highly available solution their mission-critical applications need without the complexities of knowing the ins-and-outs of state-of-the-art cluster configuration." LifeKeeper's IBM DB2 Application Recovery Kit (ARK) uniquely extends intelligent failover and multiple fault-detection mechanisms to DB2 Universal Database environments running WE, EE or EEE database configurations. These integrated features prevent system or application-level failures as well as leverage LifeKeeper's latest support for Linux raw I/O to provide maximum uptime in high-performance database environments. "SteelEye's latest LifeKeeper delivers the uptime protection required by enterprises to achieve maximum service levels for their business-critical applications," said Boris Geller, Vice President of Marketing at SteelEye. "LifeKeeper provides unprecedented ease of use, reduces IT operations and management costs, and supports a wide range of applications, servers and storage configurations. These features, combined with our ability to globally deliver reliable and affordable solutions, are extremely important to our customers, especially in current economic conditions." LifeKeeper's new support for Network Attached Storage (NAS) as well as support for Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Networks (SAN) further expand cluster-wide storage options by going beyond direct-attached shared SCSI or replicated storage. LifeKeeper's NAS support easily provides protection of data that resides on remote NAS storage servers and further increases the reliability of business-critical data access. An easy and affordable high availability clustering solution that ensures continuous uptime of critical business applications, servers, and data, LifeKeeper offers unprecedented flexibility through its scalability, plug-and-play integration and intuitive Java GUI. LifeKeeper supports 32-node cluster configurations, including cascading failover and recovery across multiple servers, enabling IT to automatically spread application workloads across multiple back-up servers in the event of a failure. LifeKeeper's Software Development Kit (SDK) allows third parties to build their own recovery kits for custom applications that easily integrate with the management GUI. For further information visit www.steeleye.com