Aug-8-2007 

SteelEye LifeKeeper Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure 3 Wins Best Clustering Solution Award - Awards Presented by LinuxWorld.com and IDG World Expo at LinuxWorld San Francisco 2007

SteelEye Technology®, a provider of award-winning data protection and high availability solutions for Linux and Windows, announced today that LinuxWorld.com, in conjunction with IDG World Expo, has named LifeKeeper Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure 3 as the Best Clustering Solution in its 2007 Product Excellence Awards.

The awards distinguish product and service innovation by recognizing companies that are advancing and improving existing products in the Linux and open source community.

LifeKeeper Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure 3, released in April this year, supports clustering together physical and virtual servers for high availability, continuous data protection and disaster recovery.

For companies who are using VMware Infrastructure 3 to take advantage of the significant cost and management benefits offered by server consolidation, ensuring availability of the virtualization environment is critical. With a complete solution to protect all components of VMware Infrastructure 3, the SteelEye Protection Suite complements the high availability technologies built into VMware Infrastructure 3 with VMware HA and VMware Consolidated Backup by delivering advanced data replication and high availability clustering technologies to monitor and automatically recover any piece of the VMware Infrastructure 3 environment.

"This accolade represents SteelEye's long-standing commitment to the Linux and open source community as well as to those many organizations operating in a virtualized environment," said Bob Williamson, Vice President Products for SteelEye Technology. "High availability clustering is critical to the success of virtualization implementations. This award is a true testament to that, and we are just thrilled that LifeKeeper Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure 3 has been selected as the best in this competitive arena."

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, taking place this week in San Francisco, is the premier event exclusively focused on Linux and open source solutions. IDG World Expo is the organization that produces this tradeshow and many other events for professionals who seek world-class education, peer-to-peer networking and one-stop comparison-shopping.