SteelEye and Winchester Systems Announce Alliance and Immediate Availability of Four-Node SCSI Clusters for Windows NT and Linux Servers

Business Wire, May 2, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2001

Seamless Integration of LifeKeeper(R) and FlashDisk(R)

OpenRAID(TM) Provides Economical and Scalable Reliability Platforms

for Business-Critical Applications on Intel Servers

SteelEye(TM) Technology Inc., a leading application reliability company, and Winchester Systems(R) Inc., a leading provider of high performance RAID, NAS and SAN storage, today announced immediate availability of integrated end-to-end reliability platforms targeted at Fortune 1000 customers with stringent requirements for high performance, utmost reliability and uptime as well as enterprise proven technology platforms for their business-critical applications. SteelEye and Winchester Systems also announced the two companies have entered into a reseller agreement for SteelEye's LifeKeeper Next Generation Enterprise Reliability(TM) platform. The agreement enables Winchester Systems to provide SteelEye's LifeKeeper high-availability clustering and mirroring products as part of Winchester Systems' FlashDisk enterprise storage solutions for Intel-based servers running Windows NT and Linux operating platforms.

SteelEye's LifeKeeper for NT and Linux is an enterprise-grade reliability clustering solution that ensures continuous availability of critical business applications, servers, and data. LifeKeeper for NT and Linux offers unprecedented configuration flexibility through support for 16 or more clustered servers, SCSI storage, and Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Networks (SANs) that are used with a variety of volume managers and file systems across JFS, NFS and database environments. Additionally, SteelEye provides data mirroring and replication options for NT and Linux environments to guarantee data access in non-shared storage architectures, providing a higher level of reliability by eliminating all single points of failure. LifeKeeper's plug-and-play integration and intuitive Java-based GUI enable IT managers to easily implement automated fault monitoring and recovery to ensure round-the-clock availability of applications and data, making LifeKeeper an ideal solution for e-commerce and other enterprise IT environments.

"Our customers in e-commerce, manufacturing, financial services and telecommunications industries run their business-critical applications around the clock. Integrating Winchester Systems' high performance FlashDisk OpenRAID disk arrays with SteelEye's LifeKeeper clustering software creates end-to-end reliability solutions that enterprises can depend on - and delivers the high performance and increased productivity that today's business-critical environments demand," said Joel Leider, CEO of Winchester Systems, "LifeKeeper's ability to support Windows NT and Linux environments, combined with scalability across SCSI, SAN and NAS environments provides a flexible and cost-effective offering for enterprise IT users."

"LifeKeeper offers the reliability and ease of use that enterprises require in today's economy," said Boris Geller, VP of Marketing at SteelEye Technology. "Our leadership in developing plug-and-play high availability and data protection solutions combined with Winchester Systems' enterprise-grade FlashDisk products creates a powerful reliability platform that delivers the best ROI for e-businesses."

Eliminating all single points of failure, SteelEye provides a myriad of pre-built Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) to support business-critical processes implemented across a range of commercial applications. As a result, e-businesses gain additional reliability and uptime protection through LifeKeeper's packaged support for the widest variety of applications and Web environments, including Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MySQL, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, MS IIS, Apache, MS Exchange, SAP R/3, Sendmail, Lotus Domino, Print Services and others. In addition, data-intensive environments relying on file systems gain increased data integrity through SteelEye's support for NTFS, NFS (Network File System) as well as JFS (journaling file systems) such as EXT3 and ReiserFS.

About Winchester Systems, Inc.

Winchester Systems provides SAN and NAS capable enterprise storage solutions including high performance SCSI and fibre channel RAID disk arrays, solid-state disks, tape backup devices and other high performance commercial and military grade storage for mid-range servers including UNIX and NT. Winchester Systems provides products that support today's most demanding industrial, government and commercial applications. For more information, contact Winchester Systems Inc., 149 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA 01803, USA. Toll Free: 800-325-3700, International: 781-265-0200, Fax: 781-265-0201. E-mail address: info@winsys.com, Web site: www.winsys.com.

About SteelEye Technology, Inc.

SteelEye Technology, Inc. is a leading application reliability company bringing high availability of applications, servers, and data to enterprises of all sizes through its Next Generation Enterprise Reliability(TM) platform. The company's LifeKeeper(R) software platform offers enterprise-grade reliability while simplifying system implementation through plug-and-play support for the widest range of applications, servers, storage options, and operating systems, including Linux, Windows NT, and Solaris. Fortune 1000 companies worldwide rely on LifeKeeper to keep thousands of servers up and running, including Chase Manhattan Bank and AT&T Corporation. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., SteelEye is privately held and has received venture financing from Venrock Associates, Intel Corp., and Massey Burch Capital Corp. For more information, please visit www.steeleye.com.