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TMCNet: SteelEye Technology: SteelEye goes from strength to strength as Citrix reseller 360is joins force

[September 30, 2008]

SteelEye Technology: SteelEye goes from strength to strength as Citrix reseller 360is joins force

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RDATE:30092008

London -- Users of virtual machines that run Citrix XenServer can now
enjoy the reassurance of complete business continuity and disaster
recovery, thanks to an agreement with UK based SteelEye Technology
partner 360is.

SteelEye Technology pioneers new standards of business continuity and
disaster recovery services that can run on diverse, multi-vendor IT
infrastructures. SteelEye offers comprehensive disaster protection of
virtual machines running on Citrix XenServer, through its SteelEye
Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer.

Now SteelEye Technology has strengthened its UK presence even further
with the recruitment of a key Citrix partner, 360is, to its channel. As
one of Citrix's Gold partners, 360is is one of the success stories of
this new model for delivering computer services. It offers
virtualisation services for a variety of global enterprises, whose
entire success hinges on the competitive advantage that 360is offers.
With clients as demanding as Ryan Air, BT and Credit Suisse, 360is has
become Citrix'spremier partner and has a unique understanding of the
challenges of delivering fault proof services for virtual machines on
the XenServer platform.

"As virtualisation becomes mainstream, companies have become
increasingly reliant on virtualised IT services, so the business
continuity and disaster recovery elements have become an imperative,"
explains Robert Gilson, 360is managing director. "There is a massive
demand for supported solutions. SteelEye combined with Citrix XenServer
has the capability to offer the multi site coverage many enterprises
are in need of. SteelEye complements the feature set and re-enforces
the disaster recovery requirements that enterprises are crying out for."

SteelEye's Protection Suite, in conjunction with XenServer, creates a
great combination of fluidity and strength. This is tremendously
reassuring in today's working environment, where replication capability
is integral to business continuity. SteelEye Protection Suite for
XenServer offers real time LAN and WAN replication of XenServer virtual
machines.

"The flexibility and ease-of-use in SteelEye Protection Suite
exemplifies our mission to strip the complexity from today's IT
infrastructure," said Bob Williamson, Senior VP Product Management and
Product Marketing of SteelEye.

The partnership has important consequences for IT users. It means that,
as virtualisation becomes increasingly central to the IT strategies of
corporate Britain, adding the ability to recover from planned and
unplanned downtime creates an industrial-strength robustness for any
virtualised environment.

The virtualisation market will grow from $1.8 billion in 2007 to $5.3
billion in 2012, according to market research firm IDC. John Humphreys,
Program Vice President of IDC's Enterprise Platform Group and the head
of the firm's Enterprise Virtualisation Software Program, says disaster
recovery will be the key issue that affects the success of this growing
ecosystem.

"Virtualisation helps organisations cope with ever-increasing disaster
recovery needs,"said Humphreys. "SteelEye is moving aggressively,
building on a strong reputation in the data replication space and
leveraging their Protection Suite software to further extend the
XenServer market."

SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer protects vital company
information by replicating XenServer virtual machines across any LAN or
WAN. Better still, it can do this in real time. It was created in order
to protect companies that migrate critical enterprise applications to
XenServer virtual machines. SteelEye Protection Suite raises the level
of protection against data centre outages, safeguarding business
continuity.

Citrix XenServer has become an increasingly popular IT platform, as it
maximises the cost benefits of virtualisation through server
consolidation. SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer offers
cast iron insurance against unplanned downtime of a XenServer
deployment.

Mr. Williamson explained that the migration of enterprise applications
to virtual environments could only continue apace through collaboration
with companies like Citrix. "We're helping customers of all sizes
ensure their data is safe and their business operations run
uninterrupted," he said.

Simon Crosby, CTO of Virtualisation and Management at Citrix, said,
"SteelEye Protection Suite extends our XenServer platform by adding
best-in-class disaster recovery capabilities to XenServer. This
integrated solution provides more value for customers at an unbeatable
price, which will help accelerate the broader adoption of
virtualisation among enterprise customers of all sizes."

SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer is available now.

About 360is

360is are a first class independent provider of Virtualization and
Information Security

professional services and project management to the public and private
sector. We enable our clients to secure their valuable data, meet
compliance standards, and maintain customer confidence. Our consultants
can help you reduce your exposure to global threats while capitalising
on business opportunities, and protecting employees and assets. Visit
our website at http://www.360is.com/datacenterservices.htm

About SteelEye Technology, Inc.

SteelEye is the leading provider of data and application availability
management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery for
Windows, Linux and virtual platforms.

The SteelEye family of data replication, application protection,
high-availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions are priced
and architected to enable enterprises of all sizes to ensure continuous
availability of business-critical applications, servers and data.

To complement its software solutions, SteelEye also provides a full
range of high-availability consulting and professional services to
assist organisations with the assessment, design and implementation of
solutions for ensuring high availability within their environments. For
more information about SteelEye, please visit www.steeleye.com.

SteelEye is a wholly owned subsidiary of SIOS Technology, Inc., which
is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under 3744.

CONTACT: Greg Ewald, Media Contact, SteelEye Technology
e-mail: greg.ewald@steeleye.com
WWW: http://www.steeleye.com
Rose Ross (For SteelEye Technology), Omarketing
Tel: +44 (0)208 255 5225
e-mail: rose@omarketing.co.uk

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