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SteelEye LifeKeeper Powers Hot Sites for Ntakt7

Hosted offering makes true business continuity protection easier and more affordable for SMBs

Palo Alto, CA - December 15, 2007

SteelEye Technology®, a provider of award-winning data replication, application monitoring and disaster recovery products for Linux, Windows and virtual server platforms, today announced a partnership with Ntakt7 that is already enabling hundreds of small and medium businesses (SMBs) to achieve enterprise-level business continuity protection. SteelEye LifeKeeper provides the key data replication and disaster recovery capabilities within Ntakt7’s “hot site” offering, a subscription-based, hosted service that provides off-site data replication. More than just data backups, hot sites are actual off-site copies of a technology service’s (i.e., email, CRM, etc.) production environment, including both data and the application that runs the service. Mirroring the entire production environment enables near-instant failover in the event of a disaster, instead of delays as long as a day due to data restoration times.

Headquartered in the Los Angeles area with offices in Chicago, Houston, Cincinnati and New York City, Ntakt7 provides businesses with a range of services for business continuity, disaster recovery, IT infrastructure optimization and hot site backup solutions. Ntakt7’s hosted disaster recovery services in particular have fueled its fast growth over the last several years by giving the SMB market a simpler and more affordable way to truly assure business continuity.

To build its hot site offering, Ntakt7 evaluated offerings from several other providers, including DoubleTake and Neverfail, but SteelEye’s suite of products clearly came out on top.

By leveraging SteelEye’s product suite and the company’s remote facility in Chicago and VMWare to create virtual machines, Ntakt7 has been able to make its hot site” available to customers on a monthly subscription basis, at price points to meet the SMB market’s needs.

In one case, Ntakt7 worked closely with a customer to protect around 100 servers. Upon analysis, the team determined that only 20 virtual machines would be necessary to protect the most critical data and applications. Ntakt7 identified the critical servers, virtualized them, and executed an initial synchronization. From there, the virtual machines were moved to Chicago and powered up. Secure links were established for communications before turning SteelEye’s products loose to begin live synchronization.

The SteelEye suite continually assures the primary servers and hot sites remain in perfect synchronization. Ntakt7 runs tests on the sites every six months for the customer, which has experienced no large- scale disasters but several instances of minor emergency where the hot site was invoked successfully.

The partnership between SteelEye and Ntakt7 has also yielded significant sales channels that complement each other’s businesses.

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“Through the partnership, we can also offer virtual hot sites for those companies that don’t have multiple, geographically dispersed data centers,” noted Bob Williamson, VP of Products for SteelEye. “At the same time, as Ntakt7 works with bigger companies that have their own data centers, they’re recommending SteelEye’s software as a key component to their strategies.”

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About Ntakt7
Ntakt7’s name is derived from its key mission – to help companies who rely on technology keep their businesses “intact” in the face of potential disaster. Headquartered in the Los Angeles area with offices in Chicago, Houston, Cincinnati and New York City, Ntakt7 provides services for business continuity, disaster recovery, IT infrastructure optimization and hot site backup solutions. Ntakt7 brings enterprise-class IT infrastructure options to small and medium businesses. By leveraging open source technologies, years of expertise, and the performance and cost benefits of virtual private servers Ntakt7 offers customers security, reliability and assurance in planning and implementing high-performance IT environments.

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

The SteelEye family of data replication, high availability 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 offers a full range of high availability consulting and professional services to assist organizations with the assessment, design and implementation of solutions for ensuring High Availability within their environments.

SteelEye is a subsidiary of SIOS Technology, Inc.

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SteelEye Technology, SteelEye and LifeKeeper are registered trademarks of SteelEye
Technology, Inc. All third party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Megan Grenter

LEWIS PR

202-349-3775

steeleye@lewispr.com

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