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STEELEYE SIGNS DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH DIGITAL CONTROLS TO OFFER HIGH AVAILABILITY SOLUTIONS ON THE WINDOWS NT PLATFORM
SteelEyes™ Feature-Rich LifeKeeper® for NT Maintains the Highest Levels of
Availability for Business-Critical Applications
Running on Microsoft Windows NT® Servers
Mountain View, CA and DAYTON, OH October 20, 2000 SteelEye Technology Inc., a leading provider of reliability platforms for eBusiness
applications, and Digital Controls Corporation, a technology services and software company with over 30 years of experience in providing technology infrastructure solutions, announced today a strategic distribution
partnership. The agreement enables Digital Controls to offer SteelEyes LifeKeeper for Windows NT reliability software solution as part of its SureNet™ family of infrastructure services to mid-tier customers
and institutions requiring 24x7x365 availability of eBusiness applications and data residing on Windows NT servers."We are extremely excited about becoming SteelEyes worldwide partner responsible for
supporting and implementing SteelEye's LifeKeeper for NT as well as LifeKeeper for MP-RAS," said Michael L. Denny, CEO of Digital Controls. "Our customers depend on Digital Controls for end-to-end
technical solutions. Our partnership with SteelEye allows us to provide world-class high availability for open systems. This is a critical need for our customers, especially with their Internet-based applications.
SteelEye is a world-class provider of high availability and coupled with Digital Controls' SureNet services and support, creates a tremendous solution that our customers are asking for."With more than 30 years
of experience in providing technology solutions, professional services and customer care, Digital Controls has grown its SureNet family of infrastructure services into a comprehensive suite that extends the
capabilities of IT organizations around the world. Working with SteelEye, Digital Controls will enhance SureNets scope of high availability solutions by utilizing LifeKeeper for NT. For those customers that have
implemented NCR systems, Digital Controls will also offer SteelEyes high availability solution for UNIX. "Were pleased to sign Digital Controls as a worldwide distribution partner. They offer effective and
practical solutions and services that are a natural fit for our LifeKeeper product line," said Jim Fitzgerald, president and CEO of SteelEye. "With an increasing number of Internet-based applications being
deployed on Windows NT, the ability to maintain continuous uptime becomes an extremely high priority for IT organizations. Our partnership with Digital Controls will provide customers with a reliable clustering
framework for meeting the most stringent performance requirements of their business-critical applications running on Windows NT, while keeping eBusiness computing costs to a minimum."SteelEyes LifeKeeper for
NT maintains the high availability of clustered NT systems by monitoring system and application health, maintaining client connectivity and providing uninterrupted data access regardless of where clients reside - on
the corporate Internet, intranet or extranet. To enable automatic system and application recovery if a system goes down, LifeKeeper allows applications to failover to other servers in the cluster. This helps
LifeKeeper minimize the risk of a single point of failure and allows NT systems to meet the stringent availability requirements of mission-critical operations by creating a fault resilient environment
ABOUT DIGITAL CONTROLS
Digital Controls serves its customers through four divisions: The Technology Solutions Group (TSG), DigitalBUYDirect™, e-solutions@work™ and Plus Technologies™. The Technology Solutions Group of Digital Controls provides networking and computing infrastructure solutions for the IT community and focuses on the mid-tier business market. DigitalBUYDirect is an Internet-based procurement and purchasing service for Digital Controls customers. Through either .com or 1-800 or both, our customers create their own buying "experience" for buying the IT products and supplies needed to run their day-to-day operations. e-solutions@work is a full service Internet Solutions provider. Their mission is to provide Internet-based solutions to the mid-tier business market that work for the customer. Plus Technologies is a developer of software solutions for the commercial marketplace. Plus Technologies delivers output from business applications (such as popular ERP applications like SAP™ R/3© and Oracle™) across multi-platform networks. Current offerings include products in Output Management, Print and View Management, UNIX-NT Print Connectivity, Intelligent Report Distribution, Print Queue Management and Electronic Forms.Current offerings include products in Output Management, Print and View Management, UNIX-NT Print Connectivity, Intelligent Report Distribution, Print Queue Management and Electronic Forms.
About SteelEye Technology Inc
.SteelEye Technology Inc. provides reliability platforms for enterprise eCommerce applications. SteelEye Technologys flagship product,
LifeKeeper, has been installed in multi-platform environments at hundreds of enterprise servers at Fortune 500 companies, including Chase Manhattan Bank and AT&T Corporation. The company is privately held and
has received venture financing from Venrock Associates, Intel Corp. and Massey Burch Capital Corp. SteelEye Technology Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and is on the Web at www.steeleye.com.
Digital Controls Contact: Joel Vedder, VP of Corporate Marketing, Digital Controls 305 S. Pioneer Blvd, Springboro, OH 45066
513-746-8118 ext. 2101 513-743-8575 fax [email protected]
Steeleye Contact: Lonnie Sue Sutton SteelEye Technology Inc. (650) 237-2412 [email protected]
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