SteelEye® and Lucid8® to Deliver First Integrated Solution For High Availability and Data Integrity Protection of Exchange Server

Exchange Connections 2003, Orlando, Florida - November 3, 2003 SteelEye Technology® Inc., a leading provider of proven enterprise IT reliability solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery, and Lucid8® Information Services, LLC, the creators of GOexchange®, the leading solution for Automated Exchange Server maintenance and data recovery, today announced a technology and business partnership that will enable users of Microsoft Exchange Server to achieve significantly increased levels of application availability and end-user productivity.

Today, two of the most significant and interrelated causes of unplanned Exchange Server downtime are the management and availability of complex hardware and software infrastructure and the processes required to prevent and resolve outages caused by data corruption. For many organizations, managing, monitoring, resolving, and recovering from downtime caused by infrastructure and data corruption issues is a manual and lengthy process that directly impacts business operations and the productivity of users.

"For most organizations, Exchange has become mission critical and ensuring its high availability is a multi-faceted, complex task", said Paul Adams, President and CEO of SteelEye Technology. "We are delighted to partner with Lucid8. GOexchange, like LifeKeeper, is best of breed technology, and together, are highly complementary and synergistic in enabling users to maximize the value of their investments in Exchange Server, and most importantly, keeping their end-users productive."

"Exchange Server is a world-class application, however, its availability is dependent upon the health and stability of the databases and infrastructure upon which it is running", said Troy Werelius, President and CEO of Lucid8. "With GOexchange, users can be assured of the health, stability, and integrity of their Exchange mailstores at all times, and when combined with LifeKeeper, can integrate availability monitoring and management protection into their overall strategy for achieving the highest level of Exchange Server availability."

SteelEye and Lucid8 will be discussing their partnership and giving live demonstrations of their solutions, at this week's Exchange Connections conference, in booths #409 and #407 respectively.

The planned integration between SteelEye LifeKeeper for Exchange Server 2003 and GOexchange will provide users with an industry-first solution for managing and monitoring the health of the entire Exchange environment, from servers and storage to data integrity and client connectivity. The application availability monitoring and management capabilities of SteelEye LifeKeeper, coupled with the data integrity monitoring and resolution capabilities of GOexchange, will combine to provide automated resolution of issues related to failed components and data corruption, while minimizing the impact on end users.

About SteelEye LifeKeeper for Exchange Server 2003 SteelEye LifeKeeper for Exchange Server 2003 is a modular, scalable solution for data protection, high availability clustering, and disaster recovery of Exchange Server. LifeKeeper enables IT managers to implement variable and scalable levels of high availability protection according to their high availability requirements and budgetary objectives over time. SteelEye LifeKeeper for Exchange Server is proven, easy to install, and cost effective. With LifeKeeper, users are able to achieve high availability of Exchange Server without requiring the additional cost and complexity of advanced editions of the operating system, Exchange Server Enterprise edition, or shared storage technology. Today, LifeKeeper is the only available solution to provide comprehensive high availability clustering and wide area data replication for disaster recovery in a single solution.

About GOexchange for Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003 GOexchange, the "Automated Maintenance Solution for Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003", is the only available proven and comprehensive maintenance solution that prevents disasters, minimizes unplanned downtime, repairs problems, accelerates performance, increases the stability of Exchange, and reduces the average message store by 30-55%. GOexchange is easy to use, cost effective, and can quickly address the demands of even the most dynamic IT environments with its centralized management console and robust architecture capable of scaling to hundreds of servers. With its built-in expert knowledge for Exchange, IT managers can easily configure, manage, schedule, and review preventive maintenance for all Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003 servers within an organization.

Further Information For more information about SteelEye LifeKeeper go to www.steeleye.com

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