SteelEye Joins Citrix, Intros Disaster Recovery Protection

SteelEye Technology, Inc, a prominent player in the business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for multi-vendor IT infrastructures, has introduced the SteelEye Protection Suite, which provides disaster protection of virtual machines running on Citrix XenServer. Citrix XenServer offers server consolidation through virtualizing of application workloads and is widely used in datacenters for optimizing the use of computing resources thus leading to savings in cost and space.

SteelEye Protection Suite is a host-based, storage repository replication solution that integrates with XenMotion and XenCenter and maintains full disaster recovery protection even as VMs are moved within the server pool. The suite boasts of features such as true continuous data protection (CDP), change-only replication, integrated compression and a highly-optimized replication engine.

SteelEye has also joined the Citrix Ready Program and the Citrix Ready designation for SteelEye Protection Suite, which will help Citrix customers and channel partners to readily identify it as being a tested and proven solution in the Citrix environment. According to the report, Garrett Gafke, CEO and president of SteelEye, said, “The flexibility and ease-of-use in SteelEye Protection Suite is another clear example of our initiative to strip the complexity from today's IT infrastructure. The migration of enterprise applications to virtual environments continues at a rapid pace and through collaboration with companies like Citrix, we're helping customers of all sizes ensure their data is safe and their business operations run uninterrupted.”

“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 virtualization among enterprise customers of all sizes,” Simon Crosby, CTO of Virtualization and Management at Citrix, said in the report.

The virtualization market is rapidly expanding and market research firm IDC (News - Alert) expects it to reach $5.3 billion in 2012. John Humphreys, program vice president of IDC's Enterprise Platform Group and the head of the firm's Enterprise Virtualization Software Program, said, “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 has announced worldwide availability of the SteelEye Protection Suite through its network of VARs and OEM partners.