SteelEye DataKeeper for Windows, a comprehensive data replication solution for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 that makes real-time data replication cost-effective and accessible to small to medium-sized businesses has been announced by a leading provider of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for multivendor IT infrastructures, SteelEye Technology Inc. (steeleye.com).

Featuring real-time CDP (continuous data protection) and extends Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering, SteelEye DataKeeper for Windows is a WAN-optimized data replication and disaster recovery solution. Yet powerful enough to accommodate the business continuity demands of larger enterprise and OEM markets, it is packaged and architected to fit the needs of small to medium-sized businesses. As they feared the degraded network performance and added expense of additional acceleration technologies required to operate these solutions efficiently, small to medium-sized businesses have shied away from data replication.

SteelEye DataKeeper for Windows, to ensure continuous availability of all the data, applications and servers within a company's network, provides:

    * to maintain efficient replication regardless of the application associated with the data, and to minimize the burden on system resources, it offers real-time, block-level data replication;
    * To ensure servers are in full-synch at all times, eliminating issues with in-use files, locked files, NTFS permissions and missing files, and affording systems administrators more options in prioritizing data protection and application performance it offers synchronous and asynchronous replication;
    * to efficiently maximize existing WAN connections, without costly hardware-based WAN accelerators it offers WAN optimization;
    * to the exact moment prior to data corruption or loss it offers true CDP to let IT and systems personnel rewind a data set;
    * to eliminate single points of failure and maintain geographically dispersed clusters and hybrid high-availability/disaster-recovery configurations it offers Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering support.

Principal product unit manager for Failover Clustering at Microsoft Corp, Kurt Friedrich declared: "Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters configured as multi-site clusters provide a great platform for disaster recovery systems." He adds: "SteelEye DataKeeper for Windows provides customers with a cost-effective solution to provide the required data replication function by providing either asynchronous or synchronous data replication to a remote recovery site."

SteelEye DataKeeper meets the growing demand for new types of data replication solutions. According to a recent IDC report (1), last year the highest annual growth in the data replication market came from host-based methods, which grew more than 25% year-over-year and network- and appliance-based replication approaches, which grew more than 20% year-over-year.

Additional features and functions of DataKeeper for Windows provide flexibility and guard against data losses sustained during planned or unplanned system downtime. The product operates as a stand-alone data replication solution or as a combined offering with high-availability clustering.