SteelEye Technology, a provider of data protection and application availability solutions for Linux and Windows, announced that it has joined the XenSource Partner Program as a charter member and Premier Partner.

The new partnership will grant SteelEye access to technical information and resources needed to enable its suite of high availability clustering, data replication and disaster recovery solutions for the new XenEnterprise(TM) platform. SteelEye also acknowledges its commitment to provide support for Xen-based environments within its LifeKeeper Protection Suite on both Linux and Windows.

With LifeKeeper, users can cluster together physical and virtual servers in any combination to build cost-effective configurations which optimize application and data availability. Critical resources are monitored and automatically migrated among physical and virtual servers as needed to ensure that they are always available. With the ability to run in either shared storage or replicated data clusters and its support for both Linux and Windows platforms, LifeKeeper is the industry's most flexible HA clustering solution.

"SteelEye is a key player in high availability solutions, and we are pleased to be partnering with them to bring LifeKeeper support to XenEnterprise," said Benn Schreiber, director of business development at XenSource. "Users of XenEnterprise can rest assured knowing that their business-critical applications and data will be fully protected by SteelEye LifeKeeper and SteelEye Data Replication."

"This alliance is a powerful combination," said Bob Williamson, Vice President of Products for SteelEye. "As a long-time supporter of the use of open source technologies for business-critical computing, we appreciate the focus and effort which XenSource has placed on bringing Xen to the enterprise. We will support that initiative by working closely together to ensure that the SteelEye family of products is available to support the use of Xen for enterprise deployments."