SteelEye Technology Survey: C-Level Executives Prioritizing Business Continuity Protection

Top Corporate Executives Feel Threats to Business Continuity Are
on the Rise
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--SteelEye Technology, Inc., provider of award-winning data
replication and application protection solutions for Linux and
Windows, today released a preview of results from its annual SteelEye
Technology Business Continuity Index, a survey examining adoption
levels, best practices and attitudes regarding business continuity
among IT professionals and C-level executives. Top-level findings
revealed today showed that top executives feel threats to business
continuity are increasing, and as a result, business leaders are
placing an operational priority on assuring business continuity.

More than half of CEOs saw outages to key technology-enabled
services that extended longer than 24 hours as potentially fatal to
their organizations, pointing at financial systems and customer
support as most critical. 87% of surveyed C-level executives reported
they felt the average IT organization faces the same or more threats
to business continuity than it did a year previous, with 63%
indicating their belief that more threats abound.

The C-suite's level of concern was also reflected in answers to
another question in the survey, to which 81% of IT managers responded
that they felt their CEOs considered business continuity a top
priority. Although a slightly narrower majority, two-thirds (66%)
reported that they felt their CEOs understood what IT teams needed in
order to assure business continuity.

The survey's results also indicate that C-level prioritization of
business continuity was predictive of the degree to which the
organization is prepared to assure it. Organizations reporting high
C-level prioritization of business continuity were more likely to have
adopted business continuity measures such as remote disaster recovery
sites and automated application recovery solutions. Not surprisingly,
organizations taking such measures felt more prepared to avoid
downtime than a year previous.

Similarly, while more than 40% of all respondents said they felt
that the average IT organization is more prepared for threats to
business continuity than it was a year ago, this number dropped to
less than 28% among respondents who reported their CEOs haven't
prioritized business continuity assurance.

"Today's CEOs are clearly aware of the degree to which their
businesses depend on technology, and they're concerned about the
disasters that could occur if a key service stops running," noted Bob
Williamson, Vice President for SteelEye Technology. "What's also
evident from this survey is that C-level priorities make a clear
difference in how seriously IT takes business continuity assurance."

In addition to augmenting their business continuity plans with
offsite replication and application recovery capabilities, additional
survey results released earlier this year suggested that organizations
are implementing automated solutions. 79% of respondents said they are
focusing on adding technology more than IT personnel resource in their
efforts to maintain high availability.

SteelEye's flagship product, LifeKeeper, provides LAN and
WAN-based, end-to-end protection of critical resources and enables
companies of all sizes to ensure continuous availability of
business-critical applications, servers and data. LifeKeeper Data
Replication is an industry-proven solution on Windows and Linux that
provides dynamic, disk-level replication of data across local and wide
area networks. Viewed by industry experts as best in class, LifeKeeper
most recently garnered LinuxWorld's 2007 Product Excellence Award for
Best Clustering Solution for its suite for VMWare Infrastructure 3.

Note to editors:

Media interested in reviewing additional statistics, including
findings segmented by geography, industry and organization size should
contact Vice President Bob Williamson at +1 843 532 0355, or
bob.williamson@steeleye.com

About SteelEye Technology, Inc.

SteelEye is the leading provider of data and application
availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster
recovery for Linux and Windows.

The SteelEye family of data replication, high availability
clustering and disaster recovery solutions are priced and architected
to enable enterprises of all sizes to ensure continuous availability
of business-critical applications, servers and data.

To complement its software solutions, SteelEye also provides a
full range of high availability consulting and professional services
to assist organizations with the assessment, design and implementation
of solutions for ensuring High Availability within their environments.

SteelEye is a subsidiary of SIOS Technology, Inc.

SteelEye Technology
Bob Williamson, 843-532-0355
Bob.Williamson@steeleye.com
or
LEWIS PR
Ian Lipner, 202-349-3866
ianl@lewispr.com

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