SteelEye Technology, Inc. (www.steeleye.com), a leading provider of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for multi-vendor IT infrastructures, and Global Technical Systems (GTS, www.gtshq.com), the Common Processing System (CPS) Prime Contractor, today announced their partnership to deliver a highly available infrastructure to support the U.S. Navy’s new CPS. In this partnership, SteelEye Protection Suite (SPS) for Linux Multi-Site Cluster Edition (SLMSCE) will ensure the continuous availability of host software applications designed to support the Navy’s combat systems across its entire fleet.
The new CPS provides a processing system that supports the Navy’s planned implementation of Open Architecture (OA) for naval combat systems. CPS will be designed around commercially available hardware and software, including computer processing and memory, data storage and extraction and I/O interfaces that will support host software applications of Navy combat systems running on Red Hat Linux. GTS CPS software partner, Northrop Grumman (NGC www.northropgrumman.com), worked side by side with GTS on the selection of SteelEye Protection Suite.
As the only solution for Linux that meets the Navy’s requirements for achieving multi-site cluster configurations and enabling cascading multiple node failover, SLMSCE was selected to monitor and protect the Navy’s IBM BladeCenter BCHT infrastructure against planned and unplanned network downtime. With the ability to combine the robustness of a classic, shared storage cluster with efficient, block-level data replication to a disaster recovery site, SLMSCE also enables automatic replication redirection to deliver comprehensive disaster recovery protection for the Navy’s combat systems.
“With its reputation as the gold standard in high availability for the Linux platform, SteelEye seemed like a natural selection for meeting the high standards and critical requirements of the U.S. Navy,” said GTS Chief Executive Officer Terry Spitzer. “Having a depth of experience in working with the government on a variety of contracts, we look forward to teaming up with SteelEye and providing what will be the first of new technology implementations scheduled to move to open architecture.”
”The selection of SteelEye to support the CPS project with the U.S. Navy is a testament to the company’s reputation for providing flexible disaster recovery solutions to protect the mission-critical applications and systems of large organizations and enterprises,” said SteelEye President and CEO Nobuo Kita. “By ensuring the continuous availability of the Navy’s OA combat systems, SteelEye has enabled a significant advancement in technology, while contributing to the overall lifecycle cost effectiveness of the OA initiative.”
Implementation is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter and the solution will be configured by Virginia Beach, Va., – based GTS.
”As a leading alternative in reliable, flexible high availability clustering solutions for Linux, SPS for Linux Multi-Site Cluster Edition enables us to provide a disaster recovery infrastructure with the capability to support the critical weaponry of the U.S. Navy fleet,” said Craig Black, GTS program manager for the CPS project. ”The combination of our decade-long expertise in supporting the Navy’s Open Architecture strategy with SteelEye’s Protection Suite will enable us to deliver the hardware, installation and supplementary services to quickly and efficiently meet our timetable and provide the round-the-clock monitoring and protection required by the U.S. Navy.”
SteelEye’s LifeKeeper maintains the high availability of clustered Linux systems by monitoring system and application health, maintaining client connectivity and providing uninterrupted data access. For more information, visit www.steeleye.com.