Feb, 2002 : BBDO Interactive Chooses SteelEye and IBM to Host Sites

📅 February 27, 2002 - IBM and SteelEye Technology Inc. (steeleye.com) todayannounced that BBDO Interactive (bbdo-interactive.de), a subsidiary of thethird largest advertising agency worldwide, has chosen Linux to develop andhost Web sites and applications for its clients. BBDO Interactive isdeploying SteelEye's LifeKeeper clustering software running on Linux-basedIBM eServer xSeries servers and IBM DB2 Enterprise Edition for Linux.

"BBDO Interactive provides complete Web hosting and infrastructure solutionsfor customers who require 99.99% and even higher level availability fortheir business-critical applications," said Andreas Walter, IT manager forBBDO Interactive. "The integrated IBM xSeries server solution and SteelEyeLifeKeeper clustering software offerings on Linux provide us with theability to rapidly deploy and easily manage our platforms, all with aprice/performance advantage that's unbeatable."
BBDO Interactive chose Germany-based Computer Concept to help deliverSteelEye's newly available reliability package on IBM's eServer xSeries withDB2 database software for its enterprise-grade deployments. BBDO Interactivesays it was looking for high degrees of flexibility, reliability and ease ofmanagement to keep systems and applications running. The company found theseintegrated IBM eServer xSeries and SteelEye's LifeKeeper offerings for Linuxdeliver the benefits it needs while providing a time-to-market advantage.
"Linux is playing a growing role as the operating system of choice forcustomers using DB2 and IBM xSeries servers. Customers like BBDO Interactiveare responding to the cost savings, performance and efficiency of Linux onIntel servers with the reliability of our database software," said RichardMichos, IBM vice president and business unit executive, Linux Servers. "Now,by working with SteelEye, we have demonstrated that our combined hardwareand software Linux solution provides a complete, easy to install solutionfor high availability customer requirements."
SteelEye also announced that it has attained IBM's ServerProven validationfor its LifeKeeper products running on IBM eServer xSeries servers withLinux and Microsoft Windows operating environments. With this announcement,customers can choose from a variety of packaged clustering solutions, whichsupport IBM DB2 Universal Database, SAP R/3, Oracle, and email messagingenvironments.
An high availability clustering solution designed to provide continuousuptime of business applications, servers and data, LifeKeeper uses anintuitive Java GUI. SteelEye also provides an upgrade path from localprotection to WAN-optimized disaster monitoring and recovery with itsDisaster Recovery Solution offerings.

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