Aug-28-2005

STEELEYE COMPETENCE AND SUPPORT CENTER FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY CLUSTERING SOLUTIONS OPENED

Nordicmind Ltd in cooperation with SteelEye Technology® Inc has established a SteelEye Competence and Support Center in Helsinki serving Scandinavia, Baltic countries and CIS. Nordicmind will provide end-user customers and business partners with local, multi-language access to Level One technical support for SteelEye LifeKeeper solutions. In addition to English, support will be provided in Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian languages.

"This territory is a very important growth market for SteelEye, and the satisfaction of customers and success of our business partners have been the keys to enabling our expansion in the region," said John Banfield, EMEA Director, SteelEye Technology Inc. "With this announcement, any customer in the region will have direct access to technical support services and systems. To make this possible, we are delighted to partner with Nordicmind, which has proven its expertise in SteelEye solutions with numerous customer successes.”

"Nordicmind has been a value added distributor and support partner of SteelEye for many years," said Marko Lehtimaki, Director of Business Development, Nordicmind Ltd. "We are excited to extend our relationship with SteelEye to provide our skills and expertise in LifeKeeper and IT continuity solutions to all customers and business partners throughout our operating territory."

The award winning SteelEye LifeKeeper family of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions delivers easy-to-implement, enterprise-grade availability to industry-standard Linux and Windows environments with uniquely scalable integrated products for data protection, high availability clustering, and wide-area disaster recovery of business-critical Windows and Linux applications. LifeKeeper for Linux v5 was nominated the best high availability clustering solution for Linux at Linuxworld in San Francisco, August 2005.

About The SteelEye Competence And Support Center

The SteelEye Competence and Support Center provides SteelEye customers and business partners easy, multi-language access to professionals with significant technical expertise in SteelEye LifeKeeper solutions. All support services are integrated within the worldwide SteelEye Technical Support program which provides local access to a shared knowledge base, automated request tracking, and direct escalation into SteelEye Level Two support as necessary.

Scandinavia and Baltic countries include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. ”CIS” (Commonwealth of Independent States) include: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Hours of operation are 08:00 to 18:00 hours Central Europe Time, Monday through Friday (excluding national holidays). After-hours support for emergency requirements is provided 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

For more information contact Nordicmind: lifekeeper@nordicmind.com