SIOS Technology Corp. is a

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based company focused on IT operations analytics

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cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

business continuity Business continuity may be defined as "the capability of an organization to continue the delivery of products or services at pre-defined acceptable levels following a disruptive incident", and business continuity planning (or business continuity ...

and disaster recovery for large enterprises. It is based in

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, and primarily assists large enterprises in adopting open, cloud computing technology.

History

SIOS Technology Inc. was founded in May 1997 in

and has led the development of

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and Web application software. Given its open source software experience, the company pushed for the early adoption of

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products in Japan. SIOS Technology Inc. provides SAN and SAN Less software products that protect applications from downtime and data loss in any combination of physical, virtual, and

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. Steeleye Technology was founded in December 1999 by Jim Fitzgerald, Sue Ellery and Jim Mason. The company acquired the LifeKeeper

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ing software from

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that year, and began targeting the fledgling Linux server community with the product in January 2000.

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’s

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created the LifeKeeper platform in the mid-1990s for high-availability of AT&T's Star Unix servers that operated the telecom company's phone switching technology. NCR took control of the LifeKeeper portfolio when AT&T spun off the company in 1997. The business focuses on software products that provide high availability and disaster protection for business critical applications. In 2003, the company introduced Life Keeper for

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. In 2008, the company announced Data Keeper data replication. The company expanded its presence into virtual environments with the introduction of business continuity for VMware in 2007

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and Microsoft's

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in 2008. In 2015,

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introduced a machine-learning based IT operations analytics platform for VMware environments. SIOS iQ was recognized at the 2017

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trade show. SIOS iQ was also named a silver winner in Most Innovative Product, Enterprise Category in Best in Biz Awards, 2016, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts. On December 5, 2017, SIOS partnered with VSTECS Holdings Ltd. a technology product and supply chain services platform in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The partnership enables VSTECs to provide comprehensive professional services and SAN less high availability clustering software to AWS customers throughout APAC.

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External links

Clustering For Mere Mortals Blog

Google Finance on SIOS

US SIOS Website

SIOS APAC multi-language portal

Linux Clustering Blogs
Software companies based in California Software companies established in 1997 Software companies of the United States

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