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About SIOS LifeKeeper
SIOS LifeKeeper for Windows is a comprehensive high-availability and disaster‑recovery solution that integrates failover clustering, continuous application monitoring, data replication, and flexible recovery policies to deliver 99.99 % uptime for Microsoft Windows Server environments—whether physical, virtual, cloud, hybrid‑cloud, or multicloud. Administrators can build SAN‑based or SANless clusters using a variety of storage types (direct‑attached SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or local disk) and choose between local or remote standby servers that support both high availability and disaster recovery. LifeKeeper offers real‑time block‑level replication via bundled DataKeeper, with WAN‑optimized performance that includes nine levels of compression, bandwidth throttling, and integrated WAN acceleration, ensuring efficient replication across cloud regions or over WAN without hardware accelerators.
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Founded: 1999
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