Secure Dog Hosting Guarantees 100 Percent Uptime with VERITAS Backup and Recovery Solutions

Leading provider of secure hosting for government agencies uses VERITAS to deliver utility-grade IT services to its customers

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Wednesday, July 14, 2004; 12:00 AM

Washington D.C.-VERITAS VISIONTM for Government - July 14, 2004 - VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS) today announced that Secure Dog Hosting Inc., a leading provider of secure hosting services for Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, is using VERITAS backup and recovery solutions to enable them to deliver hosting services based on a utility computing model—providing clearly defined service levels to customers at the lowest possible cost. VERITAS also helps Secure Dog Hosting offer its services with a 100 percent uptime agreement for government customers, enabling them to comply with rigorous government regulations.

Secure Dog Hosting has been certified by the DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP), which allows the company to provide hosting services for numerous DoD agencies with enhanced security requirements. Secure Dog Hosting's service-level agreements offer 100 percent availability and the company's infrastructure is routinely assessed by third-party security engineers to ensure that security policies meet government requirements.

"For our DoD customers, accessibility and protection of data is mission critical. Since implementing VERITAS solutions, Secure Dog Hosting has not had a failure or missed a scheduled backup," says John McClure, chief technology officer for Secure Dog Hosting. "VERITAS backup and recovery solutions allow us to give our customers peace of mind that their data is safe, while simplifying our own IT management processes and infrastructure."

VERITAS' support for heterogeneous environments is imperative to Secure Dog Hosting, whose customers require a wide variety of hardware, applications and operating systems. VERITAS NetBackup™ software delivers comprehensive data protection for the company's IT environment, comprised of IBM, Sun, Oracle, Microsoft and Linux systems.

The company also uses VERITAS Bare Metal Restore™ disaster recovery software to automate and streamline the server recovery process, providing continuity of operations—a critical capability for its DoD customers. The software automates rapid server recovery across Secure Dog Hosting's heterogeneous environment, helping to ensure that customer data is always available regardless of platform.

"Because we have a heterogeneous IT environment, it is unrealistic to always use the same hardware for backup and recovery," says McClure. "By allowing us to perform data recoveries onto dissimilar hardware, VERITAS Bare Metal Restore software gives us a huge competitive advantage. We're able to seamlessly recover any client during times of planned or unplanned downtime, without any additional effort."

About Secure Dog Hosting
Secure Dog Hosting provides secure and highly reliable hosting services. The company is routinely assessed by third party security engineers to ensure that its security policies are industry grade. Secure Dog Hosting has been certified by the DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP), allowing them to provide hosting services for numerous DoD agencies with enhanced security requirements. For more information, please visit www.securedog.com.

About VERITAS Software
VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the world, is a leading provider of software to enable utility computing. In a utility computing model, IT resources are aligned with business needs and business applications are delivered with optimal performance and availability on top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing hardware and labor costs. With 2003 revenues of $1.75 billion, VERITAS delivers products for data protection, storage & server management, high availability and application performance management that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. More information about VERITAS Software can be found at www.veritas.com.

For More Information Contact: Press Contacts: Gina Sheibley , Corporate Communications , VERITAS Software (650) 527-2589 , gina.sheibley@veritas.com Andrew McCarthy , Corporate Communications , VERITAS Software (650) 527-3183 , andrew.mccarthy@veritas.com Terri Phifer , Corporate Communications , Secure Dog Hosting , phifert@secdog.com Investor Contact: Marilyn Mora , VERITAS Software (650) 527-3343 , marilyn.mora@veritas.com Copyright © 2004 VERITAS Software Corporation. All rights reserved. VERITAS, the VERITAS Logo, Bare Metal Restore, NetBackup, and VERITAS VISION are trademarks or registered trademarks of VERITAS Software Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.