VERITAS Extends Storage Management Offerings

September 20, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - VERITAS Software Corporation (www.veritas.com) today extended its storage management offerings to include new features for IBM's UNIX operating system AIX. Today's AIX-based additions include 4.0 versions of VERITAS Storage Foundation™, VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC, VERITAS Storage Foundation for Databases (DB2 and Oracle), VERITAS Storage Foundation Cluster File System, VERITAS Cluster Server, and VERITAS Volume Replicator software.

According to Gartner's "Worldwide Server Market Ends 2003 With Strong Fourth Quarter", AIX was the fastest-growing UNIX operating system; in fact, AIX was the only UNIX operating system that grew revenue in 2003. With market-leading solutions for storage management, high availability and disaster recovery, VERITAS is enabling customers to maximize the price/performance, reliability, and manageability of their AIX environments.

"As data volumes grow, customers need to feel confident that they can effectively manage their storage environments while ensuring continuous availability of mission-critical data on multiple platforms," said Ray Paquet, Gartner Group. "Expanded platform support from software vendors who are providing heterogeneous solutions for storage management allow customers to maximize storage utilization and reduce overall costs."

VERITAS solutions offer unique benefits for customers running high-end databases across their IT environments. VERITAS Storage Foundation™ for Databases software provides performance and manageability that scales as customer IT environments and requirements evolve and expand. Customers running AIX can now provision or migrate their critical data over time to the appropriate class of storage based on pre-defined attributes and values - without changing the way data is accessed by users or applications.
VERITAS Cluster Server protects mission critical applications and databases against downtime, whether planned or unplanned.

VERITAS Cluster Server is the only solution that provides wide-area failover on AIX. This capability enables organizations to fail over an entire data center with a single click of a mouse ensuring business continuity of mission critical applications and databases.

VERITAS Volume Replicator reliably, efficiently and consistently mirrors data to remote locations over any IP network connection. Using VERITAS Volume Replicator, customers running AIX can utilize a flexible storage independent solution to deliver true disaster recovery when data currency and availability are paramount.

VERITAS delivers an innovative utility called Portable Data Containers, which dramatically simplifies the process of migrating data between the industry's leading operating systems. Additionally, customers can easily and quickly move their Oracle databases between leading operating systems.

"As customers deploy new applications and databases to support business critical services, VERITAS is continually working to provide customers with the advanced technology to simplify the management and improve the performance of complex storage systems," said Jose Iglesias, vice president, product management, 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.