Digital Impact Selects VERITAS OpForce Software to Automate and Streamline Server Provisioning.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Rapid Deployment of Server Resources Key to Successful Email Marketing Campaigns VERITAS Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS VRTS Veritas Software (stock symbol) VRTS Verification Requirements Tracking System ) today announced that Digital Impact, a leading provider of integrated digital marketing solutions for Global 2000 enterprises, has selected VERITAS OpForce(TM) software to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. server management and provisioning. Silicon Valley-based Digital Impact depends on its sophisticated IT infrastructure, comprised of hundreds of servers, to support email campaigns for clients such as Marriott Marriott has several meanings:
Using VERITAS OpForce software, Digital Impact will have the capability to easily identify under-utilized servers and deploy them into environments where they are needed to support specific customer marketing campaigns. VERITAS OpForce software will help the company create a flexible pool of server assets that can easily support extreme fluctuations in email activity using Digital Impact's existing hardware and software infrastructure. This will allow Digital Impact to support clients more effectively utilizing fewer resources -- helping to drive down hardware and labor costs while maintaining the company's high levels of customer satisfaction. "The nature of our business requires us to be quick and flexible, scaling up or scaling down IT resources based on our customers' changing requirements. VERITAS OpForce will help us to rapidly track and allocate server resources, which is essential for delivering fast, efficient email campaigns for our clients," said Michael Spitz spitz Any of several northern dogs, including the chow chow, Pomeranian, and Samoyed, characterized by a dense, long coat, erect pointed ears, and a tail that curves over the back. In the U.S. , manager of strategic operations at Digital Impact. Digital Impact's heterogeneous Not the same. Contrast with homogeneous. heterogeneous - Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of distributed systems that may be running different operating systems or network protocols (a heterogeneous network). technology environment includes hardware and software from a variety of vendors, including Sun, Hitachi and Oracle. The company chose VERITAS software because it can meet Digital Impact's implementation, performance and support needs for its multi-vendor environment. "Because VERITAS' software is heterogeneous, it will allow us to maximize our current hardware investment and provide flexibility in the future," Spitz continued. "Bottom line, VERITAS offers lasting value to our business." About VERITAS OpForce VERITAS OpForce software dramatically increases the utilization of existing IT environments by intelligently provisioning resources such as servers across computer networks. By deploying VERITAS OpForce 3.2, customers can reduce the standard server deployment in a common scenario of preparing and provisioning 30 servers from more than 200 hours to less than 15 hours. Automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. server provisioning is one of the key VERITAS software building blocks to enable utility computing (1) Pay-per-usage processing provided by a service organization that uses its own computers and facilities. Customers access the computers via a private network or over the Internet and are charged according to how much computing time they use, such as CPU seconds, minutes or hours. , helping customers streamline their IT operations, provide higher levels of IT services and increase the flexibility of their server infrastructures. 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 computing - computer infrastructure, minimizing hardware and labor costs. With 2003 revenues of $1.75 billion, VERITAS delivers products for data protection, storage & server management, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. 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. Copyright (C) 2004 VERITAS Software Corporation. All rights reserved. VERITAS, the VERITAS Logo, and OpForce 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. |
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