Network Appliance and VERITAS Deliver Disk-Based Data Protection for Multi-Vendor Environments.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Highly Interoperable Solutions Make It Easier for Organizations to Protect, Access, and Recover Business-Critical Information Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything , Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP NTAP Network Appliance, Inc. (stock symbol) NTAP Never Take Another Puff NTAP National Track Analysis Program NTAP Notices to Airmen Publication NTAP Windows NT Application Processors NTAP Naval Training Acquisition Process ) and 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 the availability of new integrated disk-based data protection and data management solutions for multi-vendor environments. The new, highly interoperable solutions will enable enterprise customers to reduce backup times, simplify management and dramatically decrease disk consumption. The two companies have integrated the latest version of VERITAS NetBackup(TM) software (see related press release issued today) with NetApp(R) NearStore(R) storage systems and SnapVault(R) software to help customers significantly reduce their backup and restore times with disk-based protection, while still retaining data on tape for long-term archival and disaster recovery -- all through a common management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. . The joint solution will support all major operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , including: HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. and Novell NetWare (operating system, networking) Novell NetWare - Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. . The companies have also collaborated to integrate VERITAS Enterprise Vault Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV) is a product of Symantec Corporation and is one of the most widely-installed email archiving solutions[1][2]. Enterprise Vault software provides an archiving framework to enable the discovery of content held within email, file (TM) 6.0 software (see related press release issued today) with NetApp NearStore and SnapLock(TM) products to offer mutual customers powerful solutions to help customers cope with growing compliance and regulatory requirements by delivering solutions that allow them to transparently archive data and quickly retrieve specific information as needed as needed prn. See prn order. . "By bringing together these products, VERITAS and NetApp are working to turn innovation in data management into real-world solutions for customers," said Sanjay Poonen, vice president, Strategic Alliances, VERITAS Software. "This integration effort offers customers complete, end-to-end enterprise data management -- from Snapshot(TM) copies to long-term tape storage -- through a single, simplified console, resulting in fewer management headaches and ultimately lower cost of ownership." LandAmerica Financial Group LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: LFG) is the third largest title insurance group in the US. It was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia. , Inc. is a leading provider of title insurance and real estate transaction services globally and has been a NetApp NearStore and VERITAS NetBackup customer since 2002. LandAmerica's data protection solution provides backup-and-recovery for enterprise data associated with various applications that include Microsoft(R) Exchange Server and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. . "We have been using VERITAS NetBackup software along with NetApp NearStore to protect and restore our customers' business-critical data, such as customer title applications and commercial property assessments," said Jack Kinsey, enterprise services manager, LandAmerica Financial Group. "We selected the powerful NetApp and VERITAS combination to provide rapid data recovery and accommodate rapid data growth while lowering our storage total cost of ownership. We have consolidated and simplified the management of NetApp SnapVault(TM) software for our NearStore system by leveraging NetBackup software's integrated console. This allows us to streamline backup-and-restore processes by minimizing data volume backups and restoring point-in-time data snapshots." "VERITAS and NetApp are continuing their long-standing collaboration on solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of comprehensive enterprise data protection," said Patrick Rogers, vice president, Products and Partners at Network Appliance. "Tight integration between NetApp storage systems and software and VERITAS NetBackup and Enterprise Vault software provides customers with improved backup performance, rapid data recovery, reduced media management costs, and increased integration of backups into business processes. In addition, our joint solutions support backup from all the leading storage platforms, providing a truly complete offering." The deep collaboration between VERITAS and NetApp has yielded several next-generation capabilities for customers using solutions combining VERITAS NetBackup 6.0 and NetApp NearStore, such as: --Common management through the complete data protection process. VERITAS NetBackup 6.0 software will provide a single management interface for heterogeneous disk-to-disk-to-tape protection, including management of NetApp Snapshot, SnapRestore(R) and SnapVault(R) software for comprehensive storage system protection. Administrators can easily set policies for efficient data protection across the entire lifecycle. --Block-level elimination of duplicate or redundant data. The solutions eliminate redundant data blocks during the backup process to prevent storage of duplicate information on NearStore and significantly reduce backup-media consumption. --Increased disk-based backup performance. NetApp and VERITAS have developed new protocols to enable rapid backups to the NearStore disk array which eliminate common disk-based backup bottlenecks and complexity. --Faster, simpler recovery. The integrated solutions provide administrators and even end-users a view of backup files in their native format, just as they would see them on a shared server. Users or IT managers can rapidly search through hundreds of consolidated online backups and perform drag-and-drop restores of individual files or folders directly from the NetApp NearStore system. "We have a strong partnership with both NetApp and VERITAS that allows us to offer our customers complete and best-in-class data protection solutions," said Greg Meland, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Datalink. "With the new integrated solutions from NetApp and VERITAS, our customers will benefit from access to a simplified data protection strategy which allows them to manage all data protection stages from a single interface, including Snapshot and SnapRestore management for short-term protection and instant recovery, SnapVault and disk-to-disk backups for quick recovery as well as NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) An open standard for backing up data in a heterogeneous environment. Developed by Network Appliance and IntelliGuard Software, NDMP uses a common data format which is written to and read from drivers for the specific disk and tape backups for traditional storage." Cooperative Support Helps Customers Optimize Enterprise Storage NetApp and VERITAS have also made significant investments in joint support and training to provide customers more advanced, integrated support solutions for optimizing their data storage and protection requirements. The companies have collaborated on joint support at all levels of the enterprise, including tighter integration between the NetApp Global Services support team and VERITAS' Business Critical enterprise support teams to provide a unified support relationship and service for the customer. "The cooperative support agreement allows both NetApp and VERITAS to focus on customer satisfaction by quickly and efficiently resolving problems and/or preventing issues before they happen," said Phil Williams Professor Philip James Stradling Williams (January 11, 1939 – June 10,2003) was a Welsh politician for Plaid Cymru and scientist. Background Williams was born in Tredegar in the industrial valleys of south Wales and grew up in Bargoed, another industrial town. , vice president, NetApp Global Services. "This cooperative environment will save customers time, improve the quality of support, and reduce complexities for customers who use solutions provided by both companies. Mission-critical issues can now be escalated from one company to the other 24/7, which will eliminate redundancies and ensure that the customer has the appropriate resources working to support their data storage needs." NetApp and VERITAS will provide demonstrations of the joint solution at Booth #201 at VERITAS VISION(TM) 2005, April 25-27th in San Francisco. About Network Appliance Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage The capability of combining different data formats such as files, folders, contacts and e-mail messages into collections that can be viewed and manipulated as one group. See WinFS. solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive "The evolution of storage.(TM)" Information about Network Appliance(TM) solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com. About VERITAS Software VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the world, is a leading provider of software and services 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. . 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 2004 revenue of $2.04 billion, VERITAS delivers products and services 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. This press release may include estimates and forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that our products will not perform as well as expected, the risk that we will not gain market acceptance of our products and services, the risk that we will not be able to maintain the quality of our end-user customer and partnering relationships and the risk that we will not manage our business effectively, that could cause the actual results we achieve to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. For more information regarding potential risks, see the "Factors That May Affect Future Results" section of our most recent annual and quarterly report on file with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. Copyright (C) 2005 VERITAS Software Corporation. All rights reserved. VERITAS, the VERITAS Logo, Enterprise Vault, 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. |
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