REPEATING/VERITAS Software Releases Technology Vision for Enterprise-Class Application Storage Management.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1999-- New 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. Solutions Protect, Access and Manage Information Across Heterogeneous Strategic Platforms VERITAS(r) Software Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS VRTS Veritas Software (stock symbol) VRTS Verification Requirements Tracking System ), the industry's leading enterprise-class application storage management software provider, today announced its new product strategy and roadmap plans. With the merger of VERITAS Software and Seagate Software Seagate Software was an international software corporation headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. It was a majority owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, the largest independent disc drive and related components company in the world. Network and Storage Management Group (NSMG) (see related announcements dated today), the new VERITAS Software is the world's largest independent software company focused strictly on storage management -- with plans to spend $1.5 billion in storage management software research and development over the next five years. VERITAS Software will continue to lead the industry in technology that provides companies with solutions to address the growing need to reliably protect, access and manage business-critical application information. "With the constant emergence of new applications in our industry today (e.g., CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , ERM (Enterprise Relationship Management) An umbrella term with many shades of meaning over the years. It may refer to the management of information from any or all of an organization's customers, suppliers, business partners and employees. , E-Commerce), managing the storage required to run these applications efficiently and uninterrupted is both a challenge and a necessity among enterprise businesses," said Sean Derrington, senior research analyst, META Group. "Organizations are rapidly consolidating storage-management functions across the enterprise (UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and NetWare) as they continue to grapple with to enter into contest with, resolutely and courageously. See also: Grapple the daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin tasks of protecting, accessing and managing the depths of information that span enterprises today." Due to the increased volumes of data and information generated over the past few decades, the market demand for storage has increased exponentially, year over year. This, coupled with the rapid emergence of enterprise applications, has driven companies to demand innovative storage management solutions that scale with, provide continuous access to, and manage their growing pool of information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. . "VERITAS Software, now the fastest-growing storage software company in the world, is ideally positioned to deliver industry-leading solutions that protect, access and manage the volume of data generated by each new major application that hits the market today," said Michael Colemere, vice president of product management, VERITAS Software. "The bottom line is, with VERITAS Software solutions, our customers can be assured that their data is protected, recoverable and always available." VERITAS Software extends this strategy for information availability by offering enterprise customers the ability to scale their application storage management solutions to appropriately deliver the right level of availability based on the application's criticality to the business. The VERITAS Information Availability Index assists customers in formulating each application's storage management strategy that will support the application's required service and availability level. Roadmap to Protect Information Critical applications play a vital role in today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. operations and job performance. VERITAS Software Information Protection solutions reliably protect information -- from desktop/mobile users to the data center -- by providing non-disruptive application backup for 24 x 7 environments, high-speed backup and disaster recovery, centralized backup administration and simplified recovery of application information. VERITAS Software solutions that protect information for all storage domains from the desktop to the data center include: VERITAS Backup Exec Backup Exec is backup software for Microsoft Windows environments currently developed by Symantec. Backup Exec has a long history of being sold from one company to another. (TM), VERITAS Desktop Management Suite(TM), VERITAS Global Data Manager(TM), VERITAS NetBackup(TM) and VERITAS TeleBackup(TM). "Our product integration mission in the 'protect' category is to not only retain all of the product functionality our VERITAS Software and Seagate Software NSMG customers are accustomed to, but to further enhance these solutions by pulling together the best technology of each product," said Fred van den Bosch, executive vice president, engineering, VERITAS Software. "The result will be a comprehensive line of data protection solutions that bridge Windows NT, 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. and UNIX environments with both robust, enterprise functionality and ease-of-use." To build upon its powerful Information Protection solutions, VERITAS Software will implement a three-phased integration approach for its backup strategy. Phase one, which is already near completion, will involve the centralized management of enterprise-level VERITAS NetBackup for UNIX and Windows NT, and workgroup-level VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows NT and NetWare, via the VERITAS Global Data Manager. Phase two includes the development of common components, including a calendar-based scheduler and tape formats for heterogeneous environments. The third phase will be the delivery of a complete suite of heterogeneous data protection products that have a common name, common architectural components, as well as compatible catalogs and GUIs. The product roadmaps for other VERITAS Software products in the information protection category include the integration of the top client-protection features from both Seagate Software NSMG's and TeleBackup's technology to create a single client protection solution. The VERITAS Desktop Management Suite, which includes the award winning VERITAS WinINSTALL(TM) (software distribution), VERITAS WinLAND(TM) (software inventory) and VERITAS WinSMART(TM) (software metering Limiting the number of users running an application from a centralized source (server) based on the current license agreement. ), will also evolve to provide total client protection and management, so that customers are able to remotely manage and fully restore or reset their systems back to any specific point in time. Roadmap to Access Information VERITAS Software products that ensure customers' access to information, anytime, are designed to provide continuous access to business information and applications, faster application performance, disaster immunity, scaleable support for small-to-large environments and efficient use of on-line storage. VERITAS Software solutions to access information include: VERITAS Cluster Server Veritas Cluster Server (also known as VCS) is a High-availability cluster software, for Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows computer systems, created by Veritas Software (now part of Symantec). (TM), VERITAS File System See VxFS. (TM), VERITAS FirstWatch(TM), VERITAS Storage Migrator(TM) and VERITAS Storage Replicator See port replicator. replicator - Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or (TM). VERITAS Cluster Server is taking 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 disaster recovery to the next level. By the end of this year, VERITAS Software will be introducing Wide Area Failover to complement its VERITAS Cluster Server product. System Administrators will be able to take advantage of the most scalable, local cluster product in addition to VERITAS Software's replication technology (from both the classic VERITAS Software and Seagate Software NSMG) to create a disaster recovery site that provides high availability from one site to another, local management, as well as around-the-clock data utilization. VERITAS Software will also introduce application storage management solutions for messaging and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. applications that use the knowledge of application characteristics to intelligently migrate infrequently used application data to secondary storage media, thus reducing management costs and backup times. Roadmap to Manage Information Managing storage resources across the enterprise requires centralized storage management solutions that increase availability, reduce management costs through automation and provide comprehensive reporting, performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. and capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. of storage resources. The following VERITAS Software solutions to manage information enable organizations to gain control of their desktops and enterprise network: VERITAS Global Data Manager(TM), VERITAS Manage Exec(TM), VERITAS Media Librarian See librarian. (TM), VERITAS NerveCenter(TM), VERITAS Storage Manager(TM), VERITAS Storage Optimizer(TM) and VERITAS Volume Manager The Veritas Volume Manager, VVM or VxVM is a proprietary logical volume manager from Veritas (now part of Symantec). It is available for Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX. A modified version is bundled with HP-UX as its built-in volume manager. (TM). VERITAS Software's Storage Resource Management (SRM (1) (Storage Resource Management) The management of the storage resources in an organization in order to avoid duplication of files and to determine space utilization across all servers. ) direction will include the expansion of the number and sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of built-in policies and optimization applications for pro-actively managing VERITAS Software products. The Company will also introduce products for the monitoring and operational policy management of storage area network (SAN) resources, and for managing access to and allocation of storage resources on SANs. VERITAS NerveCenter technology will be used to provide the policy management, automation, event correlation Event Correlation is the processes involved with reducing a large number of incident alerts to a much smaller, more manageable number within automated monitoring and incident/problem management in a Support Management System. and filtering for evolving VERITAS Software SAN solutions. Roadmap for Information Availability Solutions VERITAS Software has integrated solutions to protect, access and manage information together in a range of product suites, or "Editions," that are optimized for specific business-critical, enterprise applications (including File Servers, Oracle, Sybase, SAP and Internet Application environments). The VERITAS Database Editions for Oracle and Sybase are certified by the database vendor to provide enhanced availability and performance and to reduce management costs for business-critical applications. Integration with VERITAS NetBackup improves availability through online backup and incremental backup solutions. VERITAS Software will also be announcing its next generation VERITAS Internet and File Server Editions this year. Key functionality will include the automatic replication of Web servers, reducing administration costs for Internet and Intranet servers, as well as support for Microsoft Windows NT environments. Roadmap for SAN Support VERITAS Software will continue to offer products that exploit the benefits of SANs (storage-centric computing), support the management of SAN resources and manage the access to and allocation of SAN-attached storage resources. VERITAS Cluster Server will enable significant reduction in the cost of availability, and VERITAS NetBackup and VERITAS Backup Exec will improve application performance by the use of off-host backup technologies. VERITAS Software SAN solutions are planned to be introduced in the following phases: -- Phase One -- During 1999, VERITAS Software plans to extend support of homogeneous solutions that supply 32-node clustering for Solaris, HP/UX and Windows NT. Application performance and availability will also be enhanced through support in VERITAS NetBackup and VERITAS Backup Exec of LAN-free backup to robots that can be shared between multiple servers on the SAN. VERITAS Software will also use its technology to configure fibre-attached storage "appliances." -- Phase Two -- During 2000 and 2001, VERITAS Software plans to introduce products that support the management of SAN hardware resources and manage access to SAN-attached storage resources from heterogeneous servers. VERITAS Cluster Server will also support heterogeneous SAN configurations. -- Phase Three - Beyond 2001, management and allocation of storage resources in heterogeneous SAN configurations will be supported, as well as the sharing of data on SAN-attached storage devices between heterogeneous servers. The VERITAS Software combination with Seagate Software NSMG was consummated on Friday, May 28, 1999, as described in the related announcement dated today. About VERITAS Software For enterprise customers who demand the continuous availability of business critical information, VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS), the industry's leading enterprise-class application storage management software provider, ensures information availability from business-critical applications by delivering integrated, cross-platform storage management software solutions. The Company's products enable Business Without Interruption(TM) and are designed to protect, access and manage business-critical application information. VERITAS Software products are delivered through a global end user sales force and a worldwide network of enterprise VARs, resellers and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners. The Company's corporate headquarters is located at 1600 Plymouth Street, Mountain View, CA 94043. Telephone: (650) 335-8000. Fax: (650) 335-8050. Email: vx-sales@veritas.com. WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. site: http://www.veritas.com/. This press release may include estimates and forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the timely development and market acceptance of products and VERITAS' ability to appropriately distribute its products, that could cause actual results the Company achieves to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. For more information regarding potential risks see the "Risk Factors" section of our most recent reports on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. on file with the SEC. Notes to Editors: VERITAS is a registered trademark of VERITAS Software Corporation in the US and other countries. The VERITAS logo is a trademark of VERITAS Software Corporation in the US and other countries. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. This news release was issued along with four other related announcements also dated today. These include: -- VERITAS Software Finalizes Acquisition of Seagate Software Network and Storage Management Group -- VERITAS Software Unveils Expanded Partner Roster and Strategic Partner Strategy -- VERITAS Software Announces Storage Management Software Industry's Most Comprehensive Sales Channel Infrastructure -- VERITAS Software Reveals Dynamic Strategy for World-Class Technical Support |
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