ServPoint to lower total cost of networked storage.The ServPoint family of storage software is VERITAS answer to easing migration to networked storage and providing an open and scalable alternative to proprietary storage appliances. For NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular and SAN environments, ServPoint leverages VERITAS' storage management technologies to transform industry-standard hardware components into open, enterprise-class appliances that simplify storage administration and lower the total cost of storage ownership. This family of open appliance A stand-alone hardware device or software environment dedicated to a specific task. See hardware appliance and software appliance. software solutions enables customers to consolidate and re-purpose existing hardware into networked storage appliances. Moreover, ServPoint's extension of core 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. technology results in a competitive advantage by providing 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. , storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. , and data protection solutions from the company's broad range of proven storage software products. Storage appliances provide an easy-to-use, dedicated solution for provisioning, managing, and serving storage throughout the network. The NAS appliance market is expected to grow from 1.9 billion in 2002 to 4.8 billion in 2005, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner (Gartner, Inc., Stamford, CT, www.gartner.com) The largest information technology consulting firm that specializes in research and analysis. Founded in 1979 by Gideon Gartner, it has grown through acquisitions, including Dataquest in 1995 and Techrepublic in 2000. . This growth reflects the movement of software intelligence further into storage networks, as the continuous access and availability of information increases in importance to organizations. "There is a point at which adding hardware does not keep pace with growing storage requirements of the enterprise," said Howard Silver, vice president, Appliance Software Division, VERITAS Software. "Our ServPoint appliance software allows companies to take advantage of the shift from direct-attached to networked storage--with proven, trusted technologies and no proprietary tradeoffs. VERITAS ServPoint's scalable, unifying architecture serves storage from the workgroup to the enterprise when and where it's needed." ServPoint is the first product family supported by VERITAS' Advanced Product Team, a new field organization dedicated to helping customers adopt newer technologies. It is available immediately in either pre-integrated configurations of software-only versions to be integrated with the customer's choice of server or storage hardware. ServPoint NAS software, which serves storage at the file level, and ServPoint SAN software, for customers wishing to serve disk/block level storage, are both currently available. www.veritas.com |
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