VERITAS Announces New Version of NetBackup for Microsoft Windows NT Server, Product Now BackOffice Certified.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1998-- NetBackup for 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. Server Provides Industry's Most Scalable, Reliable Backup Solution for All Windows NT Customers 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. Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :VRTS VRTS Veritas Software (stock symbol) VRTS Verification Requirements Tracking System ), the leading provider of enterprise end-to-end storage management solutions, today announced a new version of NetBackup for Windows NT Server, delivering on the company's promise to provide customers with increasingly powerful storage solutions for Microsoft's Windows NT Server platform. VERITAS also announced that the new version of NetBackup for Windows NT Server has now received BackOffice certification, ensuring safe, reliable interoperability with all features and functions of Windows NT and the BackOffice suite of applications. "With this announcement, NetBackup for Windows NT Server is now the industry's most scalable NT backup product, providing cost-effective, high-performance, and reliable backup operations for IT managers who are deploying NT systems from small workgroups to enterprise environments," said David Spenhoff, vice president of marketing for VERITAS Software. "This announcement, with the other NT-focused announcements made today, demonstrates VERITAS' commitment to deliver solutions that progressively improve storage management for Windows NT customers." NetBackup for High- and Low-end NT Customers NetBackup is designed to meet the needs of a broad range of Microsoft NT customers. At the low end, NetBackup provides easy, automated installation and configuration for small businesses or workgroup computing environments. For large, distributed enterprise environments, NetBackup is easily customizable and configurable and supports a wide array of hardware. The product also enables automated installation over distributed networks. Support for both Intel and Alpha hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. ensures that NetBackup addresses the widest possible range of customer requirements. NetBackup for Windows NT Server includes several new features that increase the product's ability to solve the needs of both high and low-end customers. These features include: -0-
-- Windows GUI -- Intuitive, easy to use GUI follows Microsoft
standards and easily fits into existing Windows NT environments.
Because it looks and behaves like tools that users are familiar
with, there is a very low learning curve when implementing the
product.
-- Oracle 7 and Oracle 8 Support -- Using Oracle's OEBU and RMAN
interfaces, NetBackup for Windows NT provides hot, on-line
backups for databases while eliminating the need for downtime.
Secure backups while maintaining data accessibility is a VERITAS
standard.
-- Support for Microsoft Exchange and SQL -- Hot, on-line backups of
Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server databases provide secure data
capture without having to shut down the applications. Users
maintain constant access to their critical data while being
protected from a catastrophic data loss.
-- Windows 98 Client Support -- Support for Windows 98 clients
ensures that NetBackup for Windows NT offers the broadest and
most up-to-date support available.
-0- VERITAS Roadmap for Powerful Windows NT Server Storage Solutions With this release of NetBackup for Windows NT Server, VERITAS is keeping to its roadmap of delivering increasingly powerful storage solutions for Windows NT Server. This roadmap provides a technology direction for improved integration, increased performance and availability, simplified administration and more complete interoperability with Windows NT Server. As part of the roadmap, VERITAS intends to deliver a version of NetBackup that offers full SAP support by the end of 1998. About NetBackup NetBackup is the industry's leading solution for automating enterprise backup operations from a single management interface. The product consolidates management of all storage devices including standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. , departmental, and those found in data centers. NetBackup improves data reliability for organizations that store critical information on heterogeneous systems heterogeneous system n. A chemical system that contains various distinct and mechanically separable parts or phases, such as a suspension. and distribute it around the world. The product also supports virtually all popular computing platforms See platform. , including 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). derivatives, Windows NT, Novell, Macintosh, and others. Pricing and Availability NetBackup for Windows NT Server is immediately available worldwide from VERITAS and its VERITAS Advantage Resellers including DMSI DMSI Document Management Solutions, Inc. DMSI Direct Marketing Services, Inc (Chicago, IL) DMSI Defense Modeling and Simulation Initiative DMSI Demethoxysecoisolariciresinol , Direct Connect and Kanatek Technologies International. Pricing starts at US $3,995 per server, US $50 per client. Customers outside the US can contact their local reseller nearest them by visiting the VERITAS web site at www.veritas.com or by e-mail to vx-sales@veritas.com. About VERITAS VERITAS Software Corp. designs, develops and markets enterprise storage management and 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. software products that manage both online and offline data for business-critical computing systems. The company's products are designed to improve system performance, availability and manageability while reducing the cost of administration. VERITAS products are delivered through a worldwide direct sales force and a network of 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 in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and the Asia-Pacific. 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 site: http://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 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. VERITAS and the VERITAS logo are registered trademarks of VERITAS Software Corp. VERITAS NetBackup is a trademark of VERITAS Software Corp. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. All other trademarks and registered trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: VERITAS Software Melinda Mattei, 650/335-8566 melinda@veritas.com |
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