VERITAS Captures The Essence Of Centralized SAN Management.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. recently announced VERITAS SANPoint Control, a product designed to simplify and centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. the management of multi-vendor Storage Area Networks (SANs). The management product fills a need for corporations deploying SANs by masking mask·ing n. 1. The concealment or the screening of one sensory process or sensation by another. 2. An opaque covering used to camouflage the metal parts of a prosthesis. the complexity of a multi-vendor SAN environment so that maintaining availability of enterprise data is the focus. Built on VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer technology, the product helps customers visualize, monitor, and control SAN resources, regardless of the hardware. When combined with the 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. capabilities of 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. , the new product also enables administration of logical storage pools from the application to the storage device. "More and more Storage Area Networks are being deployed today as companies react to the explosion of data," said Steve v. t. 1. To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve. Widen, research director of storage devices at International Data Corporation. "With these SAN environments comes a set of management challenges. Solutions such as [this product] enable corporations to realize the potential of their SAN today and focus on the consolidation and availability of their data." "Our customers are deploying SANs and are turning to us to help them gain control of the environment without invoking management tools across every layer of the SAN," said Robin Purohit, senior director of product management for Clustering and SAN at VERITAS Software. "[It] allows companies to deploy their SAN, using the hardware components of their choice at every level, knowing they can manage the environment from a point." |
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