VERITAS Cluster Server And Remote Storage.

VERITAS Software Corporation announced VERITAS Cluster Server for NT, effectively expanding platform support for its management product. Enabling customers with Windows NT-based applications to create clusters of two to 32 servers, the management product delivers the scalability and flexibility necessary to extend the Windows NT Server environment to levels of availability. The product benefits customers with Windows NT server farms, SANs used for consolidating Windows NT storage, and eBusiness application environments using Unix and Windows NT servers.

"Many of our customers rely upon Windows NT-based environments for their business and applications," said Dan Kuznetsky, program director at International Data Corporation. "As VERITAS Software delivers integrated clustering and storage management products to the Windows NT market, we believe the company will provide the kind of solutions customers need to protect their next wave of e-commerce applications."

Windows NT servers are being deployed in data centers for e-mail, Web serving, file/print, and database applications. The shift to a web-enabled eBusiness model for IT is increasing the level of availability of these applications. Application downtime equates to lost productivity; downtime results in lost revenue opportunity and reduces customer loyalty.

The new product is available from the company and through VERITAS Cluster Server Certified Team VERITAS Advantage VARs. Pricing for Exchange Server implementation is $3,500 per server.

The company also introduced VERITAS Remote Storage for Microsoft Exchange, a storage management application designed to minimize storage space on Microsoft Exchange servers by moving email message attachments from the Exchange database onto a storage device. With the management application, Exchange administrators have a tool to help them manage the amount of data being stored in Exchange databases today.

Targeted at managing one of the applications on corporate networks, the application allows organizations to move message attachments within Exchange databases to a storage device such as a tape drive or library that users might already be using to back up their system. With the new product, the size of Exchange databases may shrink by 50 percent, while Exchange clients retain access to all of the message attachments that have been moved by the product. With a certain amount of data stored within the Exchange Information Store, customers can expect backups and recoveries of their Exchange environment.

For those customers who have already installed VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows NT/2000, it will be available through VERITAS Software Corporation's network of Team VERITAS VARs worldwide for a U.S. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $4,995. VERITAS Remote Storage Agent for Microsoft Exchange, which allows the base product to manage one additional server, can be purchased for a MSRP of $995. The VERITAS Storage Suite for Exchange, which consists of a product bundle, including VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows NT/2000, VERITAS Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Exchange, and the VERITAS Remote Storage for Microsoft Exchange products, will be available for a MSRP of $5,995.