VERITAS Delivers Storage Management and High Availability Software on Sun Solaris 10 Operating System; Latest Software Delivers Unique Capabilities on the Solaris 10 Platform.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Drawing from a dozen years of innovation and collaboration, 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. Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS VRTS Veritas Software (stock symbol) VRTS Verification Requirements Tracking System ) today extended its 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. offerings to include full support of Sun Microsystem's Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. (OS). Further, VERITAS is delivering on its commitment to support new releases of operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. within 90 days of general availability with the release of the 4.1 versions of VERITAS Storage Foundation Veritas Storage Foundation, previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) to provide a complete solution for online storage management. It is currently developed and maintained by Symantec Corporation. (TM), 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). and VERITAS Volume 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 software. Sun customers can now upgrade to the Solaris 10 OS with confidence that VERITAS will deliver the same industry leading storage management and high availability technology it does today for Solaris 8 and 9, while adding new capabilities specifically designed to take advantage of the latest innovations included in the Solaris 10 OS. "VERITAS software has already helped The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) A securities exchange trading American and European foreign currency options on spot exchange rates. increase storage utilization by more than 25 percent," said Bill Morgan For other uses, see Bill Morgan (disambiguation). Bill Morgan is best known as a CBC television Producer. Bill immigrated to Canada from Australia in 1967. In the late 1960s, Bill was editor of the Brandon Sun newspaper. , CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. , Philadelphia Stock Exchange. "The new features in VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 will help us drive further cost efficiencies and simplify the management of our tiered storage A data storage system made up of two or more types of storage based on their access speed. For example, magnetic disk and tape or magnetic disk and optical disc are widely used in a tiered storage system. See HSM. model. Furthermore, because VERITAS software supports Solaris 10, we have seen tremendous operating system performance gains that will allow us to better serve our customers." "By taking the most-advanced OS on the planet and making it free of charge and open source, Sun has seen huge demand for Solaris 10," said Tom Goguen, vice president, Operating Platforms Group, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. "Now Sun and VERITAS customers can take advantage of the latest IT solutions in their data centers." Streamlined Management: Increased Performance of Core Storage Management Functions VERITAS Storage Foundation software now offers full support for the latest features and enhancements included in Solaris 10, such as Solaris Containers, DTrace and new security functionality with Process Rights Management and Solaris Secure Execution. Additionally, VERITAS Storage Foundation software now includes a robust application program interface (API) and complete software development kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ). These additions make it easier for companies to standardize on a common storage management platform across heterogeneous storage and server environments. In addition, partners and third-party developers can now write new applications to fully utilize VERITAS' storage management framework. Optimized Data Availability VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1 helps provide increased levels of data availability for applications, databases and servers as well as enhanced protection against downtime, whether planned or unplanned, in a local or wide area Solaris 10 environment as well as deployments using Solaris 10 Containers. VERITAS enables customers to securely provision and consolidate servers for cost savings and increased utilization by providing the option to cluster each individual container or the complete host, helping provide high availability to not only the host but the virtual operating system An operating system that can host other operating systems. See virtual machine. instances residing on the host. VERITAS Cluster Server can help protect against downtime and eliminate this single point of failure commonly found within Solaris 10 container environments. With VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1, Solaris customers can upgrade their environments to version 10 and attain greater levels of local and wide area application and data availability. Enhanced Performance: Data Replication over IP VERITAS Volume Replicator 4.1 gives Solaris 10 customers the ability to replicate and recover critical data regardless of the type of application or database being run in the environment, including Oracle RAC databases. Volume Replicator offers synchronous or asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. replication of clustered databases to help protect customers from storage outages and enable quick database recovery. Volume Replicator also adds bandwidth throttling controls to deliver increased performance and flexibility of data replication over IP. Bandwidth throttling helps reduce network replication costs by limiting peak replication activity and freeing-up bandwidth for other critical applications that require network resources. "VERITAS is committed to delivering the leading heterogeneous storage management and high availability platform to the large enterprise," said Robert Soderbery, vice president, Storage and Server Management Group, VERITAS Software. "Today's enhancements underscore our decade long commitment to the Solaris platform with a set of new capabilities now available on Solaris 10." Pricing and Availability VERITAS Storage Foundation, VERITAS Cluster Server and VERITAS Volume Replicator software are scheduled to become generally available in April 2005. Pricing for VERITAS Storage Foundation software starts at USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $1,495 per server, VERITAS Cluster Server starts at USD $2,995 per server and VERITAS Volume Replicator starts at USD $4,495 per server. About VERITAS Software VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the world, is a leading provider of software and services to enable utility computing. In a utility computing model, IT resources are aligned with business needs, and business applications are delivered with optimal performance and availability on top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing hardware and labor costs. With 2004 revenue of $2.04 billion, VERITAS delivers products and services for data protection, storage & server management, high availability and application performance management that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. More information about VERITAS Software can be found at www.veritas.com. VERITAS VISION 2005 VERITAS VISION(TM) 2005 is a leading IT conference that brings together thousands of IT professionals from around the world to evaluate the latest storage and server management, data protection and application service management solutions. Attendees will share and discuss best practices with peers, learn tips and tricks from the leading minds in technology and come away with a well-designed strategy to implement utility computing across their enterprises. For more information or to register for the VERITAS VISION 2005 conference April 25-28 at Moscone West, San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] , please visit: www.veritas.com/vision. This press release may include estimates and forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that we will not gain market acceptance of our products and services, the risk that we will not be able to maintain the quality of our end-user customer and partnering relationships and the risk that we will not manage our business effectively, that could cause the actual results we achieve to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. For more information regarding potential risks, see the "Factors That May Affect Future Results" section of our most recent annual and quarterly report on file with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. Copyright (C) 2005 VERITAS Software Corporation. All rights reserved. VERITAS, the VERITAS Logo, VERITAS Storage Foundation, and VERITAS VISION are trademarks or registered trademarks of VERITAS Software Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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