VERITAS Extends Storage Management Offerings; Delivers New Innovations to IBM AIX Environments.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Storage Management Solutions Now Span Industry Leading 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. ; Maximizing Choice and Flexibility for Customers While Driving Down Costs 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 offerings to include new features for IBM's UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. . Today's AIX-based additions include 4.0 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 Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC In database computing, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) — an extra-charge[1] option for the Oracle Database software produced by Oracle Corporation — provides clustering and high availability in Oracle database environments. , VERITAS Storage Foundation for Databases (DB2 and Oracle), VERITAS Storage Foundation Cluster File System, 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. VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.0 software now supports the most prevalent operating systems running across the enterprise today including: Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. , Sun Solaris, Red Hat and SuSe Linux A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet Another Setup Tool (YaST), which is used to install, configure and maintain the OS, as and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX. With today's releases, VERITAS is delivering unique first-to-market innovations for customers running AIX by offering a more scalable, available, high-performance and cost-effective solution. 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's "Worldwide Server Market Ends 2003 With Strong Fourth Quarter," AIX was the fastest-growing UNIX operating system; in fact, AIX was the only UNIX operating system that grew revenue in 2003. With market-leading solutions for storage management, 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. and disaster recovery, VERITAS is enabling customers to maximize the price/performance, reliability, and manageability of their AIX environments. "As data volumes grow, customers need to feel confident that they can effectively manage their storage environments while ensuring continuous availability of mission-critical data on multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. ," said Ray Paquet, Gartner Group. "Expanded platform support from software vendors who are providing heterogeneous solutions for storage management allow customers to maximize storage utilization and reduce overall costs." Streamlined Manageability and Enhanced Performance Ensure Continuous Access to DB2 and Oracle VERITAS solutions offer unique benefits for customers running high-end databases across their IT environments. VERITAS Storage Foundation(TM) for Databases software provides performance and manageability that scales as customer IT environments and requirements evolve and expand. Customers running AIX can now provision or migrate their critical data over time to the appropriate class of storage based on pre-defined attributes and values -- without changing the way data is accessed by users or applications. This allows customers to use their storage more efficiently and achieve the storage price/performance balance that meets their business objectives. Leveraging the autonomic capabilities of IBM DB2 to design and easily build scalable high performance systems, VERITAS Storage Foundation for DB2 is the only heterogeneous software solution that allows customers to fully leverage DB2's scalability in AIX environments. VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC is the industry's only heterogeneous software solution that provides a high-performance and cost effective clustered file system A clustered file system is a file system which is simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering, most of which do not employ a clustered file system. for Oracle RAC on AIX. Customers benefit from easier installs and management of Oracle RAC on AIX. Optimizing Availability and Disaster Recovery for Mission Critical Environments VERITAS Cluster Server protects mission critical applications and databases against downtime, whether planned or unplanned. VERITAS Cluster Server is the only solution that provides wide-area failover on AIX. This capability enables organizations to fail over an entire data center with a single click of a mouse ensuring business continuity of mission critical applications and databases. Two new first to market features for VERITAS Cluster Server are Fire Drill and Cluster Simulator. VERITAS Cluster Server Fire Drill is a feature that enables live disaster recovery testing without impacting the production environment. VERITAS Cluster Server Simulator enables IT managers to simulate and test clusters without impacting their production environments and then to download successful cluster configurations directly into their live environments. VERITAS Volume Replicator reliably, efficiently and consistently mirrors data to remote locations over any IP network connection. Using VERITAS Volume Replicator, customers running AIX can utilize a flexible storage independent solution to deliver true disaster recovery when data currency and availability are paramount. Innovation Breakthrough: Portable Data Containers VERITAS delivers an innovative utility called Portable Data Containers, which dramatically simplifies the process of migrating data between the industry's leading operating systems. Additionally, customers can easily and quickly move their Oracle databases between leading operating systems. By unlocking data from the operating system using Portable Data Containers customers now achieve the highest levels of flexibility when it comes to choosing the most cost-effective computing solutions for their IT environments. Data migration can be achieved in three simple steps. 1. Using VERITAS Storage Foundation software data can be converted for migration between operating systems 2. Deport de·port tr.v. de·port·ed, de·port·ing, de·ports 1. To expel from a country. See Synonyms at banish. 2. To behave or conduct (oneself) in a given manner; comport. the data container from the existing operating system 3. Import the data container to the new operating system "As customers deploy new applications and databases to support business critical services, VERITAS is continually working to provide customers with the advanced technology to simplify the management and improve the performance of complex storage systems," said Jose Iglesias, vice president, product management, VERITAS Software. "By extending our leading storage management software to four of the industry's leading operating systems our customers are now one step closer to maximizing utilization of their IT assets and reducing the overall cost associated with administering and managing their IT infrastructure." About VERITAS Software VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the world, is a leading provider of software 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 2003 revenues of $1.75 billion, VERITAS delivers products 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. Copyright (C) 2004 VERITAS Software Corporation. All rights reserved. VERITAS, the VERITAS Logo, and VERITAS Storage Foundation 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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