VERITAS Software Announces VERITAS V3 SAN Initiative; Demonstrates New Technologies That Simplify Management of Enterprise Storage.ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1999-- Reveals Storage Area Network (SAN) Virtualization Technologies That Extend Capabilities of First-Generation SANs VERICON.99 VERITAS(R) Software Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS VRTS Veritas Software (stock symbol) VRTS Verification Requirements Tracking System ), the industry's leading enterprise-class application storage management software provider, today announced the unveiling of its VERITAS V3(TM) SAN initiative, which provides the technologies necessary to evolve and efficiently manage SANs to support today's rapidly changing e-business environments. The VERITAS V3 SAN initiative is composed of three new 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. technologies that enable server applications and storage management software to take advantage of new SAN device capabilities across 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. . As a result, customers will be able to evolve their first-generation SAN installations to build scalable, enterprise-storage solutions that can deliver high levels of availability while containing costs of storage administration. The VERITAS V3 SAN initiative consists of three standards-based components: 1) the V3 SAN Access Layer(TM), a host based (1) A system controlled by a central or main computer. A host-based system typically refers to a hierarchical communications system controlled by a central computer. (2) technology layer that extends existing 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. products to take advantage of new SAN hardware capabilities; 2) the V3 Storage Appliance(TM), a software suite which allows hardware original equipment manufacturer (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 and integrators to embed storage virtualization services into SAN equipment; and 3) V3 SAN Management Tools(TM), a family of modular management agents and applications that provides centralized visualization, monitoring and automation of logical SAN resources. The VERITAS V3 SAN Initiative has received endorsement by a number of major industry partners (Please see separate release dated today /a). In addition, the initiative is based on, and will evolve with, emerging storage networking standards. VERITAS Software is an active participant in a number of standards groups, including the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ), the Fibre Alliance, the Jiro(TM) platform expert group, and the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA FCIA See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association ). Defining SAN Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. SAN virtualization provides server applications and storage management software with a logical view of the storage resources on a SAN, providing a foundation to easily scale installations and ensure availability. SAN virtualization builds on capabilities of logical volume management software, such as 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. (TM), which manages and maps physical storage devices into logical disks and isolates the host application from disruptions due to storage configuration changes. To take full advantage of heterogeneous SAN environments, new software services that provide logical abstraction of both physical SAN devices and new storage network services are required. These new software services will break the limitations of legacy bus-oriented SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. architectures and provide consistent interfaces across heterogeneous platforms. The standards-based VERITAS V3 SAN Initiative is providing these software services through the Company's broad line of storage management software products and OEMs. "Storage virtualization is a concept that has been used successfully for years in mainframe systems to dramatically lower costs of management in centralized data centers." said Michael Peterson, president and senior analyst, Strategic Research. "Industry leaders such as VERITAS Software are extending this concept to open systems SANs, providing similar benefits and allowing increased heterogeneity." "We are providing our customers a way to leverage their VERITAS Software investments to manage the growth of SANs over the long term," said Michael Colemere, vice president of product management, VERITAS Software. "By adhering closely to emerging standards for SAN software, as well as leveraging our close working relationships with vendor partners, our virtualization program delivers breakthrough SAN technologies ensuring that our customers can evolve their first generation SAN installations into heterogeneous, scalable enterprise-storage solutions." VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer The VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer is a new host-based technology layer that sits between SAN devices and storage management applications. This layer communicates with SAN hardware using existing and emerging standard protocols and APIs, as well as vendor-specific methods. By correlating this information, the V3 SAN Access Layer can present a consistent application-programming interface (API) to a storage management application. For example, the V3 SAN Access Layer collects and correlates "zoning" and naming information from switches, host bus adapters (HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. ), and storage devices, and presents a single-zoning API. This enables users to manage zoning of complex SANs from a single centralized console, and allows applications such as 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). (TM) to automatically re-configure zones to recover from hardware failures. The V3 SAN Access Layer will be available for both 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). and 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. , and will be bundled with future releases of products from VERITAS Software and its strategic OEM partners. VERITAS V3 Storage Appliance The VERITAS V3 Storage Appliance is a software suite based on VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File System See VxFS. (TM) that allows hardware OEMs and integrators to embed virtualization services in SAN hardware, thus creating a new class of storage device. This suite includes new virtual disk technology from VERITAS Software which is built on top of VERITAS Volume Manager and presents logical disks to a host server attached to the storage appliance using a Fibre Channel SAN. A management layer and JAVA application that simplifies the administration of the appliance is also included. Hardware OEM partners and integrators bundle this software suite with a commodity server SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill or Intel Architecture CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. platform, HBAs and disks to create either stand-alone appliances or integrated storage server subsystems. By using the advanced storage management capabilities of this software suite, storage administrators can flexibly allocate physical devices to virtual disks and change the volume size, RAID configuration, or disk layout while isolating the host server from storage configuration changes. VERITAS V3 Storage Appliance functionality can be extended by adding optional software products, such as VERITAS Cluster Server, allowing multiple appliances to act as a single highly available virtual disk farm. Other options include a SAMBA layer built on top of VERITAS File System to enable both Common Internet File System (protocol) Common Internet File System - (CIFS) An Internet file system protocol, based on Microsoft's SMB. Microsoft has given CIFS to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an Internet Draft. CIFS is intended to complement existing protocols such as HTTP, FTP, and NFS. (CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. ) and Network File System (NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System ) file protocol access to storage, creating a file server appliance that supports UNIX and Windows NT clients. The VERITAS V3 Storage Appliance is currently available to VERITAS Software OEM Partners and selected integrators. VERITAS V3 SAN Management Tools To reduce the management challenges found in today's complex SAN installations, VERITAS V3 SAN Management Tools will provide key capabilities in a SAN environment such as discovery and visualization, device status monitoring and centralized zoning configuration and administration. The V3 SAN Management Tools encompass modular agents, a Java console and integrated VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer technology to provide critical management of the heterogeneous SAN environment. Management agents track essential performance and event data from VERITAS Software enterprise-class applications, such as VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System(TM) and VERITAS NetBackup(TM), to provide monitoring, reporting and policy automation. In a similar manner, agents enable capacity management by monitoring the state and performance of storage resources such as tape devices, physical and logical volumes and file systems. VERITAS V3 SAN Management Tools employ an easy-to-use Java console in addition to natively passing data to third-party management applications or frameworks that are already installed at a user site. Another key element to the management strategy is timely support for critical storage management standards such as Jiro CIM/WBEM, as well as active participation in several working groups within the SNIA. Products are being developed for the UNIX and Windows NT platforms and will be available next year with a more detailed product announcement anticipated in early 2000. Availability The VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer will be available for both UNIX and Windows NT, and is scheduled to be bundled with future releases of products from VERITAS Software and its strategic OEM partners. The VERITAS V3 Storage Appliance is currently available to VERITAS Software OEM Partners and selected integrators. For more information about VERITAS Software or its SAN solutions, please contact the Company's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. sales headquarters office at: 400 International Parkway, Heathrow, FL 32746; 800/327-2232; 407/531-7501 or FAX: 407/531-7730. The introduction of VERITAS Software's V3 SAN Initiative is a key area of focus during VERITAS Software's annual user conference, VERICON.99, being held this week in Anaheim, Calif. About VERITAS Software For enterprise customers who demand the continuous availability of business-critical information, VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS), the industry's leading enterprise-class application storage management software provider, ensures information availability from business-critical applications by delivering integrated, cross-platform storage management software solutions. The Company's products enable Business Without Interruption(TM) and are designed to protect, access and manage business-critical application information. VERITAS Software products are delivered through a global end user sales force and a worldwide network of enterprise VARs, resellers and OEM partners. 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 WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. site: http://www.veritas.com/. This press release may include estimates and forward-looking statements 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 is a registered trademark of VERITAS Software Corporation in the US and other countries. The VERITAS logo, Business Without Interruption, VERITAS V3, VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer, VERITAS V3 Storage Appliance, VERITAS V3 SAN Management Tools, VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System, VERITAS NetBackup and VERITAS Cluster Server are trademarks of VERITAS Software Corporation in the US and other countries. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. /a Storage Area Network (SAN) Industry Leaders Really in Support of VERITAS V3 SAN Initiative |
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