Looks like we beat CNBC by just a few hrs on the Oracle/VRTS arragement.....
netcognizance.com
Here's what cnet says. It does include storedge.....
VERITAS Software, Oracle and Sun Microsystems Form Strategic
5/22/00 2:37:00 PM
Source: PR Newswire
Alliance To Support Customers' E-Business Growth The Best Just Got Better - Collaboration Delivers a Single Source for Problem Resolution and Validated Configurations for E-Business
MOUNTAIN VIEW, REDWOOD SHORES and PALO ALTO, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire/-- Industry leaders, VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), today announced a three-way strategic alliance to provide a set of well-integrated, high-quality services. The companies are also working together to jointly develop validated configurations to help their customers rapidly build more robust e-business infrastructures. This VERITAS, Oracle and Sun (VOS) initiative focuses dedicated resources in three areas: problem resolution and escalation via a Joint Escalation Center (JEC), joint development and testing, professional services and education. As a result, this initiative allows customers to more rapidly deploy infrastructures with higher confidence.
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SUNW
"Buyers of high performance business solutions require two dimensions of integration. Not only do the vendors need to merge technology components, but they also must procedurally collaborate on behalf of customers across the life cycle of the solution, including testing, packaging, deployment, support and root cause analysis," said Tony Adams, Senior Analyst, Dataquest IT Services Group. "The co-location of senior technical personnel and supporting infrastructure within a single facility is an advanced strategy enabling customers and vendors alike to confidently reap the full benefit of multi-vendor IT solutions."
Joint Escalation Center
A VERITAS, Oracle and Sun Joint Escalation Center (JEC) has been established to provide a single-source of expertise, coordinated support and problem resolution, previously unavailable in the industry. Located in a single facility, the JEC is staffed by senior support engineers from VERITAS, Oracle and Sun who report, through a common organizational structure, to a customer-support executive committee representing the three companies. The JEC is chartered with providing faster, more cohesive problem resolution for the companies' mutual customers who have purchased the appropriate level of support from each company. As a result, customers may receive accelerated resolution for interoperability issues escalated by any one of the three participant companies.
Validated Configurations
VERITAS Software, Oracle and Sun have jointly tested two configurations to provide tightly integrated products that are quick and easy to deploy. The parties have optimized and tested key components to provide a high level of system availability and manageability. The three companies have documented two validated configurations and intend to deliver up to five additional configurations and recommended services to support these configurations, which are expected by the end of the year.
The current validated configurations consist of:
-- Sun Solaris(TM) Operating Environment, Sun Enterprise(TM) servers and Sun StorEdge(TM) arrays
-- Oracle database
-- VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File System including Oracle specific modules
Unified Consulting Services
The companies are also working together to create a unified consulting services program called "VERITAS, Oracle and Sun (VOS) Foundation Services," which is expected to feature two key offerings. It is anticipated that the first offering, an Availability Assessment Service, will deliver a gap analysis report to customers, pinpointing areas for availability improvement. The second offering, a Platform Development Service, is expected to provide coordinated architectural design and implementation efforts to assist customers as they deploy improvements to their e-business infrastructure.
Will look for more details- Such as how JIRO fits into this.
I thought SUNW might have more storage management software of its own?
VRTS is a member of JIRO group and it looks like that Nishan outfit is also a member now....So these companies may have products that can feed off of the SUNW/Oracle/VRTS platform
Community
These supporters of Jiro technology represent the range of companies behind the initiative:
Ancor Communications*
ATL Products
BMC Software
Bridges for Islands
CNT
CDS
Crossroads
CrosStor
DPT
ECCS Inc.
Exabyte*
Fujitsu Computer Products of America*
Gadzoox
G2 Networks
Hitachi Ltd. subsidiaries*
Hitachi Data Systems*
Imation*
Legato*
Nishan Systems Pathlight Technology Inc.
Plasmon
QLogic
Quantum*
Prisa Networks
Reservoir Labs
Seagate
SER
Solid Data Systems
Spectra Logic
StorageTek*
Sun Microsystems*
Tandberg
Terascape
Tracer
VERITAS*
Vixel.
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