VERITAS Storage-Centric Computing Strategy to Bring Superior Data Availability, Scalability and Dramatically Reduced Cost
Business Wire - July 29, 1998 16:06
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1998--
Partners with Server, Storage, Storage Area Networking (SAN) Hardware, and Operating System Providers
VERITAS Software Corporation (NASDAQ:VRTS), the leading provider of enterprise end-to-end storage management solutions, today outlines its strategy to advance the evolution and adoption of Storage Area Networking (SAN).
In cooperation with its software and hardware partners, VERITAS is offering a vision that will deliver an open, integrated Storage Area Networking architecture that provides access to essential business data regardless of its location on the network. This new storage-centric computing model provides the highest level of data availability, and the scalability to meet the growing storage needs of the global enterprise at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage approaches.
"The computing industry is at the beginning of an era of rapid evolution in which we will see substantial improvements in data availability, system scalability and cost," said Mark Leslie. "Similar to the client-server computing paradigm shift of the '80s and '90s based on LAN technology, storage-centric computing, based on SAN technology, is the next major evolutionary step.
"Storage Area Networks allow storage resources to be distributed for ubiquitous data availability -- anywhere and at any time -- and make all storage resources available to any application or server on the network. VERITAS is leading this change by combining this vision, with proven storage technology and powerful industry partnerships."
The Evolution of Storage-Centric Computing
VERITAS defines three foreseeable stages of storage-centric computing, enabled by SAN. Today, local SANs allow homogeneous storage device sharing. The next step is broad-based clustering that allows homogeneous data sharing. Ultimately, through advancements in storage-centric computing built on SANs, VERITAS will promote the development of heterogeneous device and data sharing, for the highest availability, scalability and manageability of essential data in global enterprises. In each stage of evolution, VERITAS will work with its partners to build more intelligence into storage devices, accelerating the adoption of storage-centric computing.
VERITAS' Unique Position
"Storage Area Networking incorporates storage management into the powerful networking paradigm of the 90s," added Leslie. "VERITAS is the leader in enterprise end-to-end storage management, and has unmatched partnerships with platform, switch, storage and applications vendors. This, combined with our unique storage-centric view, enables us to build advanced storage area networking solutions, respond to evolving customer needs, and deliver powerful, integrated SAN solutions quickly."
VERITAS Foundation products, VERITAS File System and Volume Manager, serve as the foundation of VERITAS SAN strategy. Through extensive partnership adoption of these technologies, VERITAS' robust, on-line data management is installed in customer sites worldwide, on the most popular operating system platforms.
VERITAS NetBackup and VERITAS HSM provide scalable backup and restore services that can be easily attached to a distributed storage environment and still centrally managed.
In the future, VERITAS will leverage its broad technology base to bring improvements in clustering, storage management and storage network visualization, as well as deliver software products for intelligent network attached storage.
VERITAS' broad support by key vendors EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Sun, provide a foundation for VERITAS' Storage Area Networking strategy. Key storage hardware vendors including Data General, Hitachi, Symbios and others to provide a base of SAN-enabled storage hardware. VERITAS is building important new relationships with key SAN switch and hub providers, including Brocade, Gadzoox, McData, Vixel and others. Finally, VERITAS and key application vendors are exploring ways to make business applications storage-centric.
For more information about VERITAS, its products or partners, customers can visit the VERITAS web site at www.veritas.com.
About VERITAS
VERITAS Software Corporation designs, develops and markets enterprise storage management and high availability software products that manage both online and offline data for business-critical computing systems. Our products are designed to improve system performance, availability and manageability while reducing the cost of administration. VERITAS products are delivered through a worldwide direct sales force and a network of resellers and OEM partners in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific. 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 site: 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 that 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 and Form 10-Q on file with the SEC.
VERITAS and the VERITAS logo are registered trademarks of VERITAS Software Corporation. VERITAS NetBackup is a trademark of VERITAS Software Corporation. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
VERITAS Storage Area Networking Partner Support July 1998
Brocade
"Both Brocade and VERITAS believe that it is extremely important for users to have a comprehensive set of management capabilities for the SAN," said Peter Tarrant, vice president of marketing and business development for Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. "We developed our unique Brocade ZONING Fabric service for our SilkWorm Fibre Channel switch family specifically to address users' needs for improved management of Fabric-connected devices and improved Fabric security. With today's SAN strategy announcement, VERITAS further demonstrates its leadership in delivering end-to-end storage management solutions by addressing the overall issues of managing the storage environment. We look forward to working together with VERITAS to provide users with a highly-available, highly-reliable, flexible and secure SAN infrastructure."
Gadzoox
"The evolution of the SAN toward highly-distributed, scaleable storage-centric environment has been a long-standing tenet of Gadzoox SAN vision. Through our partnership with VERITAS, we plan to integrate the industry leading management capabilities of our hubs and switches with VERITAS industry-leading end to end storage management technologies to deliver an open storage-centric network infrastructure," Dave Tang, vice president of marketing at Gadzoox.
Hitachi Data Systems
"Hitachi Data Systems and VERITAS have a history of integrating hardware and software to provide enterprise customers with world-class open storage solutions," said Clive James, Vice President, Product Marketing, HDS Storage Line of Business. "Hitachi's unique technology-the ability to communicate directly with the storage device, independent of the platform-will give enterprises an edge in leveraging the advantages of storage area networking. By working with VERTIAS, we'll be able to use their leadership in storage management software to bring lower costs and greater ease of use to our customers."
McData
"VERITAS and McDATA are both pioneering the movement toward Storage Area Networking (SAN) and the enterprise-wide, high availability solutions it enables," said Larry Shane, Director of Business Development of McDATA Corporation. "Building these solutions requires expertise in network connectivity and storage management software. We believe that VERITAS' unique end-to-end storage management software, working in concert with our high-availability, ES-5000 Enterprise Fibre Channel Director, is the perfect combination of technology to provide enterprise customers with the power and ease of use to deploy robust, scalable storage networks."
Symbios, Inc.
Stan Skelton, director of strategic product planning for Symbios said, "Symbios and VERITAS are together addressing several areas of high-end storage management in an effort to improve the overall quality and performance of storage technology. The outcome of our work will be cost-effective, total storage solutions which will give the user the high-level of data availability, reliability and ease of use that the industry is waiting for. For example, in a SAN environment, users will be able to access information from any device on the network and in many instances, by-pass the host to access the data faster. With the VERITAS storage management software, this management intelligence can become a reality."
Vixel
"Storage Management Software is a strategic requirement for deployment of the SAN. VERITAS is in a unique position to accelerate the adoption of the SAN in heterogeneous NT and UNIX clustered environments, with their File System, Volume Manager and related storage management software products. Customers that purchase and interface VERITAS' software and Vixel's integrated family of Rapport hubs and switches along with Vixel's fault management software will be assured of the highest level of data availability, performance, and scalability at the lowest cost of ownership for a true end-to-end SAN solution," said Greg Olbright, President and CEO of Vixel Corporation.
CONTACT: VERITAS Software Corporation
Melinda Mattei, 650/335-8566
melinda@veritas.com
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