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To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (14214)	8/14/1998 3:01:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

Symbios And Veritas Sign Storage Pact EE Times - 08/14/98; 1:14 p.m. Symbios and Veritas Software have linked up to address the increasingly complex storage-system industry. The two will leverage Symbios' expertise in Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) systems and Veritas' knowledge of storage-system software. The pact was signed this week as Symbios formally became part of LSI Logic, Milpitas, Calif. LSI paid $760 million to Hyundai for Symbios, a maker of storage-management chips and systems, after an acquisition attempt by Adaptec was quashed by government regulators. Symbios and Veritas, Mountain View, Calif., will share research and expect to develop some products together. Veritas does not work in hardware, and Symbios does no software, other than what its RAID systems use internally. "Symbios makes primarily storage-hardware systems, though there's a lot of software value inside our RAID boxes," said Stan Skelton, director of strategic planning at Symbios, Fort Collins, Colo. "There is a larger picture that we need to fit into, and Veritas complements that need. From their perspective, we have an open, proven hardware platform for them to showcase their software on." The agreement was reached as two distinct advances are making storage a more complex game than in the past. Fibre Channel is letting storage subsystems grow larger than in the past, and storage-attached networks are adding another level of complexity. "As the industry moves forward, Fibre Channel gets to be a much bigger issue than managing a few SCSI [Small Computer System Interface] disks," Skelton said. "When you go to Fibre Channel and storage-attached networks, there are more things you have to think about like routers [and] tape devices, and you need to take more of a system perspective." The partners feel that the pact will let them move ahead quickly. Customers will see a variety of benefits, Skelton said. "There will be combination products, probably coming later this year, especially in the network-attached area," he said. "There will be the assurance that they know a Veritas product will be compatible with ours and vice versa." Though the two aren't currently planning to add other partners, the deal doesn't preclude arrangements with other companies. And as the industry becomes more complex, further agreements are expected to emerge. "I don't think there's anything exclusive about this. We'd both prefer it not to be, because that would negate the openness both companies have," Skelton said. "There will be other pieces the two of us can't fulfill, so we will probably look to other companies." o~~~ O