STK & VRTS OSLM Standard Initiative
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Monday January 11, 11:40 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
StorageTek and VERITAS to Drive the Industry Standard for Open
Systems Library Management
LOUISVILLE, Colo. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jan. 11, 1999--
Alliance Spawns New Product Development Enabling Customers To Better Manage And Share Storage Resources
StorageTek, (Storage Technology Corp., NYSE:STK) the leading tape automation vendor, and VERITAS® Software Corporation (NASDAQ:VRTS - news), the leading provider of end-to-end storage management software, today announced an alliance that aims to revolutionize how UNIX and Windows NT customers manage their open-systems tape storage. With
wide support from application vendors and independent hardware vendors (IHVs), StorageTek and VERITAS will drive an industry standard for open media and tape management.
''The tape library market has been limited by inefficiencies in tape library management,'' said Perry Harris, director of management strategies, Yankee Group. ''StorageTek and VERITAS are taking on current tape library management problems so that customers can better manage their tape storage and get the most out of their investment.''
Today, library and tape drives are dedicated to single applications, with no way to share library resources across platforms or multiple applications, such as backup/restore and Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM). Tape library customers also have no way to centrally manage tape libraries. These limitations have impeded the expanded use of tape storage for different storage management applications. As a result, customers have poor utilization of library resources and high costs of ownership. Moreover, data-intensive environments are growing rapidly, compounding the need for a standard solution that will allow more efficient management of tape resources.
''The storage industry is being revolutionized by the emergence of open technology, SANs, and wide-spread use of data intensive applications,'' said Sylvia Summers, vice president and general manager for StorageTek's Multiplatform Business Group. ''Our alliance with VERITAS solves a major manageability and cost of ownership issue in UNIX and NT environments. The open standard that StorageTek and VERITAS will drive with the help of ISVs and IHVs will work with
any server, any operating system, application and tape library to manage information assets in the exploding heterogeneous
enterprise.''
Under the terms of the agreement, StorageTek and VERITAS will jointly develop a standard library management technology. This technology will act as a robust interface between tape libraries and servers running various storage management applications, enabling customers to fully utilize and share information across multiple applications and operating systems.
Through their existing alliances and leadership positions in the industry, StorageTek and VERITAS have laid the groundwork for library vendors to productize the standard technology with strong ISV support. VERITAS has signed OEM agreements with the industry's tape library vendors for its VERITAS Media Librarian (VML) and StorageTek has over 30 ISVs that write to its Automated Cartridge System (ACS) API. These combined market strengths enable the rest of the industry to adopt the
standard with ease. StorageTek and VERITAS also intend to support Microsoft's Removable Storage Manager (RSM) API for Windows 2000.
The StorageTek/VERITAS initiative also ensures that any ISV's software can instantly take advantage of advanced library features without further specific software development. StorageTek and VERITAS are currently collaborating with existing OEM partners, ISVs and library vendors to work through open standardization and interoperability issues.
''StorageTek and VERITAS have a shared vision for the way customers, ISVs and library vendors optimize their open system storage devices,'' said Peter Levine, senior vice president OEM sales, mergers and acquisitions, VERITAS. ''Our combined strengths and recent collaboration will bring many benefits to our mutual customers, as well as help grow the usage of the tape libraries and introduce new tape applications.''
The first StorageTek products to result from this alliance of market leaders will ship later in 1999.
About StorageTek
StorageTek is the preeminent provider of network computing storage. The company's products and services are used to store,
transport and secure more than 100 petabytes of the world's information, ranging from mainframe data to client/server
applications to video, audio and still images. The company (Storage Technology Corp., NYSE:STK), based in Louisville,
Colo., reported earnings of $232 million on revenue of $2.1 billion in 1997. Information on StorageTek is available on the
World Wide Web at storagetek.com or phone at 1-800-STORTEK.
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,
Asia-Pacific and Japan. The company's corporate headquarters is located at 1600 Plymouth Street, Mountain View, CA
94043; Telephone: 650/335-8000; Fax: 650/335-8050; email: vxsales@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 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. |
