VERITAS 2003 Review

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VERITAS leads Gartner's Backup and Restore Software Magic Quadrant for the third year in a row [11259].

VERITAS maintained leadership in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reports for the enterprise backup and SAN management software markets:

"VERITAS focuses exclusively on software, leaving to our customers the choice of hardware and storage platforms. This approach continues to be successful, as our customers want the flexibility to adapt to changing conditions and the simplification that only software can provide in a heterogeneous world," said Mark Bregman, executive vice president of product operations, VERITAS Software [9981].

VERITAS participated in the SunNetworkSM 2003 Conference as a Platinum sponsor, where they showcased products such as VERITAS NetBackup, VERITAS Indepth for JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM), VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle and more [10973].

Sun and VERITAS have a long-standing and successful relationship:

"Sun brings value to the relationship by putting the VERITAS NetBackup solution into the Sun solution stack and integrating it at the highest levels, from the platform to the OS to the network to the storage array and tape libraries. We provide an integratable stack, making sure the NetBackup products are really integrated to show the true end-to-end architecture of Sun," Joseph Catalanotti of the Sun Storage Group said in article [9686]. See also [9292].

During 2003 VERITAS released an enhanced version of VERITAS Bare Metal Restore software. The software is designed to automate the rapid recovery of heterogeneous server environments, making it unnecessary to manually reinstall operating systems or configure hardware; see [9979] and [9980].

Other VERITAS products covered in this section in 2003:

VERITAS Desktop and Laptop Option: The VERITAS Desktop and Laptop Option offers transparent protection of mission-critical corporate data that resides on the millions of laptops and desktops in small-to-medium size businesses and large enterprises. The VERITAS Desktop and Laptop Option also allows users to automatically synchronize data among multiple machines with a single click [11505].

VERITAS i[3]: The VERITAS i[3] solution continuously collects metrics on performance to increase the productivity of an application. VERITAS i3 uses three components to quickly provide a complete picture of performance problems: Insight, Indepth and Inform. Learn more in articles [10608], [10606] and [10609].

VERITAS Volume Replicator: VERITAS Volume Replicator replicates data to remote locations over any IP network in synchronous or asynchronous mode for maximum business continuity [10259].

VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS Volume Replicator software were found to mirror data to a secondary location as much as 72 percent faster than SRDF replication software from EMC Corp and at a fraction of the cost in the GiantLoop Testing and Certification (GTAC) Lab [10260].

VERITAS Global Cluster Manager is a complete disaster tolerant solution. The software is an out-of-the-box solution that allows administrators to centralize control of their disaster recovery environment on all major platforms, including AIX, HP-UX, Linux, the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) and Windows [10257].

VERITAS Global Cluster Manager can also extend the capability of VERITAS Cluster Server [8938].

Read up on its main features in [10261]. For a 15-page white paper detailing the VERITAS Global Cluster Manager, see [10258].

VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 [11503]: 5.0 features faster disk-based backup, advanced data protection techniques and both desktop and laptop data protection.

Success stories and case studies of VERITAS include:

Appshop: An enterprise applications solution provider, Appshop wanted to standardize its data centers on one data management solution. They chose VERITAS NetBackup DataCenter, VERITAS Foundation Suite and VERITAS Volume Manager for its reliability [9090].

Critical Path: As a global provider of business-to-business Internet messaging and collaboration solutions, it chose VERITAS Cluster server and the VERITAS File System to reduce long delays and improve the existing cluster's performance [9091].

Carnival Cruise Lines: "VERITAS Indepth for Oracle has been a powerful analysis product and a huge time-saver for us," said Pamela Cole-Stanley, a database administrator for Carnival Cruise Lines. "It anticipates and avoids problems..." [10607].

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