Symantec announces Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 HA

RELATED NEWS Symantec announce availability of Veritas Cluster Server Symantec to provide messaging mgmt for Exchange Server 2007 Symantec announces OpenStorage API Symantec launches new global sales expert training program Nifty BSE | NSE 25/05/12 Are Mutual Funds betting on Nifty?

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 High Availability (HA) for Windows, a comprehensive solution that delivers data and application availability for Microsoft Windows environments. It combines two industry-leading solutions?Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server?together with enhanced usability tools to simplify storage management, high availability and disaster recovery for mission-critical Windows applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint Portal Server.

 

"Customers are placing more of their mission critical applications on the Windows platform. They need storage management solutions that provide higher availability and better disaster recovery than ever before," said Laura DuBois, research director, Storage Software at IDC.

 

"Storage Foundation HA for Windows offers enterprises unique capabilities in non-disruptive storage operations, scalable high availability, and disaster recovery solutions?along with centralized storage visibility and control that are must-have requirements for Windows environments."

 

Software Infrastructure Standardization for the Data Center

 

Veritas Storage Foundation helps manage explosive data growth, optimize storage hardware investments, provide unparalleled application availability and drive down operational costs via a set of standard tools for Windows, Linux, and UNIX environments. Storage Foundation for Windows introduces new capabilities to help users standardize their storage and high availability software infrastructure.

 

New to this release is Veritas Storage Foundation Basic for Windows, a free version of Storage Foundation for Windows, designed for edge-tier and infrastructure workloads, enabling customers to leverage Storage Foundation for Windows and capitalize on the benefits of a standard infrastructure solution across every server in their data center.

 

Contd on page 2....