Stories about: Veritas

Symantec Corp. today announced several enhancements to its storage management suite, its cluster file and cluster server system, including the ability to recognize solid state drives used in tiered storage as well as integration with Hyper-V.

Symantec has announced that it has enhanced three of its flagship products – Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server – with support for migrating data into and out of solid state drives and the ability to reclaim unused storage. In addition, the company has enhanced the failover capabilities of Veritas Cluster File System to work with structured data in Oracle, Sybase or IBM DB2 applications.

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the findings of its 2009 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, reflecting the attitudes and practices of small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) and their customers toward technology disaster preparedness.

Delivering on its data deduplication strategy, Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced new releases to its NetBackup Platform to help organisations improve operational and storage efficiencies across physical and virtual environments.

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced market share leadership in both security and storage software in Asia Pacific and Japan, according to the IDC Asia/Pacific and Japan Semiannual Software Tracker H2 2008.

Symantec today announced enhancements to Veritas CommandCentral, a storage optimisation suite that helps organisations stop buying storage and reduce operational costs. Veritas CommandCentral Storage now includes new agentless capabilities which speed time-to-value – helping customers reduce storage capital costs by increasing storage utilisation and control demand by mapping storage consumption to business applications

Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed server, one of 48 systems comprising a major online infrastructure that generated about US$4 million per month in revenue. He was a bit surprised that the system had gone down, as it had been humming for months without any indication of being prone to crashing. The check uncovered three encrypted files. The administrator called on MANDIANT to analyse them.

Symantec launched a new online software licensing program on Nov. 6, about the same time it unveiled Veritas Backup Exec 11d. Users are complaining that they have to wait for Backup Exec upgrade notices because of a backlog of people trying to register on the new licensing site. Symantec's CIO, David Thompson, and public relations manager, Cris Paden, told Computerworld that the new licensing system is necessary to help thwart a "humongous" piracy ring that has been costing Symantec more than US$10 million every year. Excerpts from the interview follow:

It's always interesting to see the public response to a game-changing acquisition, namely EMC buying RSA Security. This deal changes the security landscape, so I need to come up with a new name for EMC. How about EMCecurity (pronounced E-M-See-curity)? I kind of like that.

Bill Robbins, incoming senior vice president of Symantec Asia Pacific and Japan, believes EMC's proposed $US2 billion takeover of RSA Security validates the company's recent Veritas merger.