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    Updated: Mike Reynolds PMM 04 Sep 2012

    New Release: Introducing Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware

      Virtualization is everywhere, but IT organizations are still looking for ways to cut costs.  One way to do that, is to…  virtualize even more applications!  However, the easy stuff has been done.  File and print servers, cafeteria menus and the company picnic blog have been virtualized.  The next step is to move up the chain and virtualize business and mission critical applications.  But the risks of virtualization are still there.  How do I monitor and protect my application and business services in the event of a failure, or even a site wide disaster?  What happens to the performance or availability of my data when a path connecting a virtual machine to the storage fails?  These are the roadblocks that are preventing IT organizations from virtualizing more of their business critical services and applications.  The good news is Symantec can help!   Symantec is announcing a new version of...
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    Updated: c3lsius 08 Oct 2012

    New Release: Introducing Veritas Operations Manager 5.0 and Veritas Operations Manager Advanced 5.0

      Symantec today announced the release of Veritas Operations Manager 5.0 and Veritas Operations Manager Advanced 5.0- both of which take the next step in minimizing risk, managing complexity and maximizing storage utilization in your data center. If you have used any of these products, we'd like to hear from you. Blog about your experience and get a chance to win a $2000 gift card. Learn more here. Overview Veritas Operations Manager is a storage and availability resource management platform for Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server that automates manual tasks and monitors the health of IT resources. With Veritas Operations Manager, you gain increased visibility and control when managing critical business services across virtual, physical and cloud environments. You can discover, analyze, and forecast...
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    Updated: jmartin 08 Aug 2012

    New Release: Symantec Operations Readiness Tool 3.7

    On July 26, 2012, Symantec completed another release of Symantec Operations Readiness Tool (SORT). With SORT’s focus of improving the total customer experience for NetBackup and Storage Foundation customers, we’ve added the following features and improvements to the website: Storage Foundation High Availability Solutions: Enhanced patch lookup functionality (https://sort.symantec.com/patch/patch_lookup) Users can now enter a patch name in addition to a patch ID New patch lookup widget on MySORT (https://mysort.symantec.com) Inclusion of problem remediation commands in Risk Assessment reports Ability to run Risk Assessment reports against vxexplorer data using a new SORT data collector option (VxReplay) Display Oracle Linux in Product/Platform matrix (https...
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    Updated: jmartin 28 Jan 2013

    New Release: Symantec Operations Readiness Tool 3.6

    Symantec's new release of Symantec Operations Readiness Tool (SORT) is synchronized with the release of NetBackup 7.5 and Storage Foundation’s release of DMP for VMWare. With SORT’s focus of improving the total customer experience for NetBackup and Storage Foundation customers, we’ve added the following features and improvements to the website: A platform perspective approach to obtaining product information in SORT Enter an Operating System, version (and sub-version) in the product matrix for Storage Foundation products to see the corresponding supported product versions A platform filter on the documentation page (https://sort.symantec.com/documents) A platform filter on the VOM page (https://sort.symantec.com/vom) Support for OpsCenter in NetBackup custom reports The ability to navigate to key...
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    Updated: c3lsius 09 Apr 2012

    New Release: Symantec Data Insight 3.0

    Overview A majority of an organization’s information is unstructured, and data growth is exploding. Despite best efforts and significant investments, IT lacks critical insights, such as who owns the data and how it’s being used. This leads to significant challenges in managing an organization’s data governance objectives – protecting important business data, achieving regulatory compliance and driving down costs and improving efficiency to manage this rapid data growth. What is Data Insight? Symantec Data Insight helps organizations improve data governance through data owner identification and visibility into data usage and access permissions. With these insights into the data, organizations are able to manage data growth in order to reduce costs, protect the data from security risks and manage compliance. Data Management and Storage Optimization: Discover inactive or orphan...
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    Updated: jmartin 28 Jan 2013

    New Release: Symantec Operations Readiness Tool 3.5

    We're happy to announce the release of Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT). This release fully supports the Storage Foundation 6.0 and Veritas Operations Manager 4.1 releases, and also includes many user-requested features for Storage Foundation and NetBackup products, including: Addition of NetBackup Appliance support in the Installation and Upgrade Checklist! (https://sort.symantec.com/checklist/install#report) Inclusion of SPVU license reporting in the Unix data collector New OS and product filtering for the Storage Foundation patch table (https://sort.symantec.com/patch/matrix) OpsCenter support in release auditor (https://sort.symantec.com/netbackup) Support for NetBackup release 7.1.0.3 Updated GUI data...
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    Updated: Chaya Adatrao 16 Nov 2011

    New Release: Symantec ApplicationHA 6.0 for Windows

    As IT organizations continue to rapidly deploy virtualization, ensuring availability of applications in their virtual environments is critical. Since its initial launch last year, Symantec ApplicationHA helped numerous customers quickly and automatically recover from a wide range of application and infrastructure failures inside virtual machines.    Symantec recently announced the latest release of Symantec ApplicationHA 6.0 for Windows. This release includes integration of Symantec ApplicationHA with Symantec Backup Exec which takes application availability to a new  level by providing another level of remediation to recover from failures in VMware virtual environments. This new feature provides virtual machine image restoration as a possible remediation mechanism if application restart and virtual machine restart both fail in recovering an application. In the event of a corrupt virtual machine or OS image, Symantec ApplicationHA coordinates with...
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    Updated: DLamorena 16 Aug 2012

    New Release: Get the Private Cloud you Want From the Infrastructure You’ve Got

    Symantec today announced a major refresh to its Storage and Availability Management portfolio to help customers build the private cloud they want by transforming their existing infrastructure. Symantec’s high availability solutions will enable users to architect resilient private clouds with fast local or global recovery of complete business services and data replication across any distance to meet their recovery time/point objectives. Symantec can orchestrate the recovery of a business service, even if its components (various databases, application servers, and web servers) run on different operating systems or virtualization technologies.  As more IT organizations move to the cloud, Symantec’s new storage management offerings will also help IT organizations manage and deliver elastic, resilient storage for cloud workloads by providing the ability to scale storage capacity up or down while applications remain online and reducing the storage footprint...
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    Updated: jmartin 28 Jan 2013

    New Release: Symantec Operations Readiness Tool

    Symantec has completed a new release of our Symantec Operations Readiness Tool (SORT).  In our continued pursuit to improve the total customer experience for our Storage Foundation and NetBackup customers, we’ve added the following features and improvements to the website: Storage Foundation license calculator (and widget) for per core and per server tier license calculations [http://sort.symantec.com/spvu_calc] Windows array device drivers (DDIs/DDLs) [http://sort.symantec.com/asl] Improved notification set-up flow and user interface [http://sort.symantec.com/welcome/notifications] Simplified Chinese and Japanese product documentation Hot fix and EEB release auditor widget for NetBackup [http://sort.symantec.com/NetBackup...
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    Updated: Jennifer Ellard 27 Jun 2011

    Virtualizing Business Critical Applications with Confidence

    Today Symantec announced the latest release of ApplicationHA, a new solution that provides high availability for business critical applications through application-level visibility, control and recovery in VMware environments. We’re particularly excited about this new release as it addresses some key concerns shared by data center administrators as they virtualize their infrastructures. Administrators are cautious with virtualizing their applications as their criticality grows. Symantec’s recent Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey concluded that in spite of executives’ concerns, more than 59 percent plan to virtualize database applications in the next 12 months. We see that tier 3 applications are virtualized more than tier 2 and tier 2 more than tier 1. There are a few key challenges along...