Symantec lanserer Server Foundation og Storage Foundation 5.0

Oslo, 8. juni 2006 - Symantec lanserer i dag to nye løsninger: Veritas Storage Foundation og Veritas Server Foundation. Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 er neste generasjons teknologi for lagringshåndtering og virtualisering. Løsningen kommer til å gi IT-organisasjonene nye muligheter når det gjelder innsyn i og kontroll av alle sine servere og lagringsenheter.

Systemene er utstyrt med en rekke forbedringer som: ny sentralisert håndteringsfunksjonalitet, forbedret lagringsvirtualisering og full støtte for bedriftens ulike applikasjoner og databaser. Storage Foundation 5.0 lanseres for en rekke operativsystemer samtidig, slik at det blir mulig for IT-organisasjonene å standardisere lagringsvirksomheten i hele datasenteret.

Veritas Server Foundation består av Veritas Configuration Manager og Veritas Provisioning Manager, som utvides med ny funksjonalitet i Veritas Cluster Server. Veritas Server Foundation gir kundene mulighet til detaljert innsikt i sine servere slik at man kan se hvilke prosesser som kjører på alle servere. Systemet gir mulighet for aktiv håndtering og administrering av serverne samtidig som at man kan forsikre seg om at virksomhetskritiske applikasjoner kjører på de serverne som alltid er tilgjengelige.

– For å gi IT-ansvarlige kontroll over datasentraene sine trenger de innsynd i hva de har, og en forståelse av hvordan de ulike delene relateres til hverandre og bidrar til høy tilgjengelighet. Det er logisk å kombinere konfigurasjonshåndtering og klyngestyring dersom man vil forbedre ytelsen, sier Donna Scott, VP og analytiker hos Gartner Inc. Ved å utvide løsningen med server provisioning gir muligheten til dynamisk skalerbarhet. Dermed kan selskapene møte stadig skiftende krav og utnytte kostnader og ressurser bedre.

Symantec har omarbeidet det eksisterende tilbudet på Veritas Storage Foundation slik at det gir IT-administratorene innsyn i applikasjons- og lagringsressursene i hele datasenteret. I tillegg gir systemet oversikt over hvert enkelt operativsystem, lagringsplattform og en mulighet til å ta kontroll over lagringsmiljøet. Ingen andre programvareleverandører kan vise til slik funksjonalitet, ikke engang for ett enkelt operativsystem eller en plattform for lagringsenheter. Symantec lanserer denne funksjonaliteten slik at man kan støtte alle større operativsystemer og alle større enheter for lagringshardware.

– Veritas Storage Foundation er et avgjørende skritt i Symantecs satsning på å hjelpe sine kunder med å optimalisere sine datasentermiljøer, miljøer med en rekke ulike plattformer. Det sier Linus Svensson, teknisk sjef for Symantec i Norden. Symantecs løsning gir en unik mulighet til å administrere og overvåke hele sitt datalagringsmiljø.

Tilgjengelighet
Veritas Storage Foundation Basic og Veritas CommandCentral Storage er tilgjengelig på www.symantec.com. I tillegg er Veritas Provisioning Manager 4.1 og Veritas Configuration Manager 5.0 tilgjengelige. Veritas Storage Foundation og Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 blir tilgjengelige i tredje kvartal i 2006. Produktene vil bli tilgjengelige gjennom Symantecs salgsapparat og nettverk av forhandlere og distributører.

Om Symantec

Symantec er verdens ledende leverandør av løsninger som hjelper enkeltmennesker og bedrifter å sørge for informasjonsintegritet gjennom sikkerhets-, og tilgjengelighetsløsninger. Selskapet har hovedkvarter i Cupertino, California, og har kontorer i mer enn 40 land. Mer informasjon finnes på www.symantec.no.

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About Storage Foundation
Differentiated Capabilities to Master Complexity
Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 will include Storage Foundation Management Server, a completely new technology providing centralized multi-host management capabilities across Unix, Linux, and Windows. This unique offering enables enterprise-wide visibility, control, and standardization of the data center infrastructure. It enables IT organizations to centrally manage their application, server, and storage environments, leading to faster application deployment times, simplified data migrations, higher service levels, reduced risk of human error, and more comprehensive visibility and control throughout the environment. Storage Foundation Management Server supports Veritas Storage Foundation 4.x and 5.0, which means customers can view and manage all such instances of Storage Foundation, across their entire data center, through a single, unified tool.

- The Chicago Board Options Exchange processes an average of 400,000,000 quote transactions each day and it is vital that we protect and optimize our critical trading systems. Veritas Storage Foundation Management Server gives us unprecedented visibility and control of our storage and application resources to support this huge volume of information, while helping drastically reduce data center operational costs, explained Curt Schumacher, chief technology officer, Chicago Board Options Exchange. We've used Veritas Storage Foundation for eight years to provide a standard management layer to reduce complexity in our data center. With this latest release, Symantec continues to help us increase our efficiency, so we can focus on initiatives that benefit our customers.

Symantec is also introducing Veritas Storage Foundation Basic, a free version of Storage Foundation designed for edge-tier and infrastructure workloads that make it easier and more affordable for customers to enjoy the dramatic benefits of standardizing their data center infrastructure software. Veritas Storage Foundation Basic combines the industry-leading Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager, and advanced Dynamic Multi-pathing, for system configurations that do not exceed 4 volumes, 4 file systems and/or 2 processors in a single physical system. An enterprise support offering for Storage Foundation Basic, which is optional, is offered on a subscription basis. Like Veritas Storage Foundation 4.x and 5.0, Veritas Storage Foundation Basic can be managed centrally with Storage Foundation Management Server, extending the power of Symantec’s approach to a unified storage management platform beyond mission-critical environments to every server and application workload in the data center.

Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST), a feature of Storage Foundation, enables data mobility so that companies can reduce storage costs by matching the appropriate storage hardware tier to the application, and moving information to different tiers of online storage as the value and priority of the information change over time. Administrators can use policies to move data across multiple tiers of storage within an application, in a live multi-platform environment, without affecting production systems or impacting users.

Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP), part of Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, is an advanced multi-pathing technology that delivers enhanced I/O performance, device discovery and path failover throughout the SAN. Storage Foundation Management Server will fully support DMP management, resulting in increased visibility into the storage environment, and reduced risk. For example, IT managers can execute storage array and HBA upgrades simultaneously, scaling across multiple hosts, and minimize the potential for human error by checking connections, redundancy, and other factors before initiating tasks.

As part of Symantec’s high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) solution, the management of Veritas Volume Replicator has been significantly enhanced by the introduction of Storage Foundation Management Server. By enabling centralized management of systems protected by Veritas Volume Replicator, IT organizations can efficiently scale HA/DR operations. In addition, with its new Bunker Replication feature, Veritas Volume Replicator enables synchronous data replication to a ‘bunker’ site, while simultaneously replicating asynchronously to a remote location. Bunker replication ensures no application transactions are lost in the event of a failure and supports replication over any distance. Veritas Volume Replicator fully supports heterogeneous Unix, Linux, and Windows operating systems and heterogeneous storage, providing IT organizations with unrivalled choice and flexibility in selecting the most appropriate and cost-effective platforms for their needs.

Veritas CommandCentral Storage, a storage resource management and SAN management solution, is now part of the Veritas Storage Foundation product family, and provides comprehensive storage management, storage capacity planning and reporting, and business visibility into the storage infrastructure, supporting SAN, NAS, and DAS architectures. CommandCentral Storage scales to meet the needs of the world’s largest storage environments, and offers industry leading storage management capabilities enabling administrators to understand more clearly how storage resources are being utilized and to take control and maximize storage utilization and value.

Services for Veritas Storage Foundation
Symantec Global Services provides a broad portfolio of consulting services that allow customers to take full advantage of the advanced new capabilities in the Veritas Storage Foundation product family, to reduce data center complexity and infrastructure cost, increase data center availability and agility, and address storage-related IT risks. Symantec consultants offer comprehensive storage assessments, design, enablement and expert on-site services to help customers manage and standardize their storage infrastructures. Symantec's storage experts can also help customers reduce IT costs by optimizing Tiered Storage and Storage Migration initiatives. More information on Symantec service offerings can be found at www.symantec.com/consulting.

About Server Foundation
Veritas Server Foundation Delivers Visibility
Server Foundation includes Veritas Configuration Manager (formerly Relicore Clarity), recently acquired by Symantec, which helps administrators comprehensively understand what is running in the data center, and track how it’s changing. Veritas Configuration Manager discovers all the servers and applications in the data center, as well as their configurations and the dependencies between them. It then tracks any changes to these configurations and dependencies in real-time, and can compare current configurations to established standards to ensure internal and external compliance.

- It’s simply impossible to effectively run a data center unless you understand what is actually in it, said Kris Hagerman, senior vice president of Symantec’s Data Center Management Group. With the new Veritas Server Foundation, we are giving customers the unique capability to understand exactly what is in their server and application environment in real time – and the power to manage and optimize that environment, and to ensure their mission critical applications are always available, no matter what.

Veritas Server Foundation Delivers Control
With Veritas Provisioning Manager (formerly OpForce), Veritas Server Foundation lowers labor costs and reduces error rates by automating many common, routine tasks such as provisioning servers and applications, deploying patches, and rolling out new software packages – all through a centralized console.

Veritas Provisioning Manager speeds operating system and application deployment, providing IT with a cost-effective solution to ensure consistent deployments, while streamlining management. Veritas Provisioning Manager enables IT to automatically discover new bare metal or active servers, install operating systems, deploy and configure applications, and modify network settings. Administrators can quickly deploy servers, applications and patches in compliance with IT standards as well as define and schedule automated jobs and manage servers from a central location. Additionally, administrators can quickly and easily address configuration issues identified by Veritas Configuration Manager.

Veritas Server Foundation Delivers Availability
Veritas Server Foundation includes new features in Veritas Cluster Server designed to reduce both planned and unplanned downtime, whether due to hardware failures, data center wide disasters, or server maintenance, by automating local and wide area application failover.

The new Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 enables customers to monitor, manage, and report on multiple local and remote clusters from a single web-based console. In addition, Cluster Server 5.0 incorporates a feature called Fire Drill that allows organizations to easily perform non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery (DR) failovers to ensure reliability. Until now, DR testing required risky and time-intensive tests on production systems. As a result, most IT organizations have not tested their DR environment adequately, which leads to significant exposure that in the event of a disaster, those systems will not perform as intended. The Fire Drill feature automates the process of DR testing and allows administrators to verify that their DR plans will work, without affecting production systems.

In addition to Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Configuration Manager can also contribute to reducing downtime by preventing configuration drift that would otherwise prevent a failover from being successful. Configuration Manager also reduces planned downtime by creating dependency maps that help organizations understand the impact of changes before they are made.

Services for Veritas Server Foundation
Symantec Global Services provides a broad portfolio of consulting services that allow customers to take full advantage of the Veritas Server Foundation product family, to enhance server and application management, improve application availability, and address server and application-related IT risks. Symantec's high availability experts offer comprehensive availability assessments, design, implementation, and expert on-site services to help customers ensure that mission-critical applications are running and server configurations are up-to-date and consistent with established standards. More information on Symantec service offerings can be found at .