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Server Foundation förbättrar insynen i, hanteringen av och tillgängligheten på applikationer och servrar. Storage Foundation levererar insyn i och kontroll av datacenter.

30 maj, 2006 - Symantec lanserar idag två nya lösningar – Veritas Storage Foundation och Veritas Server Foundation. Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 är nästa generations teknologi för lagringshantering och virtualisering. Lösningen kommer att ge IT-organisationer en insyn i och en kontroll av, alla sina server- och lagringstillgångar i sina datacenter som de tidigare inte haft. De är utrustade med avsevärda förbättringar; ny centraliserad hanteringsfunktionalitet, förbättrad lagringsvirtualisering och full support för företagets applikationer och databaser. Storage Foundation 5.0 släpps på de olika operativsystemens plattformar samtidigt och gör det möjligt för IT-organisationerna att standardisera lagringsverksamheten genom hela datacentret.

Veritas Server Foundation består av Veritas Configuration Manager och Veritas Provisioning Manager som kompletterats med ny funktionalitet i Veritas Cluster Server. Veritas Server Foundation ger företagskunder möjlighet att i detalj upptäcka vad som körs på alla servrar i sina datacenter, aktivt hantera och administrera dessa servrar samt försäkra sig om att affärskritiska applikationer körs på de servrar som alltid är tillgängliga.

– För att ge IT-administratörerna kontroll över sina datacenter, behöver de insyn i vad de har, en förståelse för hur delarna relaterar till varandra och hög tillgänglighet. Att kombinera konfigurationshantering och klustring är logiskt då man vill förbättra pålitligheten i klustren och hanteringen, säger Donna Scott, VP och analytiker på Gartner, Inc. Att utöka paketet med server provisioning ger grunden för dynamisk skalbarhet. På så sätt kan företagen möta affärslivets föränderliga krav och utnyttja kostnader och resurser bättre.

Om IT-organisationer ska kunna möta de växande krav som ställs på dem och samtidigt kunna kontrollera kostnaderna så måste de dramatiskt minska komplexiteten datacentrens infrastruktur och få optimal användning av värdefulla datacentertillgångar som servrar, lagringshårdvara och IT-personal. Detta kräver förmåga att låta lagringshanteringen gå bortom enskilda applikationer, servrar eller lagringsenheter.

Symantec har omarbetat sitt erbjudande kring Veritas Storage Foundation för att ge IT-organisationerna insyn i applikations- och lagringsresurserna över hela datacentret, över varje större operativsystem och plattform för lagring och en förmåga att proaktivt ta kontroll över sin lagringsmiljö. Ingen annan leverantör kan tillhandahålla en sådan funktionalitet, inte ens för ett enda operativsystem eller plattform för lagringshårdvara. Symantec lanserar den funktionaliteten för att stödja alla större operativsystemmiljöer och alla större enheter för lagringshårdvara.

– Veritas Storage Foundation är ett avgörande steg i Symantecs engagemang för att hjälpa sina kunder att optimera sina datacentermiljöer som innehåller många olika plattformar, säger Linus Svensson, teknisk chef för Symantec i Norden. Symantecs lösning ger en unik förmåga för företag att administrera och övervaka hela sin datalagringsmiljö.

Tillgänglighet

Veritas Storage Foundation Basic och Veritas CommandCentral Storage finns nu tillgängliga på www.symantec.com Veritas Provisioning Manager 4.1 och Veritas Configuration Manager 5.0 finns också tillgängliga nu. Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 och Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 kommer finnas tillgänglig under tredje kvartalet 2006. Produkterna kommer finnas tilgängliga genom Symantecs säljstyrka, återförsäljare, system integratörer och utvalda OEM partner.

Om Symantec

Symantec är världsledande i att tillhandahålla lösningar för att hjälpa privatpersoner och företag att garantera säkerhet, tillgänglighet och informationsintegritet. Företaget har sitt huvudkontor i Cupertino, Kalifornien och bedriver verksamhet i mer än 40 länder. Mer information finns på http://www.symantec.se

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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 www.symantec.com/consulting.