Novell, Veritas boost Linux storage
Novell, Veritas boost Linux storage
Mar 24, 2005: Novell and Veritas have consolidated their relationship by offering new Linux storage management software for a select group of customers in a move that shows that Linux is gathering momentum in the enterprise.
Novell and Veritas have consolidated their relationship by offering new Linux storage management software for a select group of customers in a move that shows that Linux is gathering momentum in the enterprise.
These customers will be provided with early access to Veritas' Storage Foundation High Availability software on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, with general availability following the last quarter of the year.
Sanjay Poonen, the vice president of strategic alliances at Veritas software, said: "Linux adoption is rapidly gaining traction across the enterprise; greater platform and vendor choice continues to be a central value proposition for Veritas.
"Veritas began supporting the SUSE Linux platform in 2003. With the latest release of Veritas' Storage Foundation 4.1 for Linux, Veritas is asserting that Linux is enterprise-ready and a cost-effective option for meeting today's changing data centre requirements."
Veritas Storage Foundation HA, brings together Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System for the purpose of providing an integrated, online storage management and high availability solution for enterprises deploying either Unix or Linux.
David Patrick, Novell's vice president and general manager of Linux's open source platforms and services, added: "Novell is delighted to have Veritas' support of Novell's data centre Linux initiatives. Customers who are considering and planning data centre migrations from Unix to Linux will soon be able to confidently deploy the Veritas online storage management line of products on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 platform."
Some of the advantages of the Veritas Storage Foundation is its ability to provide storage area network support with dynamic multipathing, online storage management to reduce downtime, high performance file systems and database access and a stable, mature code base.
Veritas Volume Manager aids migration between Unix and Linux systems. The 4.1 release will allow up to 128 TB file systems support.
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