Veritas broadens utility computing support
Veritas Software Corporation plans to expand its Linux platform support for SUSE Linux and Vmware to provide customers with a greater range of choices for deploying enterprise Linux environments.
They now have a full an array of enterprise storage, data protection, high availability and automated provisioning software on both Linux platforms - SUSE Linux and Red Hat.
Veritas Cluster Server will now also be available for the VMware ESX Serve, providing customers with the first high availability option for Vmware.
Veritas delivers the fundamental building blocks for utility computing with heterogeneous availability, performance and automation software on all platforms, including Linux, through combining clustering, core storage management and server provisioning technologies.
Rainer Kraft, manager of systems technology at Indianapolis-based ATA Airlines explains how his company has benefited from the software: "At ATA Airlines, we established a heterogeneous enterprise including the Linux platform and must ensure that our complex IT infrastructure is highly available, which includes mission critical applications on Linux.
"With Veritas software's full-featured capabilities on Linux and UNIX operating systems, we are able to meet our business objectives by increasing the reliability of our complex IT infrastructure while at the same time reducing the number of hours required to manage our Linux and UNIX environments. Veritas helped us prove that Linux is a solid and cost-effective platform worthy of the enterprise."
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