Symantec Helps Virtualise Business Critical Apps

Symantec has announced it will offer Symantec ApplicationHA and Symantec VirtualStore, two solutions that will provide customers the ability to confidently virtualise their business critical applications and minimise storage costs on the VMware platform. ApplicationHA and VirtualStore are the result of extensive collaboration between Symantec and VMware.

“Information must be protected and applications available for our customers to access. As virtualisation becomes more widely adopted, customers need solutions that deliver higher availability and performance. Symantec and VMware are marrying Veritas Cluster Server functionality and VMware HA to improve business critical application availability,” said Anil Chakravarthy, Senior Vice President, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec. “With VirtualStore, we are helping organisations deal with the storage challenges that come from scaling virtual environments with a cost-effective solution that is tightly integrated with VMware vCenter Server.”

Symantec ApplicationHA and VirtualStore are seamlessly integrated with VMware management tools such as VMware vCenter Server, enabling customers to deploy these tools without impact on their operational model.

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Symantec ApplicationHA:

• Monitors applications’ health status and detects failures in the virtual machine

• Restarts failed applications

• Coordinates with VMware HA to restart the virtual machine, if needed

Symantec VirtualStore: Address Storage Challenges in Virtual Infrastructures

• Help customers reduce storage costs associated with virtual machine sprawl and improve the performance of virtual infrastructures

• Enable administrators to dramatically reduce the cost per virtual machine by repurposing existing storage investments or using inexpensive or commodity storage

• Help IT organisations reduce their storage footprint by storing only the differences between the parent virtual machine image and each clone

• Significantly drive down total cost of ownership by taking advantage of the benefits of thin provisioning

“VMware and Symantec have built a strong partnership, and it’s exciting to see the results of our collaboration, including improved management of virtual environments and increased levels of availability. Our joint customers look to us to help solve real-world problems through innovation, and we continue to work together to help customers progress on their journey to IT as a Service,” said Parag Patel, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware.