 "Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 HA For Windows")
Symantec announced Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 High Availability (HA) for Windows, a solution that delivers data and application availability for Microsoft Windows environments. It combines two industry solutions–Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server–together with enhanced usability tools to simplify storage management, high availability and disaster recovery for mission-critical Windows applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint Portal Server.
“Storage Foundation HA for Windows offers enterprises unique capabilities in non-disruptive storage operations, scalable high availability, and disaster recovery solutions along with centralized storage visibility and control that are must-have requirements for Windows environments,” said Laura DuBois, research director, Storage Software at IDC.
Veritas Storage Foundation helps manage explosive data growth, optimize storage hardware investments, provide application availability and drive down operational costs via a set of standard tools for Windows, Linux, and UNIX environments. Storage Foundation for Windows introduces new capabilities to help users standardize their storage and high availability software infrastructure.
New to this release is Veritas Storage Foundation Basic for Windows, designed for edge-tier and infrastructure workloads, enabling customers to leverage Storage Foundation for Windows and capitalize on the benefits of a standard infrastructure solution across every server in their data center.
“Standardization on Storage Foundation HA for Windows allows customers to have more flexibility in their storage hardware decisions and drives down operational costs by enabling them to use a single tool,” said Anand Naik, director system engineering , Symantec India and SAARC.
Symantec will add support for Storage Foundation Management Server, which provides comprehensive visibility and control throughout the data center infrastructure. This multi-host management capability enables IT organizations to centrally manage their application, server, and storage environments, leading to rapid problem resolution, simplified data migrations, higher service levels, and reduced risk of human error.