Symantec has announced the general availability of its
Storage Foundation 5.0 family of products that provide visibility
and control over complex datacentre storage
environments.
The company is also releasing for general availability Veritas
Cluster Server 5.0, a key component of the Veritas Server
Foundation family, which reduces planned and unplanned application
and database downtime.
Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 and Veritas Cluster Server 5.0
are core components of the Symantec Data Centre Foundation solution
family, claimed to be the only offering that allows government and
enterprise customers to standardise on a single layer of
infrastructure software across their entire datacentre enabling
them to reduce datacentre complexity, improve service levels and
drive down operations costs.
Symantec says that its datacentre technology can realise
operational benefits such as the ability to train staff on one set
of tools instead of dozens of disparate supplier-specific tools;
enhanced negotiating leverage and flexibility in choosing among any
major storage and server supplier; and improved utilisation of
server and storage hardware assets. In addition, customers should,
it says, achieve significant direct cost savings.
By standardising on solutions like Veritas Storage Foundation
5.0 and Cluster Server 5.0, Symantec claims that enterprises can
avoid buying duplicate server and storage software from multiple
suppliers, and realise significant storage hardware savings by
moving data from high-cost tier one storage to lower cost tier two
storage.