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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 15, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 37
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
VERITAS Enables Utility Computing
In Oracle Environments
VERITAS Software Corporation, a leading storage software provider,
announced
products to enable utility computing in Oracle environments. Over the last 10
years, VERITAS Software has consistently delivered on its promise to improve
the availability, performance and manageability of the Oracle database,
application server and E-Business Suite.
Utility computing represents a fundamental shift in the way that IT
delivers
applications to business users. Applications are managed to agreed upon levels
of availability and performance, adapting dynamically to changing business
demands. Hardware and labor costs are reduced through leveraging shared pools
of storage and servers and automatic provisioning of resources. VERITAS
Software provides the building blocks to enable utility computing -- across
any storage device, server, operating system or business application.
Availability
With more than half the UNIX and Windows market for backup and recovery,
VERITAS is the leading data protection solution for Oracle environments.
Oracle customers select VERITAS NetBackup for large, heterogeneous
environments and VERITAS Backup Exec for predominantly Windows environments.
VERITAS is also the leader in volume management, with nearly 70 percent of the
market, according to Gartner Group. VERITAS data protection and volume
management solutions include support for the widest range of platforms,
thousands of devices (such as tape drives, disk arrays and ATA disk devices),
and numerous storage networking protocols (including NDMP for network-attached
storage devices). The VERITAS NetBackup NDMP option includes advanced database
integration that helps further protect and optimize Oracle databases resident
on NAS devices.
Performance
VERITAS i3 (formerly Precise i3) application performance management
software
optimizes the performance of the Oracle database, application server and E-
Business Suite. VERITAS i3 also supports the most popular business
applications that run on top of the Oracle database -- including SAP, Siebel
and PeopleSoft. VERITAS i3 uniquely detects, diagnoses and corrects
performance problems from the application all the way down to the storage
array.
"I've devoted my career to understanding and managing Oracle and other
relational databases and I've found that VERITAS i3 is the very best tool on
the market," said Michael Corey, CEO of Ntirety, author of nine Oracle press
books and past president of International Oracle Users Group. "VERITAS i3 is
unique because it identifies, isolates, and fixes where the real problems lie,
even outside the database. For the past year, VERITAS i3 has helped Ntirety
boost the performance of our clients' Oracle environments and has been
instrumental in Ntirety achieving near-perfect scores in our customer quality
surveys."
VERITAS further enhances the performance and manageability of the Oracle
database through VERITAS Database Edition, based on its industry-leading
storage management software. Finally, backed by the industry's first and only
heterogeneous cluster file system, VERITAS Database Edition/Advanced Cluster
is designed to enable high availability, increase performance and simplify the
management of Oracle9i Real Application Clusters.
Automation
VERITAS SANPoint Control and VERITAS OpForce automate provisioning of
servers
and storage for Oracle environments. VERITAS SANPoint Control storage resource
management software automatically detects and manages storage connected to
Oracle servers, simplifying allocation of storage for the database. VERITAS
OpForce automatically discovers and deploys servers in the application tier,
making it easy for customers to provision servers in Oracle grids.
"For many years Oracle's largest customers have trusted VERITAS to improve
the
performance and availability of their mission-critical applications and data,"
said Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer for VERITAS Software. "VERITAS
works with what Oracle customers have today, and gives them peace of mind as
they re-think their storage, server and operating system choices and make the
move to utility computing."
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