Hitachi to collaborate with VERITAS Software on integration testing, supports development of new SAN virtualization technologies.
04 November 1999 — Hitachi Data Systems today announced that it has expanded its relationship with VERITAS® Software Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTS) by supporting two VERITAS Software storage area network (SAN) initiatives, including its new SAN Integration LAB (iLAB) and VERITAS V3 SAN virtualization technologies. The joint collaboration will help to ensure that customers receive fully tested, best-in-class SAN solutions from both companies.
With technologies changing constantly in the emerging SAN environment, customers need effective ways to reduce the risks of SAN implementations. VERITAS Software's new iLAB tests various platforms and configurations, allowing customers to deploy now, and realize up front the benefits of SAN solutions in heterogeneous configurations. Hitachi will work closely with systems-integration testing of VERITAS Software solutions using Hitachi Freedom SAN™ offerings in VERITAS Software's iLAB.
"Our strengthened alliance with VERITAS Software is complementary to our SAN offerings and ensures that we can deliver on what our customers require for their evolving SAN environments," said Richard Search, Vice President, Hitachi Data Systems Storage Marketing. "By offering industry-leading, open SAN solutions, which include selected alliance partners such as VERITAS Software, customers will receive pre-tested solutions for solving business issues while protecting their SAN investments."
In line with Hitachi's strategy to reduce the total cost of SAN ownership, VERITAS Software's V3 virtualization initiative focuses on reducing the cost and complexity involved with administrating SAN resources. VERITAS Software's V3 technologies provide a common application program interface (API) for communicating with Fibre Channel networking products and storage devices, discovering SAN devices and services, and managing physical storage through logical abstraction.
"Hitachi Data Systems' commitment to multivendor, non-proprietary SAN solutions puts them in a leadership position to provide complete flexibility to customers for creating the SAN environment that meets their specific business needs," said Steve Colman, Vice President of worldwide OEM operations, VERITAS Software. "Our latest SAN initiatives fit well with Hitachi Freedom SAN solutions and will ultimately allow our customers to fully maximize the latest SAN technologies and reduce the overall cost of ownership."
Hitachi resells VERITAS Software's flagship storage management software, VERITAS Foundation Suite™, with its Hitachi Freedom Storage™ 5700, 5800, and 7700E solutions. The suite consists of VERITAS Volume Manager™ and VERITAS File System™, which optimize performance, provide higher levels of data availability, and reduce administrative costs. VERITAS Volume Manager is an on-line disk and storage management tool for enterprise computing environments. VERITAS File System is a mainframe-class, journaling file system that facilitates high performance, quick recovery, and easy scalability.
Hitachi's Freedom SAN solutions are based on Hitachi's Freedom Data Networks™ architecture, which allows data-access and data-sharing capabilities to be deployed across the enterprise. Hitachi's professional services organization provides a wide range of services to design and implement these complex SAN environments, allowing Hitachi to deliver a total SAN solution tailored to each customer's specific needs. Hitachi's own Interoperability Lab (I-Lab) tests all Freedom SAN components to ensure interoperability — providing a quick way to tailor designs for meeting customer requirements in many business environments.
For enterprise customers who demand the continuous availability of business-critical information, VERITAS Software, the industry's leading enterprise-class application storage management software provider, ensures information availability from business-critical applications by delivering integrated, cross-platform storage management software solutions. The company's products enable Business Without Interruption™ and are designed to protect, access, and manage business-critical application information. VERITAS Software products are delivered through a global end-user sales force and a worldwide network of enterprise value-added resellers, resellers, and OEM partners. The company's corporate headquarters is located at 1600 Plymouth Street, Mountain View, California 94043. Telephone: (650) 335-8000. Fax: (650) 335-8050. E-mail: vx-sales@veritas.com.
Recognized as a leading provider of business solutions for the world's most IT-intensive corporations, Hitachi Data Systems offers professional services globally, multiplatform storage subsystems, and the industry's broadest line of high-performance servers. The company's extensive range of products and services, coupled with its business alliances with key industry leaders, enable it to transform IT into business agility for high-end and middle-market customers. Hitachi Data Systems is owned by Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. Freedom SAN, Hitachi Freedom Storage, and Freedom Data Networks are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. The VERITAS logo, Business Without Interruption, VERITAS Foundation Suite, VERITAS File System, VERITAS Volume Manager and ,VERITAS V3 and Business Without Interruption are trademarks of VERITAS Software Corporation.
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