Hitachi Data Systems Licensed to Offer VERITAS SANPoint Control; Software Provides Single Point of Control, Greatly Simplifying Management of Complex Heterogeneous Networks
SANTA CLARA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, 17 October, 2000 — Highlighting their commitment to support the implementation of multivendor Storage Area Networks (SANs), Hitachi Data Systems and VERITAS Software Corporation, (Nasdaq:VRTS), The Data Availability Company, today announced they will cooperatively develop their storage-management products to deliver integrated and open solutions to market. These solutions will meet enterprise customers' demand for centralized management capabilities that leverage both hardware and software interoperability.
As part of their cooperative effort, Hitachi Data Systems has been licensed to offer VERITAS SANPoint™ Control™ software for use in the SAN solutions it offers to customers. Beginning in the fourth quarter of this year, a trial copy of the software will be included with every Hitachi Freedom Storage™ system delivered to customers by Hitachi Data Systems or its indirect sales partners. VERITAS and Hitachi Data Systems will collaborate on a joint sales model, further details to be released at a later time. The companies will jointly develop sales tools and programs to support these efforts.
The commitment to multivendor "open" SANs is intended to provide customers the freedom to implement their networks with whatever combination of components is best suited to their business needs. While other storage providers still rely on proprietary software for SAN management, Hitachi Data Systems and VERITAS Software have become the first to join hands to tightly link the design of hardware and software elements for non-proprietary SANs.
VERITAS SANPoint Control simplifies and centralizes the management of multivendor SANs, and includes the ability to centrally discover, visualize and zone leading hardware vendors' SAN components. VERITAS SANPoint Control enables control of all SAN resources, including servers, storage devices, switches, and host bus adapters. VERITAS SANPoint Control allows storage administrators to use a single management product for the majority of day-to-day SAN operations, reducing the need to monitor a variety of device management applications spread across multiple display screens in the data center.
"We're eager to be working with Hitachi Data Systems to significantly improve the availability and functionality of an enterprise's data and applications," said Robin Purohit, senior director of product management for SAN, Clustering and Replication, VERITAS Software. "VERITAS SANPoint Control enables customers to achieve the benefits of centralized heterogeneous storage operations and improve manageability over traditional `point-to-point' storage architectures."
VERITAS SANPoint Control software has been integrated with all Freedom Storage Lightning 9900, 7700E and 5800 models and will be integrated with all future models of the Hitachi Freedom Storage family of products. Upon discovery of Hitachi Data Systems 5800, 7700E and 9900 storage arrays, VERITAS SANPoint Control will automatically create the array enclosures with their associated LUNs and display the array's physical interconnect into the SAN. Both Hitachi Data Systems and VERITAS Software are collaborating on future integration, offering streamlined solutions that will eventually allow more advanced management of HDS arrays from VERITAS SANPoint Control. VERITAS SANPoint Control, introduced in June and now shipping, initially operates on the Sun™ Solaris™ operating system, with plans for other UNIX®-based operating systems, as well as Windows 2000.
"In order for customers to receive the full promise of SAN technology, they need a view of data that will shield them from the physical interconnects and definitions that are so time consuming to manage today," said Hu Yoshida, Hitachi Data Systems vice president of Data Network Solutions. "VERITAS and Hitachi Data Systems share a commitment to deliver this capability in open SAN solutions. With our joint development projects, we aim to give customers the confidence they need to make an investment in SAN technology that will result in substantial returns for their business operations."
VERITAS SANPoint Control is a SAN management product that provides centralized monitoring and control of all SAN resources, including logical volumes, Fibre Channel adapters and switches, and peripheral devices. This new application is the first VERITAS Software product to integrate the VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer™ technology, a new host-based service that provides SAN discovery services using both industry standard interfaces, such as SNMP and Fibre Channel services and vendor-specific extensions.
VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS) provides essential data availability software solutions that enable customers to protect and access their business-critical data for Business Without Interruption™. The Company's corporate headquarters is located at 1600 Plymouth Street, Mountain View, CA 94043. Telephone: (650) 335-8000. Fax: (650) 335-8050. Email: vx-sales@veritas.com web site: www.veritas.com
Committed to helping customers exploit the value of information technology for success in the Internet economy, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), is a leading provider of business solutions for the world's most information-intensive corporations. For further information on Hitachi Data Systems, access www.hds.com.
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1999 (ended March 31, 2000) consolidated sales of 8,001 billion yen ($75.5 billion). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at http://www.hitachi.co.jp.
1 At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar.
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