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Symantec updates flagship storage, high availability suites

In order to provide greater private cloud capabilities, Symantec announced new product versions of Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 and Veritas Operations Manager 4.1 and eight other products.
Symantec boosts enterprise SaaS storage line

At its users conference this week, Symantec released a slew of upgrades to its midrange backup, enterprise archive and data management products and said it will begin offering a SaaS model.
Symantec Storage Foundation update to manage private clouds

Symantec plans to release a major upgrade to its flagship storage management application, Storage Foundation 6.0, which will allow users to manage a cloud infrastructure from end to end.
Symantec launches new versions of Storage Foundation and Operations Manager

Symantec today announced the latest version of its storage management software, Veritas Operations Manager 3.1 and Storage Foundation High Availability 5.1, which allow admins to automatically allocate tiers of storage for applications based on the importance of data.
Microsoft Hyper-V add-on speeds up virtual data centres

Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualised data centres.
Symantec brings products to Amazon cloud

Symantec and Amazon have teamed up on cloud-based storage management
Symantec updates virtual management suite

Symantec announced several enhancements to its storage management suite of software, its cluster file and cluster server system, that include the ability to recognise solid state drives used in tiered storage as well as full integration with Hyper-V.
3Par offers thinner storage options

Thin specialist 3Par has launched a range of new storage products
Symantec unveils FileStore cloud storage tool

Symantec has released software that allows companies to create a file-based cloud storage infrastructures capable of serving up petabytes of data from a single domain name space, and from commodity x86 hardware.
Symantec kills GoEverywhere

Symantec's GoEverywhere online data-sharing service is going nowhere. The company is to terminate the product, which it has been beta testing since January.

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McAfee vs Symantec: Security battle

For decades, Symantec and McAfee have fostered a tit-for-tat rivalry that makes the old Hatfields and McCoys feud look tame by comparison.
Backup strategy - virtualisation changes everything

Enterprises have had long-standing approaches to backup, using methodologies that have been well-honed through constant use. But there's a new game in town; the arrival of virtualisation as a resource within organisations has meant that system administrators have had to change their thinking to accommodate the new technology.
More interesting Storage Expo suppliers

More notes on supplier presence at Storage Expo in alphabetical order: Data Domain; FalconStor; Infortrend; Left Hand Networks; and Onaro.
XenSource's Simon Crosby speaks out

Crosby delivers trenchant views on the future of the virtualisation industry -- and launches a serious critique of VMware and even of business partner Microsoft.
On the other hand ...

By using server+DAS building blocks Left Hand Networks builds powerful, affordable and nicely protectable IP SANs
Virtualisation drives storage management advances

Server virtualisation is helping to drive storage virtualisation. Management for the two types of virtualised environments may converge.
In VNO veritas

Many companies are finding that a virtual network operator can provide better service and greater customisation than can a network owner.
Double-Take makes profit and goes for IPO

Having made a profit in a nine-month period, Double-Take is making its bid for IPO stardom. But the CEO may be temporary.
A slight adjustment to Njini's knitting

Njini has jumped aboard the File Area Network bandwagon to carve out a claimed competition-free zone for its IAM product.
Eating the tape children

Tape could be facing extinction because of the vast rewards possible in terms of disk storage efficiency with de-duplication software.

How-tos

Case Study: CitiStreet ends tape reliance, cuts backup by 20-plus hours

Case Study: Unified storage sorts out a Surrey hospital file problem

Case Study: A city in Kansas does tapeless backup

Case Study: UK Bank gets SAN eye-opener

Case Study: D2D backup for Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets

Case Study: AlphaServer users face hardware decisions

Case Study: Backup management muddle cleared up

Case Study: Server consolidation - strictly for the birds?

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Featured White Papers

Symantec Veritas NetBackup design best practices with Data Domain

Focusing on how the Data Domain deduplication storage solution integrates with standard NBU architectural and operational environments in order to overcome the growing gap between what is actually being accomplished and what needs to be accomplished.
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SAN Performance Monitoring

This paper describes how Finisar's NetWisdom product adds enormous value to popular SRM systems (from EMC, HDS, IBM, HP, Veritas, CA, etc.) by adding key performance monitoring data and statistics. Knowledge and awareness of these statistics enable SAN Managers to better understand their complex SAN environments in order to maintain the health and uptime of their network.
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Symantec Breaks the Mould

Symantec has joined the ranks of DPM vendors such as Aptrare, Bocada, ServerGraph, Tek-Tools and WysDM by offering its own heterogeneous backup reporting tool.
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Veritas? Configuration Manager by Symantec

This paper will cover the challenge of identifying a reliable source of information to populate and maintain accurate configuration information from the distributed application and server environment for use in the CMDB.
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VERITAS High Availability Solution Suite for SAP R/3

This paper describes the overall SAP availability environment and the VERITAS solution suite. It then offers a technical overview of both local and global availability in the SAP environment, and steps through a number of scenarios using the VERITAS solution suite.
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