Symantec Delivers Data Center Availability with Broad Support for Leading Data Replication Solutions

Symantec Delivers Data Center Availability with Broad Support for Leading Data Replication Solutions

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), today extended the capabilities of VERITAS Cluster Server â„¢, the industry’s leading independent heterogeneous clustering and availability software, to include full support for leading replication solutions that include: EMC® SRDF® (including SRDF/A), EMC MirrorViewâ„¢, Hitachi TrueCopyâ„¢, HP Continuous Access XP, the IBM High-Availability Disaster Recovery capability of DB2 Universal Database® and the IBM Peer to Peer Remote Copy capability of IBM Enterprise Storage Server, NetApp® SnapMirror®, Oracle® DataGuard and the company’s own VERITAS Volume Replicatorâ„¢ product. By combining VERITAS Cluster Server, now from Symantec, with data replication, enterprise customers can achieve and maintain data center availability and remain confident that their applications and data will be available between data centers, across any distance and during any outage scenario.

“Enterprise IT organizations are facing intense pressure to ensure their mission-critical applications and data are constantly available,” said Kris Hagerman, senior vice president, Storage and Server Management Group, Symantec Corporation. “With significant new support for a wide variety of replication technologies, we are providing customers with a single solution that integrates clustering with replication. This enables customers to attain the highest levels of availability, and ensure they can quickly recover from any disruption regardless of the storage platform or operating system they choose.”

Today many organizations replicate data to a secondary location to protect data from disasters or other threats. However, replication alone does not always provide easy access and recovery of data. Organizations that want to achieve the highest level of availability for their critical data, systems and applications add clustering software to their replication solution, allowing them to quickly recover from disruptions when they occur. Clustering automates the process of bringing up storage, servers and applications and re-directs clients to a secondary data set in the event of disruption or disaster eliminating prolonged and costly downtime. Symantec is uniquely positioned to help customers attain this level of availability by utilizing a single product so they can go beyond traditional disaster recovery to proactively mitigate and minimize the risk of downtime by protecting both their data and applications within and across data centers worldwide.

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