Symantec, Oracle Renew Technology Agreement Governing Joint Engineering Efforts

Symantec, Oracle Renew Technology Agreement Governing Joint Engineering Efforts

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has signed a new interoperability agreement with Oracle providing for qualification of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC synchronously with the release of new Oracle RAC offerings. The agreement governs the companies’ joint engineering efforts around Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC on IBM AIX, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris.

Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC is a proven solution that delivers and manages highly available Oracle RAC databases. With this new agreement, Symantec is the only software platform partner included in the Oracle RAC Program. Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC certifications will be part of Oracle’s release process and will be immediately supported with each new release of Oracle RAC. Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC includes market leading Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Storage Foundation technology, allowing customers to standardize on common infrastructure across the data center, reducing cost and complexity within the enterprise data center.

“Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC provides the industry’s only heterogeneous cluster file system supporting Oracle RAC, which enables our joint customers to increase storage utilization and operational efficiency, rapidly move information based on changing business needs, and protect critical data and applications,” said Rob Soderbery, senior vice president of Symantec’s Storage Foundation Group. “Today, this extended agreement reaffirms Symantec’s ongoing commitment to help organizations using Oracle RAC maintain the highest degree of performance and uptime through its storage management and high-availability technologies.”

Symantec and Oracle continue with certification of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC on various UNIX platforms, and recently the Symantec solution was certified on multiple platforms with Oracle 10gR2. The technology agreement announced today covers both Oracle 10g and Oracle RAC 11g. Symantec will deploy engineers and systems at Oracle to complete testing and certification as part of Oracle’s release cycle.

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