Symantec Transforms Data Center Automation with New Capabilities in Veritas Server Foundation

Symantec Transforms Data Center Automation with New Capabilities in Veritas Server Foundation

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced major new capabilities within its Veritas Server Foundation product family to transform the emerging field of Data Center Automation (DCA). The release of Veritas Application Director brings to Veritas Server Foundation the industry’s only solution to enable IT to control when and where multi-tiered applications run across heterogeneous physical and virtual environments to maximize server utilization and application availability. Symantec also announced Veritas Patch Manager, which adds patch management and patch distribution functionality to the existing operating system and application provisioning capabilities of Veritas Server Foundation.

Symantec Vision for Comprehensive Data Center Automation: To manage the growing complexity of their data centers, enterprises require more than the automation of existing server administration tasks that traditional DCA products provide. Many enterprises have adopted large-scale shared architectures running complex multi-tier applications across a broad, distributed collection of physical and virtual servers, accessing terabytes of shared storage. If enterprises are to keep up with the relentless growth in demand for data center services while keeping costs under control, they need a comprehensive and automated way to control applications, virtual machines, servers, and storage. Symantec is the only provider of an integrated infrastructure software solution that delivers industry-leading capabilities in backup, storage management, server management, and application performance management across a heterogeneous data center, and as a result, is uniquely positioned to deliver the kind of comprehensive DCA solution that enterprises require.

“At British Telecom, we aim to provide our customers with true on-demand IT services and our applications and information must be highly available,” said Ray Griffith, British Telecom. “As IT complexity continues to increase at an alarming rate, a flexible datacenter infrastructure that allows us to effectively prioritize customer needs is necessary for delivering on our application service level agreements. Symantec’s Server Foundation, featuring the centralized, policy-based management capabilities of Veritas Application Director (VAD) will help large global organizations like BT maximize the availability of critical applications and more effectively respond to the needs of our business.”

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