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Symantec Announces Version 6.0 of Storage Management and High Availability Products

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Symantec Corp. has announced the release of version 6.0 of its storage management and high availability products, enabling IT organizations to build resilient private clouds by transforming their existing infrastructure. This version spans multiple products in Symantec's portfolio, including Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, Veritas Cluster Server 6.0, and Veritas Operations Manager 4.1. With these products, IT organizations can manage entire business services end-to-end with built-in resiliency, even if the business service is run across multiple virtualization technologies, operating systems, and storage platforms.

Key Takeaways:

  • The new version of Symantec's storage management and high availability products, including Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, Veritas Cluster Server 6.0, and Veritas Operations Manager 4.1, enables IT organizations to build resilient private clouds by transforming their existing infrastructure.
  • These products provide built-in resiliency, allowing IT organizations to manage entire business services end-to-end, even if the business service is run across multiple virtualization technologies, operating systems, and storage platforms.
  • Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 and Symantec ApplicationHA 6.0 offer a new Virtual Business Services (VBS) capability, designed to provide continuous high availability and reduce the duration of service disruptions for entire multi-tier business applications.
  • Administrators can expect to orchestrate the start, stop, non-disruptive testing, and failover of entire multi-tier applications with a single click.
  • Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 allows storage managers to choose the right hardware solution for their storage needs and complements the advanced functions in the storage arrays.
  • The product suite includes Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing, Veritas Cluster File System, and Symantec VirtualStore, with support for all major storage arrays and operating system platforms.
  • Veritas Operations Manager 4.1 provides a single management console across physical and virtual servers that helps customers visualize, analyze, and control business service availability and heterogeneous storage environments across data centers.
  • IT organizations can provision storage using policy-based templates and implement chargeback based on real application storage utilization with Veritas Operations Manager Advanced.

Statistics:

  • 67 percent of IT and C-level professionals are less confident about placing mission-critical applications on a private/hybrid cloud due to business requirements for high availability SLAs (Symantec's Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey).
  • 82 percent of respondents selected improved availability as an important goal for deciding to implement private storage-as-a-service (Symantec's Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey).
  • The new version of Symantec's storage management and high availability products supports deduplication and compression at the file system layer.
  • Storage Foundation 6.0 is designed with the most comprehensive storage optimization capabilities to block-based SAN storage environments.

Sources:

  • Symantec Corporation
  • Symantec News Room: http://www.symantec.com/news
  • Symantec's Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey
  • Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries.

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