VERITAS Software
VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in
the world, is a leading provider of software to enable utility computing. In a
utility computing model, IT resources are aligned with business needs and
business applications are delivered with optimal performance and availability on
top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing hardware and labor costs.
With 2003 revenues of $1.75 billion, VERITAS delivers products and services for
data protection, storage and server management, high availability and
application performance management that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune
500. More information about VERITAS Software can be found at www.VERITAS.com.
- July 2005 - VERITAS' merger with
Symantec is now
complete.
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Disk to
Disk Backup versus Tape - War or Truce? - article by Engenio
Will
disk to disk backup make tape backup obsolete? That's a question that's been
debated hotly here on STORAGEsearch for many years.
At the extreme
polarized ends of the argument are tape media makers like Sony, who in
an article here made a
case for the long term survival of tape, and at the other end of the argument
are disk to disk supporters like STORAGEsearch whose
editorial view has been
that tape doesn't have a viable role the midsize market any more. In the
middle of this argument are the moderates who say that maybe tape and D2d can
co-exist. This article by Steve Gardner at Engenio takes the middle course line
- and says why he thinks there's still a place for both. See if you agree. ...read the article,
...Engenio profile,
RAID systems,
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