NEW YORK, USA: Symantec Corp. announced enhancements to Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server, the heterogeneous storage management and high availability solutions for UNIX, Linux and Windows environments.

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This release enables organizations to capitalize on new storage technology, such as solid state drives (SSDs) and thin provisioning, while continuing to reduce costs and complexity through improved performance and scalability.

Moreover, near instantaneous recovery of applications is now possible with Veritas Cluster File System through tight integration with Oracle, Sybase and IBM DB2 -- allowing for fast failover of structured information and near linear scalability.

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Josh Kahn, vice president of Product Management, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec, said: "As organizations evolve to meet changing business needs, they require an optimized storage infrastructure that is dynamic and flexible. With this launch, Symantec is providing customers with the ability to effectively utilize the latest storage innovations -- from SSDs to thin provisioned hardware and even virtual environments including Hyper-V -- while also providing capabilities needed to optimize any storage or server platform."

Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server are now generally available and Veritas Storage Foundation starts at $695 per server.