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HYDERABAD: Symantec Corp. today announced the general availability of its Storage Foundation 5.0 family of products, providing public and private sector organizations with new visibility and control over complex data center storage environments.
In addition to this new storage management offering, Symantec is releasing for general availability Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, a key component of the Veritas Server Foundation family.
Customers who leverage the Symantec Data Center Foundation can realize powerful operational benefits such as the ability to train their staff on one set of tools instead of dozens of disparate vendor-specific tools; enhanced negotiating leverage and flexibility in choosing among any major storage and server vendor; and improved utilization of server and storage hardware assets.
Further, customers can achieve significant direct cost savings. By standardizing on solutions like Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 and Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, enterprises can avoid purchasing duplicative server and storage software from multiple vendors, and realize significant storage hardware savings by moving data from high-cost tier one storage to lower cost tier two storage.
Storage Foundation 5.0 provides data center-wide visibility into the entire storage environment across all major application, server, operating system and storage platforms. Additionally, Storage Foundation 5.0 provides powerful centralized control over storage administration, enabling hundreds of systems to be managed from a single console and automating routine tasks to eliminate human error and time-consuming manual processes.
In addition, with this release, Symantec provides users with the first synchronous release across all major UNIX and Linux platforms.
"IT organizations face the difficult challenges of managing exploding data volumes, delivering high service levels, and mitigating business risks while at the same time keeping costs under control all within a data center environment where complexity has grown out of control," said Rob Soderbery, senior vice president of Symantec's Storage Foundation Group.
"With Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, enterprises for the first time have centralized visibility and control across their multi-platform server, storage, and application environments. This release is a game-changer in helping our customers manage and optimize their datacenters."
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