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Tools for data center automation

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Features: IT security solutions firm Symantec Corp. has announced major new capabilities within its Veritas Server Foundation product family to transform the emerging field of Data Center Automation (DCA).

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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 in a statement the Veritas Patch Manager, which adds patch management and patch distribution functionality to the existing operating system and application provisioning capabilities of Veritas Server Foundation.

"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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Application Director also provides a more granular level of visibility and control for virtualized environments by monitoring the applications within the virtual server, the virtual server itself and the underlying hardware, as well as enabling the user to start, stop, and migrate the applications and the virtual servers across hosts.

Application Director currently supports Solaris Zones from Sun, VMware ESX server from EMC, and AIX Micro-partitions from IBM. Symantec plans to aggressively extend this coverage to support all major virtual machine platforms across all major operating systems.

"As data center management becomes more complex, IT managers struggle to find the right tools to automate business system administration," said Donna Scott, vice president and distinguished analyst of Gartner, Inc. "Enterprises need a consolidated approach that provides both visibility into their health and control for start, stop and failover."

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Veritas Patch Manager Simplifies System Updates Further enhancing its Server Foundation suite, Symantec has also released Patch Manager, which provides a centralized approach to patch servers and applications across operating systems. It automatically performs scanning and assessment, examining the current patch footprint in each application or OS and comparing it to available patches using policy-based rules to automatically manage updates.

Veritas Server Foundation from Symantec is available today.

Price: Licensing fees start at $300 per CPU for each managed server.

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