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Veritas unveils updated data recovery products

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PALO ALTO, Calif.: Veritas Software Corp. on Monday announced new and updated

storage software products that enable companies to back up and recover data that

is lost due to disasters, data corruption or other means.

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The company's new FlashSnap software enables users to make up to 32

point-in-time copies - or "snapshots" - of data so that if it is lost

due to a disaster or programming error, snapshots can be used to recreate that

valuable information.

Veritas executives said the software can be used with any kind of storage

hardware and that it is an extension of existing snapshot technology, which is

also referred to as "mirroring."

The Mountain View, California-based company also announced Veritas Volume

Replicator 3.2, an update of its product that enables users to immediately post

data to more than one location so that if a data center or key office is

destroyed, the user can quickly recover information with little or no

interruption to its business operations.

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"More and more companies are looking at mirroring and replication

because of what happened" at the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept.

11, John Maxwell, Veritas' vice president of product marketing, told Reuters.

It is vital for a company to use those technologies if they want to recover

lost data in minutes rather than days, Maxwell said.

"It's really come to the forefront of people's minds ... There were

sites in the World Trade Center that just vanished," said Bill North, an

analyst with industry research firm IDC. North noted that Morgan Stanley - the

Wall Street investment firm that had been the World Trade Center's largest

tenant - was up and running the following morning because it was using disaster

recovery technology.

"At the very least it will really minimize the possibility for data

corruption or data loss," North said.

(C) Reuters Limited 2001.

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