Red Hat partners Symantec for cloud DR services

MUMBAI, INDIA: Symantec Corp. and Red Hat Inc. announced an extended collaboration to deliver solutions to deploy private and hybrid clouds.

The company will work together in areas such as engineering, marketing, support, and sales groups. The new solutions will be built around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Symantec storage and availability solutions.

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the fastest-growing platform for our storage management and high availability software as an increasing number of customers deploy Linux to increase agility and stay competitive,” said Francis deSouza, group president, Enterprise Products and Services, Symantec. “We’re strengthening our partnership with Red Hat to ensure companies are confident that their information is protected as they modernize their data centers and build resilient private clouds.”

Cluster Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides off-premise disaster recovery for organizations operating over long distances, automating global failover of multi-tiered applications to any disaster recovery (DR) site.

Cluster Server manages data replication layer and provides a single-click DR experience, enabling customers to simplify their DR workflow.

The solution provides non-disruptive failover testing to ensure that recovery is configured to work properly when it is needed — whether the downtime is from power loss, natural disasters or other causes, claims the company in a release.

“Working closely together, Red Hat and Symantec offer joint customers tremendous value with an open source, secure pathway to modernize their legacy IT architectures,” said Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technology, Red Hat. “We’re pleased to expand our long-term collaboration with Symantec to bring our leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform and Symantec’s compelling technologies together to enable our joint customers with further choice and flexibility for their IT infrastructures.”