Veritas buys US virtualisation co.

MUMBAI: Veritas Software Corporation has announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Ejasent Inc., a Mountain View, California-based supplier of application virtualization technology for utility computing, in an all cash transaction valued at $59 million. Veritas expects the acquisition to be completed by the end of January 2004.

According to the company release, Ejasent's application virtualization technology provides Veritas with another key building block to enable utility computing. The company's core software, UpScale, offers the ability to move an application from one server to another without disrupting or terminating the application. Ejasent's other core product, MicroMeasure, enables usage-based metering and billing of physical and logical data center assets, including servers, storage and application transactions by specific users and departments.

Upon the completion of the acquisition, Ejasent will become part of Veritas' High Availability/Clustering group.

Veritas also plans to integrate MicroMeasure software into the Veritas CommandCentral Service product, further enhancing service level reporting across the enterprise.

The release further states that Veritas expects to deliver UpScale and MicroMeasure software in the second quarter of 2004. UpScale will be available initially on Solaris, with a Linux version set for release in early 2005. MicroMeasure runs on Solaris, Windows, Linux and HP-UX.

"The Ejasent team is pleased to be joining with Veritas to accelerate the delivery of advanced utility computing technologies," said Ejasent, Inc. co-founder and CTO Rajeev Bharadhwaj. "Ejasent's application virtualization technology is highly complementary to Veritas' products, and it will become an important building block as Veritas enables utility computing," he added.

"Simplifying the management of IT infrastructure that is 'always on' for end-users is a fundamental objective of utility computing. Ejasent's technology adds another key building block to the Veritas portfolio," said Veritas Software executive VP of product operations Mark Bregman.

(CyberMedia News Service)