Fujitsu Siemens Computers chooses VERITAS Software to enhance its enterprise-class solaris-based servers

VERITAS Software has announced that Fujitsu Siemens Computers has selected its product to enhance its enterprise-class range of Solaris/SPARC64-based GP7000Fservers. Fujitsu Siemens Computers will package and price-list VERITAS File System, VERITAS Foundation Suite and VERITAS Volume Manager with its platform, positioning itself to provide more scalable and reliable enterprise servers to its broad customer base.

"This is an outstanding opportunity for VERITAS Software from both a customer-benefit and strategic point of view. It provides us with an opportunity to capitalise on the extensive customer base Fujitsu Siemens Computers holds throughout South Africa," says Nick van Noordwyk regional manager, Middle East and Africa at VERITAS Software. "VERITAS Software will be able to leverage the strong field sales organisations of both companies to provide customers complete product and support offerings through Fujitsu Siemens Computers` line of trusted hardware; we look forward to this introducing numerous opportunities to work together in the near future."

"Our new Solaris/SPARC64 based GP7000F servers meet the requirement of server applications, such as data centre, e-commerce and large enterprise applications, such as Online Transaction Processing, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management and Data Mining. At CeBIT, we introduced the new GP7000F 32- and 64 way servers and later this year, we will announce a 128-way server model," says Dr. Joseph Reger, vice president strategic marketing at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "Mainframe class high availability is a key distinctive feature of GP7000F servers and with VERITAS Software, we enhance this functionality to protect, access and manage business-critical application information."

This agreement with Fujitsu Siemens Computers expands upon an existing long-standing relationship VERITAS Software has held separately with both Germany`s Siemens AG and Fujitsu of Japan. For several years, Siemens has been bundling VERITAS File System with selected hardware; this extension will add new products to its offering and compatible, scalable support for its recently adopted Solaris operating system architecture.