Unisys and Veritas Software partner to deliver complete backup and recovery solutions

Unisys Corporation and VERITAS Software Corporation have announced a technology and marketing partnership to provide tuned application-centric SAN backup solutions to customers working in departmental, datacenter and enterprise environments.

As part of the agreement, Unisys will include VERITAS NetBackup in its LAN Free backup solutions, addressing customers` requirements for backup and restore, business replication and/or resource sharing. The SAN backup solutions are available on the Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Servers. Unisys will also resell VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows NT and VERITAS NetBackup for Windows NT.

"Unisys has selected VERITAS Software to provide the software component of its LAN Free SAN solution to deliver the optimum solution based on our customers` requirements," says Jeffrey Bell, vice president and general manager, Unisys Storage Program Office. "By having this ability to select the components from a wide array of best-of-breed partner technologies, Unisys is able to deliver complete, leading-edge SAN solutions that address the needs in today`s environments."

"Unisys Africa has taken the relationship with VERITAS a step further by establishing a technology centre at their offices in Sunninghill, Johannesburg to showcase and run Proof of Concept business solutions incorporating VERITAS Backup prior to deployment or integration at customer sites. This data centre-type laboratory environment gives the African market the opportunity to thoroughly test solutions as well as the close working relationship between Unisys and VERITAS for themselves," says Ted Wood, business initiative manager at Unisys Africa.

"VERITAS NetBackup`s integrated SAN capabilities and support position it as an attractive software component for complete SAN solutions," says Nick van Noordwyk, regional director, Middle East and Africa, at VERITAS Software. "This partnership between Unisys and VERITAS Software to deliver LAN Free backup SAN solutions on Unisys` line of servers reinforces our position of providing the best technologies available to our customers at all levels working within the NT and SAN markets."

Mainframe-class Performance with the Economics of Industry-standard Computing The Unisys e-@action Enterprise Server ES7000 combines the cost advantages of Microsoft and Intel technology with the scalability, performance and resilience once available only on large UNIX-based servers and proprietary mainframes. Designed for the power of future Intel IA-64 Itanium processors, the ES7000 is based on Unisys revolutionary Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture. The ES7000 accommodates up to 32 Intel Pentium III Xeon processors, which can be field-upgraded to IA-64 Itanium processors when that technology becomes available or combined with Itanium processors in the same server. The ES7000 provides an array of computing capabilities required for enterprise-class e-business computing and well known to users of large-scale computers, but unprecedented in computing environments based on Microsoft and Intel technology.

The partitioning capability of the ES7000 enables administrators to create "servers within a server," executing multiple functions in heterogeneous operating environments within the same system. It features the flexibility to redefine and reallocate server resources - memory, processors and input/output (I/O) channels - to meet changing requirements, without interruptions to processing. These advantages enable the ES7000 to match the performance of UNIX systems in enterprise-class e-business and other critical applications at a fraction of the price.