VERITAS Software Corporation has announced the availability of VERITAS SANPoint Control Version 1.0, a tool designed to simplify and centralise the management of multi-vendor storage area networks (SANs). With the collaboration of leading host bus adapter vendors and switch and storage systems vendors, VERITAS Software has delivered to market VERITAS SANPoint Control Version 1.0 to solve the early needs of its customers deploying heterogeneous SANs.
VERITAS Software has worked closely with its partners to ensure closely co-ordinated availability of advanced hardware and software elements from each of the SAN device vendors, as well as unique distribution arrangements to further broaden the delivery of VERITAS SANPoint Control to SAN customers.
"VERITAS Software`s commitment to collaborate with leading systems, device and storage vendors helps establish standards and promote interoperability within mixed SAN environments," says Dennis Martin, analyst and partner, The Evaluator Group. "Delivering out-of-the-box compatibility, support and integration, VERITAS Software efficiently addresses the market`s complex enterprise requirements."
"VERITAS Software believes this level of partnership and engineering support is critical in order to deliver a management product with the widest breadth of capabilities to customers with heterogeneous enterprise SANs," says Nick van Noordwyk, regional director, Middle East and Africa at VERITAS Software. "Through testing and joint development initiatives, the company is building solutions that deliver centralised management functionality that helps ensure the availability of business-critical data."
The VERITAS V3 SAN Initiative, VERITAS SANPoint Control and its associated components, have received endorsements by a number of major industry partners. In addition, the initiative is based on, and will evolve with, emerging storage networking standards. VERITAS Software is an active participant in a number of standards groups, including the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Fibre Alliance, the Jiro platform expert group and the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA).
Brocade
VERITAS SANPoint Control provides advanced zoning capabilities with Brocade switches including an extension to manage the advanced services in Brocade Fabric OS and future releases of Silkworm switches. Brocade has timed the availability of its 2.2 OS closely with version 1.0 of VERITAS SANPoint Control. In addition, the Company has signed an agreement to bundle a 60-day evaluation copy of VERITAS SANPoint Control with every Brocade switch.
Emulex
VERITAS Software and Emulex work together to ensure that advanced fibre channel features used in VERITAS SANPoint Control are transparently implemented into Emulex`s host adapters resulting in advanced discovery and management capabilities. Emulex`s new drivers provide support for VERITAS SANPoint Control in Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 environments.
Hitachi Data Systems
VERITAS and Hitachi Data Systems have partnered to engineer technology for advanced SAN management application in Hitachi environments, to include support for the 5800, 7700 and 9900 arrays, in v1.0 and future versions of VERITAS SANPoint Control. Hitachi will also distribute a 60-day evaluation copy of VERITAS SANPoint Control.
JNI
JNI, offering a broad line of HBAs, ASICs and software for SANs, supports VERITAS SANPoint Control to develop enterprise-level products that diversely support various platforms.
McDATA
VERITAS SANPoint Control will integrate with McDATA`s Enterprise Fabric Connectivity (EFC) Manager to provide system administrators with a single interface to monitor the fabric-wide SAN topology, including servers and storage devices.
Qlogic
The Company will co-market and distribute VERITAS SANPoint Control and ship an evaluation copy with all QLogic Fibre Channel switches and host adapters. In addition, VERITAS Software and QLogic plan to collaborate for the next level of integration between VERITAS SANPoint Control and QLogic HBAs and switches.
Sun
Sun announced an agreement to integrate VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer(tm), now the foundation of Sun`s management offerings, with the Jiro Technology-based Sun StorEdge management console.
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VERITAS SANPoint Control
VERITAS SANPoint Control is a SAN management product that provides centralised monitoring and control of all SAN resources, including logical volumes, Fibre Channel adapters and switches and peripheral devices. This new application is the first VERITAS Software product to integrate the VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer technology, a new host-based service that provides SAN discovery services using both industry standard interfaces, such as SNMP and Fibre Channel services and vendor-specific extensions. VERITAS SANPoint Control supports switches, HBAs and storage systems from leading hardware vendors and provides extended support through array enclosure discovery for EMC and Hitachi Data Systems.
VERITAS V3 SAN Initiative
The VERITAS V3 SAN Initiative is an ongoing SAN virtualisation technology program that delivers critical new software technology to fully exploit the rapidly growing SAN infrastructure. This initiative enables VERTAS Software and its partners to evolve existing data availability products to take advantage of new SAN capabilities and create new types of SAN applications.
VERITAS V3 technologies, such as the V3 SAN Access Layer, will continue to be integrated into VERITAS Software products and licensed to strategic partners to provide customers with a wide range of SAN-virtualisation solutions. Virtualised SAN management dramatically reduces the cost and overhead involved in managing consistently growing amounts of data, expanding enterprises and developing technologies.
VERITAS SANPoint Products and Solutions
As the umbrella brand name for the company`s Storage Area Network (SAN) products and services, VERITAS SANPoint encompasses multiple products and rigorous solutions testing, as well as VERITAS SANPoint consulting services to accelerate customer SAN deployments. Utilizing breakthrough technology developed through programs such as the VERITAS V3 SAN Virtualization Initiative, today the VERITAS SANPoint product line delivers critical functionality such as comprehensive SAN management, concurrent access to data, and cost-effective SAN appliance software. By providing a broad range of solutions for managing SAN-based applications, resources and stored data, VERITAS SANPoint is uniquely able to simplify heterogeneous storage management and ensure data availability across enterprise environments.
VERITAS The Data Availability Company
VERITAS Software Corporation provides essential data availability software solutions that enable customers to protect and access their business-critical data for Business Without Interruption . The Company`s corporate headquarters is located at 1600 Plymouth Street, Mountain View, CA 94043. Telephone: (650) 335-8000. Fax: (650) 335-8050. Email: vx-sales@veritas.com. WWW site: http://www.veritas.com/.