Ncr Signs Licensing, Development & Sales Pact With Veritas

Online Product News, Dec, 1999

VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS), the industry's leading enterprise-class application storage management software provider, has signed a licensing, development and sales agreement with NCR Corporation, a recognized world leader in data warehouse solutions, to provide enterprise-class backup capabilities for customers using both MP-RAS (UNIX) and Windows NT.

VERITAS NetBackup(TM) will be offered by NCR as the first integrated backup solution under its new Open Teradata Backup program. The combination of VERITAS NetBackup's reliable performance and centralized administration and scalability with Teradata's powerful data warehousing will allow an expanding number of users to maximize their investment in Teradata by ensuring their critical data is always available.

"We are pleased to partner with an enterprise storage management leader such as VERITAS Software to add another exciting technology layer to the Teradata Warehouse solutions family," said Alan Chow, vice president of NCR's Data Warehouse Solutions Division. "By combining a high-performance, high-availability backup and recovery solution such as VERITAS NetBackup with NCR Teradata(R); our customers will be better served in achieving their low administrative overhead, centralized management and high data availability requirements."

"VERITAS Software offers the necessary backup and management solutions for the massive amount of data that data-warehouse users are facing every day," said Steve Colman, vice president of worldwide OEM sales, VERITAS Software. "VERITAS NetBackup will unquestionably allow users to efficiently and cost-effectively back up these large, mission-critical data warehouses, giving Teradata users the assurance that their information is secure."

This agreement fosters VERITAS Software's position as an industry-leading network backup solution provider and highlights its broadening presence in the Windows NT and data warehouse market. VERITAS NetBackup and other VERITAS Software application storage management products continue to be selected as preferred solutions by the industry's leading computer system, storage device, operating system and database application vendors, including NCR.

About VERITAS NetBackup

VERITAS NetBackup is the industry's leading enterprise data protection solution that provides centralized control from a single management interface. The multi-tier architecture of VERITAS NetBackup provides customers with a fast, reliable, data-center strength backup and recovery solution that can protect environments that span terabytes to petabytes in size.

Key features in VERITAS NetBackup include integrated Storage Area Network (SAN) support, dynamic tape drive sharing, snapshot backup, server free backup, disaster recovery support and intuitive Java and Windows NT administrative interfaces. In addition to protecting data in a mixed UNIX, Windows NT and Novell NetWare environment, VERITAS NetBackup provides advanced, "database aware" solutions for all leading databases, such as Teradata, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server.

About VERITAS Software

For enterprise customers who demand the continuous availability of business-critical information, VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS), the industry's leading enterprise-class application storage management software provider, ensures information availability from business-critical applications by delivering integrated, cross-platform storage management software solutions.

The company's products enable Business Without Interruption(TM) and are designed to protect, access and manage business-critical application information. VERITAS Software products are delivered through a global end user sales force and a worldwide network of enterprise VARs, resellers and OEM partners. 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/.>

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