VERITAS Captures The Essence Of Centralized SAN Management - Product Announcement

Computer Technology Review, July, 2000

VERITAS Software Corp. recently announced VERITAS SANPoint Control, a product designed to simplify and centralize the management of multi-vendor Storage Area Networks (SANs). The management product fills a need for corporations deploying SANs by masking the complexity of a multi-vendor SAN environment so that maintaining availability of enterprise data is the focus. Built on VERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer technology, the product helps customers visualize, monitor, and control SAN resources, regardless of the hardware. When combined with the storage virtualization capabilities of VERITAS Volume Manager, the new product also enables administration of logical storage pools from the application to the storage device.

"More and more Storage Area Networks are being deployed today as companies react to the explosion of data," said Steve Widen, research director of storage devices at International Data Corporation. "With these SAN environments comes a set of management challenges. Solutions such as [this product] enable corporations to realize the potential of their SAN today and focus on the consolidation and availability of their data."

"Our customers are deploying SANs and are turning to us to help them gain control of the environment without invoking management tools across every layer of the SAN," said Robin Purohit, senior director of product management for Clustering and SAN at VERITAS Software. "[It] allows companies to deploy their SAN, using the hardware components of their choice at every level, knowing they can manage the environment from a point."