EMC's Data General Division and VERITAS Software Announce Expanded Alliance in Clustering Deal

Business Wire, August 1, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2000

Data General, a Division of EMC Corp., to Distribute Both

VERITAS ClusterX for MSCS and VERITAS ClusterX for NLB Worldwide

Data General, a Division of EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), and VERITAS(R) Software Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS), the data availability company, today announced an expansion to their alliance in which Data General will bundle a full-feature version of VERITAS ClusterX(R) for Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) with its Cluster-in-a-Box(R). Previously bundling a limited version of VERITAS ClusterX for MSCS, Data General will now provide a fully functional version, allowing customers to benefit from its comprehensive cluster-management functionality for managing multiple clusters and clustered applications from a single console. As part of this expanded relationship between the two companies, Data General will also resell VERITAS ClusterX for NLB, offering customers a complete Windows 2000/Windows NT solution for their clustered Internet infrastructure.

"VERITAS ClusterX is the ideal solution for providing high availability for MS Exchange, SQL Server, IIS and other applications in rapidly growing clustered Windows environments," said Steve Colman, vice president of worldwide OEM operations, VERITAS Software. "Data General customers will now have access to an integrated hardware/software solution that's ideally suited for those environments, simplifying the purchase and configuration of high availability clustering."

"This alliance between our two companies provides greater consolidation solutions for customers currently using Data General Cluster-in-a-Box," said Andrei Shishov, vice president of product planning and management for Data General, a Division of EMC. "VERITAS ClusterX provides the key features demanded by our customers for reducing cluster cost-of-ownership, while increasing the efficiency of systems management."

About Data General Cluster-in-a-Box

Proven to be one of the most successful methods for supporting mission-critical computing across the enterprise, Data General's clustering solutions offer a fast, highly reliable and highly available way to provide the applications availability operations demand. Compact, affordable and easy to deploy, Data General's award-winning AViiON(R) Cluster-in-a-Box offering is the industry's first high-availability Windows clustering solution, pre-packaged, pre-configured in one complete rackmount system with no single point of failure.

Data General's AViiON Cluster-in-a-Box solution combines the following key components for an unbeatable hardware platform:

-- Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition or Windows

2000 Advanced Server with MSCS for delivering performance,

resilience, and high availability to mission-critical

applications

-- DG/ManageSuite(TM) systems management software:

-- ClusterX for simplified and more-robust enterprise-wide

cluster management

-- ManageX Event Manager for monitoring and controlling

workstations, servers, and applications anywhere in the

network from a central location

-- Win/Alert(TM) for fault management and call home

capabilities

-- Application Transparent Failover (ATF) software for

continuous access to information stored on EMC CLARiiON(R)

midrange storage systems

-- Navisphere(R)storage management software for centralized

management of EMC CLARiiON systems

-- World-class service and support offerings

-- Two high-performance, highly available AViiON Windows-based

servers in one rack, with a single console

-- An EMC CLARiiON midrange storage system for fast,

uninterrupted access to valuable database information and

superior data integrity For specialized clustering needs, Data

General's highly available "in-a-Box" family of products also

includes TermServer-in-a-Box(TM) and Exchange-in-a-Box(R).

About VERITAS ClusterX for MSCS

VERITAS ClusterX for MSCS is the industry's first solution targeted at the management and deployment of enterprise-wide distributed Windows NT and Windows 2000 clusters. ClusterX co-exists with and extends the functionality of Microsoft Cluster Service to increase availability and lower cost of ownership of Windows NT clusters. Through powerful features and functions, ClusterX makes it easy to install, configure, administer, and manage Windows NT clusters and clustered applications. Extended functionality like application load balancing, backup and restore of the cluster configuration and a powerful dependency view, add to the ClusterX high availability solution for MSCS. VERITAS ClusterX supports multiple applications in MSCS clustered environments and is part of the VERITAS Exchange Initiative, a multi-phased program focusing on key areas of data management: backup/recovery, replication, disk management and SAN management. The objective behind the initiative is to leverage the strengths of VERITAS Software's core competencies in the Windows NT and Windows 2000 market and provide customers with superior solutions for Microsoft Exchange environments.