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India
Telecom
December 17, 2004
HP, VERITAS expand alliance under multi-year agreement
NEW DELHI -- Hewlett Packard and Veritas
Software Corp. recently announced an expansion of their
long-standing alliance with the naming of Veritas' products
as HP's preferred file system and volume management
solutions for HP-UX 11i operating environment.
Under a multi-year agreement between the two companies,
the OEMs will select Veritas storage foundation products
to extend industry-leading virtualisation and high availability
of HP-UX 11i to the Indian customers. This initiative
will ease customer evolution to high-end HP integrity
and HP 9000 servers.
This agreement enhances tight integration of virtualization
with high availability. It enables HP VSE (virtual server
environment) customers to expand and contract server
resources in real time based on business priorities
and maintain service levels in the event of unexpected
downtime. The companies plan to integrate key products,
including Veritas storage foundation cluster file system
and storage foundation for Oracle RAC, with HP Serviceguard.
HP Serviceguard protects mission-critical applications
from a wide variety of hardware and software failures.
Veritas storage foundation software provides simultaneous
access to storage from multiple servers, enabling load
sharing between servers and optimized use of shared
storage devices.
Agendra Kumar, country manager, Veritas, said: "HP's
strategic alignment with Veritas for clustering file
services is a welcome change in HP's roadmap, since
there is no need to re-invent the wheel. Veritas has
a proven track record in developing highly available
software solutions and we believe that this partnership
serves HP customers well."
Hemant Tiwari, director, enterprise servers and storage,
HP India, said, "The result of this alliance will
reflect in the benefits that our customers receive.
Our collaboration with Veritas helps us deliver on our
adaptive enterprise strategy and assists our UNIX customers
in its evolution to next-gen platforms."
Contact:
Hewlett-Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd.
Tel: +91-080-25633555
bharati.sudhir@hp.com
www.hp.com
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