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Veritas NetBackup 6.5: Unlocking the Power of Disk: The release of NetBackup 6.5 includes many new features and several new enterprise disk options - that improve the speed, management and cost of disk-based backup and recovery. This webcast will highlight these new options: Flexible Disk Option, Open Storage Option, Continuous Data Protection and show how these new options...; Tags: Disk, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS NetBackup; Webcasts 2008-03-04
Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Dynamic Multipathing: This paper describes the Veritas Storage Foundation Dynamic Multipathing DMP feature that first appeared in DMP release 5.0. It was subsequently backported to the Solaris 4.1 code base in SxRT 4.1 MP2, the AIX 4.0 code base in AxRT 4.0 MP4 and the Linux 4.1 code base in LxRT 4.1...; Tags: Code Base, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2008-02-21
Veritas Storage Foundation: Simplifying Heterogeneous Data Migrations and Data Mobility: All server and storage hardware has a useful life. And, unfortunately performing data migrations and array migrations are a question of when not if. Additionally with heterogeneous data centers and new technologies being introduced, infrastructure flexibility is paramount to business agility. The attendee of this webcast will learn how the...; Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Mobility, Server, Data Migration, Migration, Storage, Hardware; Webcasts 2008-01-08
Protecting Business-Critical Applications in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment Using Veritas Cluster Server for VMware ESX: This paper begins with a brief overview of the problems of High Availability HA and Disaster Recovery DR in the virtual environment. Due to server clustering, outages have the potential to affect many servers at once, possibly causing a corresponding failure among many mission-critical applications. The paper then presents several...; Tags: VERITAS Cluster Server, Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01
NetBackup Operations Manager: Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting for Veritas NetBackup: NetBackup Operations Manager NOM provides monitoring and management across multiple NetBackup servers. Communication between the NOM server and NetBackup managed servers is continuous, providing a real-time view of operations. A select subset of servers can be monitored using advanced data filtering options. Custom or ready-to-use filters allow only information satisfying...; Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., Monitoring, Server, VERITAS NetBackup, NetBackup Operations Manager, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01

Veritas NetBackup for Microsoft Exchange Server Solution Guide: NetBackup provides a comprehensive data protection solution including centralized administration and reporting, media management, automated policy based backups, and restore. NetBackup for Microsoft Exchange Server extends the capabilities of NetBackup to include online backups and restores of Exchange databases. Additionally, NetBackup for Microsoft Exchange Server also provides a solution for...; Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., VERITAS NetBackup, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Storage Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01
Implementing Highly Available Data Protection With Veritas NetBackup: The data protection system must be regarded as a 'mission critical' element of any modern data center. The design of any data protection system must, as far as possible, eliminate single points of failure so that data can be recovered to an acceptable state and point in time in the...; Tags: Data Protection, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS NetBackup, Data Protection System, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management; White papers 2008-01-01
High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Your NetBackup Environment: Veritas NetBackup from Symantec has been providing unparalleled data protection for enterprise backup and recovery environments for over a decade. NetBackup is a business critical application for most businesses, and more and more businesses are looking to make NetBackup highly available. The presenter of this webcast will explain why cluster...; Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., High Availability, VERITAS NetBackup, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; Webcasts 2007-11-06
Veritas NetBackup 6.5 for VMware 3.x: Best Practices: VMware virtual infrastructure software is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Considered by Gartner to be a "megatrend," VMware software is making its way into data centers of every size. Recognizing this trend, Veritas NetBackup has engineered innovative, award winning...; Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VMware Inc., Best Practice, VERITAS NetBackup, Storage Management, Backups, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-11-01
Veritas NetBackup 6.5: Designing and Implementing Backups Using Storage Lifecycle Policies: Veritas NetBackup 6.5 introduces two new features, Data Classifications and Storage Lifecycle Policies, that are intended to simplify the way in which backed-up data is organized. This paper looks at how these features relate to recovery service levels and how they can be deployed to help ensure that backup storage...; Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Backup, VERITAS NetBackup, Veritas NetBackup 6.5, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-11-01
Advanced Availability for VMware Infrastructure 3 - Veritas Cluster Server for HA, DR and More...: Where a hardware failure may have previously impacted a single application, with virtualization multiple applications would now be affected. It's like having too many eggs in one basket. There is a greater need for a single HA/DR solution that is application aware and provides -to-end capabilities for true high availability....; Tags: VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS Software Corp., Server, VMware Inc., Disaster Recovery, Storage, Hardware; Webcasts 2007-11-01
Veritas Storage Foundation Prep Utility: The Veritas Storage Foundation Prep Utility is a new tool for Storage Foundation users that simplifies and automates the installation and upgrade process to Storage Foundation 5.0. Simply stated, it is a must-use utility for anyone preparing for an SF-related installation or upgrade. The Veritas Storage Foundation Prep Utility significantly...; Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Veritas Storage Foundation Prep Utility, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-10-24
Using Veritas Portable Data Containers to Migrate Oracle Databases From Sun to HP Integrity: This paper describes how customers can quickly and easily migrate Oracle9i databases from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Linux or HP-UX 11i running on HP Integrity systems using the Cross-Platform Data Sharing feature of Veritas Storage Foundation. Migration of a single instance, single node database is demonstrated. The testing described...; Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Database, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Storage, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-10-01
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC With EMC SRDF: A Disaster Recovery Solution: This whitepaper describes Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC clustering and replication technologies. It examines EMC's SRDF data replication to disaster recovery sites and provides technical details on setting up a Disaster Recovery solution for Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC. This technical discussion only considers synchronous mode SRDF with...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Oracle Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, EMC SRDF, EMC Corp., Oracle Real Application Cluster, Disaster Recovery, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Software; White papers 2007-09-11
Getting Disaster Recovery Right and Dramatically Cutting Storage Costs With Veritas Storage Foundation and Symantec Enterprise Vault: Created by the merger of two major pharmaceutical firms, Astellas Pharma is committed to keeping operations up and running and medications available even if its data center goes down. To accomplish this goal the company built a disaster recovery site using host-based replication with Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Volume...; Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Data Management, Hardware; Case studies 2007-09-10
Veritas CommandCentral Storage - Supporting the Virtual Enterprise September 2007: Faced with exponential storage growth, increasing operational costs, data-center power and cooling limitations, and the need to provision and bring new applications online more rapidly to support critical business needs, many customers look to virtualization strategies to ease the management burden. As IT organizations look to different server architectures (e.g.,...; Tags: Scenario, VERITAS Software Corp., Storage, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-09-01
Reducing the Cost of Backup by ?50,000 Annually Using Efficient, Disk-Based Veritas Netbackup 6.0 Puredisk Solution From Symantec: Hosting is a highly competitive business and competitive advantage swings towards those companies that can provide a cost-effective, satisfying, and highly available service. Thanks to Veritas NetBackup 6.0 PureDisk Remote Office Edition from Symantec, the leading Belgian hosting company Hostbasket can tick all three of these boxes. By implementing this...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Disk, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS NetBackup, Hosting, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Security, Data Management; Case studies 2007-08-07
Veritas Storage Foundation and Sun Solaris ZFS: A Performance Study Based on Commercial Workloads: This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numbers. Pure performance numbers are interesting, but what is often ignored is how much CPU time,...; Tags: Performance, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Performance Number, Performance Management, Storage, Sun Solaris, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2007-08-02
Veritas Cluster Server HA/DR Fire Drill: Technology Overview of Automated Disaster Recovery Testing: Fire Drill builds upon the proven reliability, stability, and automated capabilities of Veritas Cluster Server HA/DR, offering customers a comprehensive and automated means of testing applications regardless of the disaster recovery solution employed. The process is repeatable and is consistent with the tools, utilities, and commands that the administrators are...; Tags: VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS Software Corp., Fire Drill, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Data Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-08-01
Oracle puts some Veritas meat on 'Unbreakable Linux': Oracle puts some Veritas meat on 'Unbreakable Linux'Impressive performanceQuoting:The Gartner report also noted that each of the major three [RDBMS] vendors continue to dominate their particular platform; Oracle on Unix and Linux, Microsoft on Windows, and IBM on the zSeries. Unix and Windows Server were still the leading RDBMS operating...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Linux growth, RDBMS, Oracle Corp., Linux, operating system, Microsoft Corp., VERITAS Software Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-07-17