VERITAS Software Corp'

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VERITAS Software Corp.
BUSINESS WITHOUT INTERRUPTION
Fredy Nick SE Manager
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Integrated Solution for Business without
Interruption
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World Class Company
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VERITAS Software Linux Strategy
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VERITAS Software Linux Strategy

• Linux Market Success Needs
• Application Storage Management Solutions
• VERITAS Software Product Roadmap for Linux
• VERITAS Software Linux Partners
• VERITAS Software Open Source Strategy
• VERITAS Software Support Strategy
• Summary

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January 24 Announcement Summary

• VERITAS Software demonstrates commitment to
  heterogeneous storage management solutions,
  including Linux
• VERITAS Software focused on developing strong
  Enterprise Linux market opportunities in file
  serving and database serving markets
• VERITAS Software partnering with Red Hat and
  Oracle to enable Linux solutions for high
  availability

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Linux Market Success and Needs
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OS Evolution
Year 0 5 10 15 20
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Linux Market Success and Needs

• Obstacles to Linux in the high-end Enterprise
• Storage and System Management
• Requirements for highly scalable database
  environments
• Adoption by broad systems integration community
• Need for education on availability of enterprise
  support, service, and knowledge

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Application Storage Management Solutions
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Application Storage Management Solutions

• File/Print/Email servers
• Distributed data storage requirements are
  growing exponentially
• Client/server applications require more and
  faster data as desktop processing and network
  bandwidth increase
• Most solutions are expensive, inflexible, and
  specialized

Customer Profile

• VERITAS Software
• Delivers High Availability solution with seamless
  failover of file services
• Eliminates maintenance downtime
• Minimizes unplanned downtime and failover process
• Increases fault-tolerance

Customer Solution
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Application Storage Management Solutions

• Database Servers
• Dependence on databases for all phases of
  operations
• Increasing data volume
• Continuous availability (24x7) of
  mission-critical databases
• Require faster access to data
• Database availability and performance impact the
  bottom line

Customer Profile

• VERITAS Software
• Increases performance dramatically with file
  system manageability
• Reduces production database downtime
• Minimizes database backup windowLowers CPU
  consumptionMore up-to-date backups
• Faster database recoverability

Customer Solution
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Application Storage Management Solutions

VERITAS V3 Storage Appliance Software Embedding
VERITAS software on the storage side of the
SAN
Distributed SAN Services
Foundation Suite

• Virtual consolidation point to improve
  manageability
• Minimize impact of physical SAN configuration
  changes
• Enabled advanced off-host services

Virtual Disk Layer
Samba

• Add-On Options
• Replication
• Backup
• HSM
• VCS

Network based Central Mgt.
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Application Storage Management Solutions
High Availability Solution E-commerce and
Databases
Application Service Group Application Servers
Application Service Group Database Server
Application Service Group nfs
Highly available clustered servers to keep your
data always available to customers and your
business
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VERITAS Software

• Product Roadmap for Linux

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Product Roadmap for Linux

• Linux Solutions Currently Available
• Client support in VERITAS NetBackup
• Client support in VERITAS Backup Exec
• Linux servers can be backed up into a centralized
  UNIX or NT server with VERITAS NetBackup or
  Backup Exec

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Product Roadmap for Linux

• VERITAS NetBackup
• Redefining enterprise data protection
• One solution for heterogeneous environments and
  all major databases
• Centralized administration
• Increased application availability for very
  large database (VLDB) and ERP applications (SAP,
  Baan, PeopleSoft)
• Lower backup cost of ownership

Availability 2nd Half 2000
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Product Roadmap for Linux

• VERITAS Volume Manager
• Provides highly available information systems
• Fault-tolerant data redundancy
• Online data backup and reconfiguration
• Increases application performance
• Streamlines data layouts
• Provides increases manageability of systems
• Reduces system maintenance costs
• Automates many typical offline administrative
  functions

Availability 2nd Half 2000
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Product Roadmap for Linux

• VERITAS File System
• Provides highly available information systems
• Eliminates system downtime
• Increases application performance
• Dynamic performance tuning adjusts to application
• Provides increases manageability of systems
• Reduces system maintenance costs
• Automates many typical offline administrative
  functions

Availability 2nd Half 2000
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Product Roadmap for Linux

• VERITAS Cluster Server
• Most scalable availability management solution
• Easy to install, configure and manage
• SAN architected
• Industrys broadest support for third party
  hardware
• Industrys broadest agent support for third party
  software
• Heterogeneous platform strategy
• Key component in the industries only credible
  wide area high availability strategy

Availability 2nd Half 2000
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VERITAS Software

• Linux Partners

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Linux Partners

• VERITAS Software and Red Hat
• Collaborating to accelerate availability of
  enterprise-class storage management software
  solutions for Linux
• Red Hat and VERITAS Software working together to
  deliver joint solutions to market
• VERITAS NetBackup client for Red Hat Linux is
  available with the Red Hat Deluxe package
• VERITAS Software and Red Hat investigating
  high-availability solutions for Linux

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Linux Partners

• VERITAS Software and Oracle
• Oracle and VERITAS Software are jointly
  interested in providing enterprise-class Linux
  solutions
• Oracle and VERITAS Software plan to address the
  high-availability needs of enterprise Linux
  customers
• Database Backup
• Journaled File System
• Volume Management
• High Availability Clustering

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VERITAS SoftwareOpen Source Strategy

• Layered software (on top of the kernel) can be
  sold just as it is today on other platforms
• Oracle 8i maintains pricing independent of OS
• VERITAS Software products will be sold in binary
  format
• VERITAS Software will work with partners in the
  Open Source community
• Any Linux kernel improvement will be open source

Linux Kernel
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VERITAS SoftwareSupport Strategy

• Coordinated Support Alliance(s) based on
  distribution channel and product strategies
• Marketing programs to enable customers to get
  both VERITAS Software and Linux support
• Knowledge base investment on Linux platform
• Partner agreements to
• enable quick and efficient customer problem
  resolution
• access to expert Linux support personnel

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VERITAS Software Linux Summary

• PLATFORM VERITAS Software demonstrates
  commitment to heterogeneous storage management
  solutions, including Linux
• PRODUCTS VERITAS Software focused on developing
  strong enterprise Linux market opportunities in
  file serving and database serving markets
• PARTNERS VERITAS Software partnering with Red
  Hat and Oracle to enable Linux solutions for high
  availability