Thursday, May 5 2005 18:12 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai: Novell and VERITAS Software Corporation today (May 5, 2005) announced an expansion of their strategic relationship based upon the development, certification and support of VERITAS' industry-leading storage management and high availability software for Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 platform under VERITAS' pre-release software program.

VERITAS plans to provide select customers early access to VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability (HA) software on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 under VERITAS' pre-release software program, with general availability of the product expected in the third quarter of 2005, company statement said.

With the general availability of the 4.1 version of VERITAS Storage Foundation software on Novell's latest Linux platform, VERITAS will provide customers with a greater range of choices for deploying Linux across enterprise IT environments, the release said.

"Linux adoption is rapidly gaining traction across the enterprise; greater platform and vendor choice continues to be a central value proposition for VERITAS," said Sanjay Poonen, vice president, Strategic Alliances, VERITAS Software.

According to the release, VERITAS Storage Foundation software brings unique capabilities required for mission critical applications of Linux, including storage area network support with dynamic multi-pathing, online storage management to reduce downtime, high performance file system and database access and a stable, mature code base.

Ashit Panjwani, MarCom director, Onward Novell, India, said, "Novell is delighted to have VERITAS' support of Novell's data centre Linux initiatives. Customers who are considering and planning data centre migrations from UNIX to Linux will soon be able to confidently deploy the market-leading VERITAS online storage management line of products on the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 platform."