veritas in comment and analysis
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment Also, XenSource has signed an OEM agreement to embed the Veritas Storage Foundation storage management software into XenEnterprise to help develop unified server and storage virtualisation capabilities that will further bring it into competition... [05 Sep 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Look out for the little guy
Comment Similarly, Symantec bought Veritas with a core intention to create bigger, more comprehensive software bundles. Vendors who make software and hardware easy enough to use and manage for smaller companies will inevitably reap big rewards, says... [05 Jan 2006]
Leader: Closure at the end of the calendar year?
Leader Just a few days later came the unexpected announcement that Symantec was to purchase Veritas for $13.5bn, the biggest software merger yet, though admittedly not one that can be said to end any period of toing and froing. [23 Dec 2004]
Leader: What Symantec-Veritas deal tells us
Leader Much has already been said about the Symantec-Veritas marriage given that it has been telegraphed over the past week. Symantec has been expanding its reach for some time but with Veritas - speciality: storage management software - its range becomes... [16 Dec 2004]
Leader: Is CRM a zero sum game?
Leader Many software companies have been having problems, even those with a relatively good last few years, such as storage software specialist Veritas, but here we have Salesforce.com punished just as it gets to market for failing to wipe the floor with... [23 Jul 2004]
Investors want answers from Microsoft
Comment More broadly, software industry watchers will be looking to the Microsoft report as a possible bright spot in what has been a tough quarter, marked by earnings warnings from Siebel Systems, BMC Software, PeopleSoft and Veritas Software, among others. [22 Jul 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Storage meets business
Comment EMC was quick to jump on the bandwagon, and a number of other companies including Veritas have adopted the idea of 'lifecycle management' - in Veritas's case, it is called Data Lifecycle Management. Like IT itself, a recent trend in storage is to... [11 Jun 2004]
Leader: Storage - truly a small business issue
Leader Earlier this week silicon.com caught up with the boss of another of the most important companies in this sector, Gary Bloom of storage software management outfit Veritas. Dell and EMC yesterday decided to turn their combined attention to SMEs. [27 May 2004]
Analysis: Dell and SAP - what's the attraction?
Comment As such, SAP already has 'centres of excellence' with Dell's main rivals, while a company such as Sun has similar arrangements in place for software from the likes of IBM, Oracle and Veritas. Dell last week followed up a 12-month-old formal Oracle... [04 May 2004]
IM: Managing the medium, managing the message
Comment I use it all the time," explains Guy Bunker, chief scientist at software firm Veritas. Choosing IM as a new means of corporate communications is not a decision to be made by IT managers or the board. The decision has already been made, with... [24 Sep 2003]
Through the fog... Storage as a service
Comment These things are coming, indeed they are available from several suppliers (CA and Veritas to name a couple), but they are not yet considered as standard. Storage can seem so boring but the message is clear - ignore the latest developments at your... [04 Apr 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Touchy-feely PCs, HP and, like, storage man, and Citrix's big idea
Comment Today, storage management is a very competitive environment and HP will be battling with other giants such as IBM/Tivoli, EMC, HDS, CA and Veritas for a share of the market. Fed up with pounding the keyboard with your fingers? [17 Sep 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: EMC's top spot scrutinised, UK Even-More-Online, revenge of the helpdeskers
Comment Over a period of time, it has been trying to promote the idea that it has a software solution that could rival those of the big players - CA, Legato, Tivoli and Veritas, to name but four. EMC's name cropped up among the glitz and glamour of CA... [16 Jul 2001]
Storage: A year in review
Comment Veritas reported first quarter revenues up 82 per cent, but speakers we interviewed at the company's annual user conference claimed vendor self-interest and competing industry bodies were hindering the adoption of SANs. [19 Dec 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Back-up fracas, Palm and Sony, and traffic measurement
Comment Just two days after making inaccurate claims for its own ARCserve product, Computer Associates has challenged Veritas to prove that it can substantiate its claim that it can read ARCserve tapes. Two days later, on 22 June, Veritas sent out a... [03 Jul 2000]
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