Achieving new efficiencies in IT administration

But in an information-driven world, data becomes a business-critical asset. Faced with ever-expanding data, businesses that rely on technology have created complex and volatile information technology (IT) environments on which their profitability depends.

Whether by design or accident, most organisations over time find themselves supporting equipment (servers, storage, network infrastructure, etc.) and applications (databases, enterprise resource planning (ERP)/EDI systems) from a variety of vendors. The best-intentioned policies to remain consistent to a single vendor or platform are inevitably diluted through acquisition, specialised systems or departmental needs and actions.

Unless the organisation is new, integrating and supporting legacy hardware and software investments requires a pragmatic, forward-looking IT strategy that accommodates the existing computing infrastructure and supports expansion as new business requirements emerge.

At the same time that the amount of data to be managed is exploding, many IT departments are experiencing budget cuts, or being asked to support more systems, users and data with the same budget and staffing levels.

VERITAS Software as a Strategic Partner for Cost-Efficient IT
VERITAS Software, the leading storage management provider, offers storage management solutions that address the challenges of today's IT environment. VERITAS offers a comprehensive portfolio of intelligent storage software solutions that help companies leverage existing resources, simplify heterogeneous system management and remain open to change.

Disaster Recovery Solutions
Disaster recovery requires more than just software; it calls for the expertise and planning to identify survivability requirements at every level of the business and implement processes and infrastructures to protect the business.

VERITAS provides software solutions supporting disaster recovery plans, including replication, global cluster/failover and off-site tape vault management. VERITAS Software's consultants and partners have the experience and integrated offerings to help you create and implement disaster recovery plans while reducing the disaster recovery investment through standardisation and automation.

The Ability to Execute, the Power to Change
The VERITAS portfolio of intelligent storage software solutions not only helps you leverage your storage and staff resources today, it also helps you remain flexible to adapt to changing infrastructures, needs and vendors.

VERITAS products are designed for interoperability, between products and across platforms, storage hardware and network topologies. Whether you change databases or server platform, VERITAS helps you keep your information-driven enterprise running. Because these solutions don't depend on single vendors, you have the option to change system or infrastructure components without losing functionality or disrupting access to information.

'The VERITAS strategy is to maximise return on investment from mixed computing environments so that the customer uses the software in the same fashion, regardless of the storage hardware or operating system environment. Since many customers have mixed environments, this is a well-founded strategy.'

As a software company in a storage market dominated by hardware vendors, VERITAS has the unique capability of being able to create intelligent storage software solutions that support heterogeneous environments, creating new standards for storage and system interoperability and integration.

Whether a company is facing rapid expansion or scaling back expenses and personnel, IT's job is always critical. VERITAS helps reduce the complexity inherent in managing the heterogeneous, always-online environment characteristic of businesses today. VERITAS solutions enable you to increase IT effectiveness and cut costs by reducing hardware expenditures, improving service levels and using personnel more effectively.

By offering a broad range of cross-platform solutions for keeping systems and data online and available, the VERITAS portfolio of intelligent storage software helps companies protect increasingly critical systems while securing and simplifying the administration of those systems.