Sun and Veritas Introduce Standalone Storage System

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Liam Eagle, theWHIR.com

June 20, 2001 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hardware manufacturer Sun Microsystems Inc. (Sun.com) and data availability specialist Veritas Software Corp. (Veritas.com) made a push into the stand-alone storage market Tuesday, with the announcement of a jointly produced network attached storage product to be distributed through Sun?s channel partners.

The solution combines Sun?s StorEdge T3 array and the company?s Enterprise and workgroup servers running the Solaris 8 operating system, and Veritas?s new ServPoint appliance software for NAS. The companies say the combination removes some of the traditional constraints placed on self-contained NAS appliances.

Sun has tried before to break into the stand-alone storage market on its own, but the companies say the new product will hold more appeal for companies running mixed networks, because Veritas is considered a standard in storage management software.

The product is part of Sun?s iForce initiative, and will be delivered by the companies? distribution partners GE Access and MOCA, companies that have built their businesses selling Sun and Veritas products.

"Today's storage market is one that is characterized by exponential growth and companies such as VERITAS and Sun have an opportunity to capitalize on this mulit-billion dollar market," says Dennis Martin, analyst and partner, Evaluator Group. "Sun and VERITAS have a NAS product that addresses enterprise-class capabilities beyond basic file services and this solution is answering the partners requests for a turnkey, rapidly deployed network storage solution."

The companies say that while network attached storage products sometimes cause problems because of interoperability problems between hardware and software supplied by different companies, the Sun and Veritas solution will have no trouble integrating, and would work anywhere.

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