The company said the solution helps reduce the cost and total amount of resources required to deploy servers across networks running in heterogeneous environments. According to VERITAS, OpForce 3.2 supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, IBM AIX and Sun Solaris. VERITAS said the solution also supports provisioning of Intel 64-bit Itanium processor-based servers.
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Automated server provisioning is a key pillar of utility computing, a strategy that the company says it committed to.
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“The promise of utility computing benefits the end user when costs are kept moderate, however, management costs can increase in scale when multi-vendor data center environments need to interact,” said Fred van den Bosch, executive vice president and CTO of VERITAS. “VERITAS OpForce 3.2 enables our enterprise customers to obtain the benefits of a utility computing model by provisioning resources on any platform, which allows data centers to run more efficiently, and at lower costs.”
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According to VERITAS, deploying OpForce 3.2 allows customers to reduce the time required to prepare and provision 30 servers from more than 200 hours down to less than 15 hours.
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The company said VERITAS OpForce 3.2 will be available on March 1, 2004. Licenses are priced at $7,500.
