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need for tape drives, tape media, or skilled IT staff at the remote
site.
Enterprise Vault
TM
This product provides a flexible, software-based message archiving
framework to enable the discovery of content held within Microsoft
Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and Microsoft
Windows file systems. In addition, this product reduces storage
costs and simplifies management of email. Enterprise Vault
software manages email and instant messaging content through
automated, policy-controlled archiving to online stores for active
retention and retrieval of information, and includes powerful search
and discovery capabilities, complemented by specialized client
applications for NASD (National Association of Securities Deal-
ers) compliance and legal discovery.
Storage and Server Management
Our Storage and Server Management segment provides solutions to simplify and automate the
administration of heterogeneous storage and server environments and provide continuous availability of
mission-critical applications. These solutions support all major server and storage hardware platforms, helping
organizations reduce the complexity of their enterprise data centers, improve service levels, and reduce
operation costs.
Our storage management solutions allow customers to more easily manage the growing data volumes
associated with enterprise applications, optimize the availability of data for such applications, discover and
control storage hardware assets, and improve the utilization of storage hardware.
Our server management solutions simplify and automate the administration and management of an
organization's server and application infrastructure. These solutions include configuration management to
discover what software is running on data center servers and how those servers are inter-related, provisioning
to deploy software onto servers in an automated fashion, and clustering software to help ensure that mission-
critical applications are always available.
Our client management solutions address enterprise needs for patch management, configuration manage-
ment, and asset management at the client tier. They help protect networked systems from known vulnerabili-
ties by testing and deploying software patches. They also simplify repetitive IT tasks such as configuring,
partitioning, provisioning, managing, deploying, and migrating PCs across the enterprise. In addition, they
help IT managers discover, inventory, and track hardware and software assets while ensuring license
compliance and secure disposal.
Our primary storage and server management products are:
Veritas Storage Foundation
TM
This family of products combines the Veritas
TM
Volume Manager
and Veritas File System to provide a complete solution for online
storage management. With Veritas Storage Foundation software,
physical disks can be grouped into logical volumes to improve disk
utilization and eliminate storage-related downtime.
Veritas Cluster Server An enterprise high availability solution that provides for automated
failover of servers running critical applications to maximize appli-
cation availability, even in the event of an outage. Through central
management tools, automation, automated disaster recovery test-
ing tools, and intelligent workload management, Cluster Server
allows IT managers to optimize the management and availability of
mission-critical applications.
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