Storage management company, Veritas Software Corp, which merged earlier this year with OpenVision Technologies Inc (CI No 3,078), has used its acquisition to fill out its online tools with a corresponding set of offline storage management products. The new Veritas claims that what it now has is a system from where administrators can manage any storage device from a single console, be it disk, tape, or server running any flavor of Unix or Windows NT in any location. The company has introduced three new products: Veritas Storage Manager, Veritas Storage Advisor, and Veritas Storage Advisor Planner. Storage Manager uses intelligent agents to monitor all storage objects on the system, including databases, file systems, data volumes, tape drives, back up jobs, network connected storage devices and high availability clustered servers. It collects the data in a central repository and based on business rules established by the systems administrator, can automate functions such as expanding file systems when a disk is about to run out of space, or instigating a back up. It will also send notification to the administrator. Storage Adviser provides an analysis of storage configuration and recommends changes to enable optimization of storage across the enterprise. And Storage Planner provides forecasting of future storage needs. The new products integrate fully with Veritas’ existing products including Netbackup and Volume Manager. Storage Manager will be available in Q1 of next year; Advisor and Planner later in 1998.
