Tuesday, 5 December 2006

Symantec Beefs up Data Centre Automation

Symantec has declared capabilities within its Veritas Server Foundation product family to transform the emerging field of Data Centre Automation (DCA). Symantec also unveiled Veritas Patch Manager, which adds patch management and patch distribution functionality to the existing operating system and application provisioning capabilities of Veritas Server Foundation.

According to the company, to manage the growing complexity of their data centres, enterprises require more than the automation of existing server administration tasks that traditional DCA products provide. Many enterprises have adopted large-scale shared architectures running complex multi-tier applications across a broad, distributed collection of physical and virtual servers, accessing terabytes of shared storage. If enterprises are to keep up with the relentless growth in demand for data centre services while keeping costs under control, they need an automated way to control applications, virtual machines, servers and storage.

“Symantec offers the only DCA solution that provides active management across all tiers in the infrastructure,” said Kris Hagerman, group president of Symantec’s Data Centre Management Group.

Symantec also released upgrades to existing elements of its Server Foundation family, Configuration Manager and Provisioning Manager. Configuration Manager discovers all servers, applications, any complex dependencies among them, and tracks any changes in real-time. This enables customers to gain control over configuration changes to improve application availability and ensure configuration compliance to internal standards.