Bangkok--Aug 19--Penner-Madison
Company teams with storage industry leaders to drive adoption of Bluefin storage management specification
VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS) today announced that its senior technical director of interface standards, Roger Reich, has been appointed chairman of the newly formed Storage Networking Industry Association’s (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative (SMI). The SNIA SMI is designed to accelerate the implementation of an open storage management interface based on the Bluefin specification for SAN management. As chairman of the SMI Committee, Reich will supervise the completion and extension of the Bluefin specification into a formal, industry-wide standard.
With today’s announcement, the SNIA has formally adopted the Bluefin specification as a cornerstone of its future standards efforts and created the SMI committee to assist in the integration of the specification into the organization’s ongoing technical work on storage management. The SMI will coordinate the significant resources of the SNIA to help companies more simply and efficiently build and manage multi-vendor storage networks. The SMI is comprised of a group of SNIA member companies also known as the partner development process (PDP).
“As a founder and leader of the consortium that drafted the Bluefin specification, VERITAS Software is excited to see SNIA embrace this important storage management initiative,” said Mark Bregman, executive vice president of product operations, VERITAS Software. “The work of the Storage Management Initiative directly aligns with VERITAS’ vision of providing customers with open, interoperable storage software.”
The adoption of the Bluefin specification by SNIA demonstrates the value and extensibility of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technology in establishing a common backbone for enterprise storage management. Using CIM/WBEM technology, the SNIA SMI will allow companies to select standards-based products to centrally manage their overall storage environments.
“VERITAS Software and the other PDP companies have significantly accelerated the process for developing a storage management standard for the industry by creating the Bluefin specification and submitting it to SNIA for further development. The SNIA looks forward to having VERITAS Software’s continued involvement in SNIA work group activities to develop Bluefin into a complete management standard,” said Arnold Jones, SNIA Technical Director.
VERITAS Software continues to work closely with the SNIA through its participation in training, plugfests, interoperability demonstrations and collaborative testing, and is leveraging its expertise in managing information across major network storage devices, hardware platforms and operating systems to develop storage software solutions that incorporate the CIM/WBEM and Bluefin technology standards. VERITAS products compliant with the standard will be available in 2003. Meanwhile, the company will demonstrate a prototype of VERITAS SANPoint Control? using CIM interfaces at the upcoming Storage Networking World Fall 2002 conference in Orlando, Fla. (Oct. 27 – Oct. 30).
About VERITAS Software
With 5,700 employees in 36 countries and revenue of $1.5 billion in 2001, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world. VERITAS Software is the world’s leading storage software company, providing data protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery software to 86 percent of the Fortune 500. VERITAS Software’s corporate headquarters is located at 350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA, 94043, tel: 650-527-8000, fax: 650-527-8050, e-mail:
[email protected], Web site: www.veritas.com.
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