Symantec Ports Storage Apps To IBM's Linux Servers (InformationWeek)

[Posted June 8, 2006 by cook]

InformationWeek reports on Symantec's plans to port Veritas to Linux. "IBM said Symantec is working on a port of Veritas products for its Power servers running Linux. Symantec plans to deliver to IBM's Power on Linux platform by the forth quarter high-availability, volume and file systems management software applications, said Karl Freund, vice president of System p at IBM, Armonk, N.Y. The applications include Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, Storage Foundation, and Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC. Power servers can run Red Hat or Suse distributions of Linux, Freund said, as well as Red Flag in the Asia region."

(Log in to post comments)

Porting from?

Posted Jun 8, 2006 16:47 UTC (Thu) by tristangrimaux (guest, #26831) [Link]

The report does not state what are they using right now. By the way, they are really mad at people in Redmond, so this might be some kind of vendetta... aren't they?

Donde ser Geek no duele