[Vms.sig-hu] HP and Unix directions (fwd)

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Dátum: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:33:22 -0500
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: HP and Unix directions

Dear Distribution lists,

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you hear it from me.

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Sue

 
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PALO ALTO, Calif. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2,
2004--HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) and VERITAS Software Corporation
(Nasdaq:VRTS) today announced an expansion of their long-standing
alliance with the naming of VERITAS' products as HP's preferred file
system and volume management solutions for HP-UX 11i environments. 


Under a multi-year agreement between the two companies, HP plans 
to OEM
select VERITAS Storage Foundation(TM) products in order to extend the
industry-leading virtualization and high availability of HP-UX 11i and
HP Serviceguard software and further ease customer evolution to
standards-based HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers. 

The companies plan to integrate key products, including VERITAS 
Storage
Foundation Cluster File System and Storage Foundation for Oracle(R) 
RAC,
with HP Serviceguard. HP Serviceguard protects mission-critical
applications from a wide variety of hardware and software failures.
VERITAS Storage Foundation software provides simultaneous access to
storage from multiple servers, enabling load sharing between servers 
and
optimized use of shared storage devices. 

"HP's strategic alignment with VERITAS for clustering file services is a
welcome change in HP's roadmap, since there is no need to re-invent 
the
wheel," said Gene Batan, senior vice president and head of Systems 
and
Information Technology, Commerzbank USA. "VERITAS has a proven 
track
record in developing highly available software solutions and we believe
that this partnership serves HP customers well." 

The integrated solutions will be key elements of the HP Virtual Server
Environment (VSE) for HP-UX 11i. Tight integration of virtualization
with high availability enables HP VSE customers to automatically expand
and contract server resources in real time based on business priorities
and maintain service levels in the event of unexpected downtime. 

"Our collaboration with VERITAS helps us to deliver on our Adaptive
Enterprise strategy and assists our UNIX customers in their evolution to
next-generation platforms," said Rich Marcello, senior vice president
and general manager, Business Critical Servers, HP. "The thousands of
customers running HP Serviceguard on HP-UX 11i today will gain access 
to
VERITAS software -- directly from HP -- and close integration, a
simplified purchasing process and cooperative support." 

Building on its expanded relationship with VERITAS, HP plans to 
enhance
the HP VSE with a single virtual view that provides common 
management
and optimization of virtualized server and storage resources -- within a
single server and across clusters, including clusters based on HP
Serviceguard integrated with VERITAS Cluster File System. HP will also
simplify the management of virtualized environments with tools that
visualize the relationship between workloads and virtualized resources. 

HP plans to offer the integrated solutions as software bundles on HP-UX
11i v2 in the third calendar quarter of 2005. The new bundles replace
HP's previous plans to bring TruCluster technology and Advanced File
System to HP-UX 11i v3. The companies anticipate that this will
accelerate by about one year the delivery of similar capabilities to
HP-UX 11i customers and those transitioning from Tru64 UNIX(R). 

"HP's decision to make VERITAS the preferred file system and volume
management offering for highly available HP-UX 11i environments 
opens up
exciting new capabilities for our joint customers, and is a strong
validation of VERITAS' ability to deliver industry-leading
infrastructure solutions that support customers' heterogeneous
environments, including HP-UX 11i and other leading platforms," said
Kris Hagerman, executive vice president, Storage and Server 
Management
Group, VERITAS. "VERITAS is committed to working closely with HP to
deliver products and services to help customers quickly and easily
deploy the solution to enhance their mission-critical, highly available
application environments, including Oracle RAC." 

In related news, HP is expanding its successful Alpha RetainTrust
program for Tru64 UNIX customers. The program will now provide 
technical
assistance and best practices to help implement the HP Serviceguard 
with
VERITAS bundles as part of customers' transition to HP-UX 11i v2 on HP
Integrity and HP 9000 servers. HP continues its HP 9000 Evolution
Program, including workshops, tools, best practices and other
incentives, to provide a smooth transition to standards-based HP
Integrity servers. 

About VERITAS Software 

VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the 
world,
is a leading provider of software to enable utility computing. In a
utility computing model IT resources are aligned with business needs,
and business applications are delivered with optimal performance and
availability on top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing
hardware and labor costs. With 2003 revenues of $1.75 billion, VERITAS
delivers products and services for data protection, storage & server
management, high availability and application performance 
management
that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. More information about
VERITAS Software can be found at www.veritas.com. 

About HP 

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and
institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure,
global services, business and home computing, and imaging and 
printing.
For the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2004, HP revenue totaled
$79.9 billion. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com. 

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Oracle is a 
registered
U.S. trademark of Oracle Corp., Redwood City, Calif. VERITAS, the
VERITAS Logo, and VERITAS Storage Foundation are trademarks or
registered trademarks of VERITAS Software Corporation or its affiliates
in the U.S. and other countries. 

This press release may include estimates and forward-looking 
statements
within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, including statements relating to projections of
future product uses and development. These forward-looking 
statements
involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the
companies will not gain market acceptance of their products and
services, the risk that the companies' collaboration will not provide
new market opportunities for both companies, the risk that HP will not
be able to offer the companies' solutions as software bundles within the
expected time frame, the risk that the companies will not be able to
successfully integrate their products, and the risk that the companies
will not manage their businesses effectively, that could cause the
actual results the companies achieve to differ materially from such
forward-looking statements. For more information regarding potential
risks, see the "Factors That May Affect Future Results" section of
VERITAS' most recent report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 
September
30, 2004 on file with the SEC, and the "Factors that Could Affect Future
Results" section of HP's most recent report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended July 31, 2004 on file with the SEC. The companies undertake no
obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or
circumstances after the date hereof. 

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development, performance and market acceptance of products and 
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and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP's
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other reports filed after HP's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended Oct. 31, 2003. HP assumes no obligation and does not 
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(C) 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information
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