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Veritas

  • Cohesity is acquiring Veritas

    Cohesity is acquiring Veritas

    This week, Cohesity announced it would acquire components of Veritas. It would be easy to misjudge this from the outside, but most Veritas customers are unlikely to have much angst about this; most will see this as a good thing. CIOs and IT leaders don’t like switching; they supplement until it becomes untenable. It does…

  • Wrap-Up on Backup from Veritas Vision 2017

    Wrap-Up on Backup from Veritas Vision 2017

    It would be easy to assume that because the Veritas name has been around for more than 20 years, its products are all legacy and no longer suitable to modern data centers or IT scenarios; you would be wrong. Veritas is “back” after its divestiture from Symantec—with a laser focus on data management that very…

  • Wrap-up on Backup – from Veritas Sales Conference FY18

    Wrap-up on Backup – from Veritas Sales Conference FY18

    This week, I had the privilege of being part of Veritas’ global Sales Conference (VSC), which Veritas themed as ‘Right Now FY18.’  Much of my early career was in pre-sales engineering and field enablement, so I always enjoy “internal” conferences, as much if not more than “external” trade shows, because: Internal events, whether sales kickoffs…

  • New Veritas = New Vision

    New Veritas = New Vision

    This week, the newly unencumbered Veritas (from Symantec) relaunched its premier user event – Veritas Vision. There was a palpable energy that resonated around “we’re back and ready to resume our leadership mantle,” starting with an impressive day one from main stage: And that was just the first two hours.  Along the way, the new…

  • Welcome Back, Veritas! The Truth is still the Truth

    Welcome Back, Veritas! The Truth is still the Truth

    Today, Symantec announced that the Information Management (Data Protection) side of Symantec will be called Veritas Technologies Corporation – (press release). Frankly, if they had chosen anything else, I would have been disappointed. The Truth is Still the Truth — “Veritas” actually means “Truth,” hence the original name as a way to imply the reliability…