Veritas

Cohesity is acquiring Veritas

2024-02-10

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

2017-10-13

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…
Thank You, Analyst Relations

2017-05-24

I’ve had the honor to participate in three very different events in the last three weeks. Each gave me the opportunity to serve, share ideas, and hopefully contribute value to the attendees. If you’d like to read more about the events, check out these blog posts:
Wrap-up on Backup – from Veritas Sales Conference FY18

2017-05-04

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

2016-09-15

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: Bill Coleman (CEO) started the event by making “information is everything” personal by…
A Few of the Backup Appliances Examined by ESG Lab

2015-03-06

This week, I offered some perspectives on What Makes a Good Backup Appliance, and I’d like to offer some further perspective on these types of products. My thoughts on What Makes a Good Backup Appliance include: Part 1 – Understanding the appeal of PBBAs (turnkey solutions)Part 2 – Basic guidance on the value-prop of PBBAsPart…
Welcome Back, Veritas! The Truth is still the Truth

2015-01-28

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…
I watched a DataCenter get hit by a Hurricane … and recover

2013-12-04

I don’t often re-post vendor marketing content – but since they let me be a small part of simulating a hurricane/flood of a datacenter … Symantec rented out a 6-story hurricane (100mph) simulator in South Carolina … and then flooded a working datacenter server-stack with 35,000 gallons of water: Most folks know me as a…
Cool High Availability Video from Symantec

2012-10-03

Every IT guy has had a day when they wanted to take a sledgehammer to a server or maybe drop a whole rack from a tall building. Admit it, we’ve all thought about it – but then, you’d have to rebuild everything and in the meantime, deal with the outage and all of the disgruntled…
Sepaton announces 6.1 release

2012-06-06

With an architecture that is designed to scale-up (compute) its storage and dedupe controllers, separate from how it scales-out (capacity) is storage nodes, Sepaton markets itself as the only data protection solution that is designed solely for large enterprises. In its 6.1 release, Sepaton brings new options to Symantec owners, through its recent OST certification…

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