Symantec throws weight behind Linux in IBM agreement

Stan Beer
Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:49

Business IT - Technology

Security and storage menagement vendor Symantec has announced an agreement with IBM involving delivery of Symantec high availability, storage management, and backup products for the Linux on POWER platform by the end of 2006. The solutions target clients consolidating Linux applications on the IBM System p platform.

According to Symantec, the announcement is an example of Symantec's commitment to support all major UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms in the data centre, enabling customers to standardise on a consistent software infrastructure across heterogeneous environments. 

As part of the deal, IBM will resell Symantec's Veritas Cluster Server and the Veritas Storage Foundation family of products with IBM System p servers for AIX and Linux on POWER in the US Federal and Japan markets.  

"Responding to the strong demand for a robust enterprise solution set for Linux on POWER, IBM has entered into this agreement with Symantec,"
said Ross Mauri, General Manager, IBM System p. "We believe the Symantec products will add even more value to what already is one of the most cost-effective and robust server lines on the market."

"Symantec is committed to offering the broadest platform support in the industry for our Data Center Foundation solutions," said Rob Soderbery, senior vice president, data centre management group at Symantec.  "This new agreement builds on Symantec's strong engineering relationship with IBM, extending it to the System p servers.  Through support of all leading hardware platforms, the Symantec Data Center Foundation reduces cost and complexity for customers by enabling data centre wide standardisation on a single infrastructure software platform."