Veritas Software is porting many of its products to the SuSE Linux distribution, helping SuSE to offer the same kind of storage management features already available via Red Hat.
Starting this month, Veritas" File System and Volume Manager storage management applications will become available for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, said Ranajit Nevatia, director of Linux strategy at Veritas.
File System is a journaling file system for scalability and performance of mission-critical applications, which provides fast recovery of data in case of a system crash, while Volume Manager is an online storage management tool for heterogeneous networks. Both have been available for Red Hat for some time, Nevatia said.
Veritas"s Foundation Suite for Linux, which includes both File System and Volume Manager, is priced at US$1,500 for a server with a single CPU and scales in price to US$12,000 for an eight-processor server. When purchased with Veritas Cluster Services, the discount price ranges from US$2,975 to US$27,200.