C A S E S T U D Y
VERITAS
®
Interoperable Solutions Form the
Core of VERITAS-QLogic Partnership
Partnership
Data Protection
Solution
SAN components
QLogic SANbox2-64
QLogic QLA234x HBA
Applications
VERITAS NetBackup
Sun Solaris
Microsoft Windows 2000
With both companies actively demonstrating strong commitment toward
product interoperability and solving customer needs, VERITAS Software Corp.
and QLogic Corp. benefit from a winning partnership that ultimately provides
the answers to the IT questions of today, for small business and enterprise
users in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments worldwide.
VERITAS — the world’s leading storage software company providing data
protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery
software — has established the VERITAS Enabled
™
Program. This innovative
technology partner program has resulted in a broad spectrum of interoperable
solutions by offering standardized testing tools, APIs and development
assistance along with a cooperative support model to efficiently address our
customers’ support requirements.
QLogic simplifies networking storage with controller chips, host bus adapters
(HBAs), network switches and management software that move data from the
storage device through the fabric to the server. QLogic has also established the
SAN Interoperability Guide — a one-stop Web-based manual for developers
and consultants to identify multi-vendor certification information for switches
and HBAs, as well as products powered by embedded QLogic technology.
Working together, VERITAS and QLogic provide our mutual customers with
supported solutions that are achieved as a result of the close engineering
relationship between the companies. QLogic’s proven storage hardware and
VERITAS’ industry leading data protection software offer SAN users the ideal
combination of performance, cost reduction and ease of use. The most-
recent evidence of this team partnership appeared when VERITAS qualified
QLogic’s family of Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure products for use with
VERITAS NetBackup.
“Extensive qualification testing of QLogic’s Fibre Channel products with VERITAS’
industry-leading backup and recovery software ensures the highest levels of re-
liability and interoperability for heterogeneous SANs,” “VERITAS Data Protection
Software combined with QLogic’s proven storage hardware offers a robust and
cost-effective solution for protecting critical data.”
– Bob Maness, senior director of product marketing, VERITAS Software
