"With its announcements this week around virtualization and Red Hat Linux, Symantec is moving beyond a past strategy of providing tools for multiple OS to a new vision of managing multiple virtualization environments. In this emerging area of heterogenuous virtualization management, Symantec is also bound to face plenty of competition from companies ranging from Microsoft to VMware and XenSource. But Symantec is well up to the challenge, according to some analysts who are deeply steeped in virtualization technologies.
"Symatec's latest announcements contain Linux as well as virtualization planks. On the Linux side, Symantec will add to its long-time Red Hat support by providing three storage solutions--all originally obtained through its acquisition of Veritas--for the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5..."
