ComputerWorld: Veritas Promises Linux Clustering

“Storage management vendor Veritas Software Corp. in
Mountain View, Calif., has announced plans to launch Linux versions
of all its key products, including its Cluster Server fail-over
software.

Cluster Server will be demonstrated at the LinuxWorld show in
New York, which opens Wednesday. Other products that will be ported
to Linux include the company’s NetBackup enterprise backup software
and its journaling file system. All products are scheduled to ship
in the second half of this year.

‘As (Linux) goes further into the enterprise and into
e-business, these sorts of tools will be needed,’ said Stacey
Quandt, an analyst at Giga Information Group Inc. in Cambridge,
Mass. But the clustering software will require modifications to the
operating system kernel, she said. ‘The question is: How is this
going to be accepted by the open-source community?’…”

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