Symantec unveils Veritas CommandCentral 5.0

Bangalore

August 17th, 2007

Symantec unveiled a major release of the Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product
family, a key component of the company's Storage United initiative to help
enterprises address their most pressing storage challenges with a unified,
software-oriented approach. Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 provides industry-leading
scalability and reliability coupled with the breadth of heterogeneous support
demanded by large enterprise data centers around the globe.

The Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 family includes Veritas CommandCentral Storage
5.0, Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 and Veritas Process
Automation Manager 5.0.

Veritas CommandCentral provides end-to-end visibility in both virtualized
server and storage environments. New in the latest release is advanced support
for VMware, HDS TagmaStore and IBM SAN Volume Controller.

"IT organizations need to have visibility and control over their
heterogeneous storage infrastructure in order to deliver storage services to the
business," said Rohit Ghai, VP-Engineering, of Symantec's Data Center
Management Group. "CommandCentral Storage 5.0 is the only SRM solution that
provides support for both physical and virtual environments with advanced
process automation and reporting features. Along with enhanced scalability, it
helps allocate storage resources and align IT with business needs".

"The storage environment has to be fully compliant with the industry
standards. Enterprises need a comprehensive and robust SRM solution that
optimize storage assets, improve storage processes and deliver storage services
to the business," said Vikas Pradhan, Director, Sales, Symantec India.
"CommandCentral Storage 5.0 is designed to help optimum utilization of
storage space and enables to view and manage the storage environment
constantly".

Accelerating Storage Optimization with New Services Offering

The Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product family is licensed per server.
Veritas CommandCentral Storage 5.0 and Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0
are now generally available. Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 is
planned to be generally available in the next 60 days.