MOUNTAIN VIEW and SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 12, 2004 - VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTSE) and BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, today announced a global strategic alliance aimed at helping customers deploy enterprise applications on the first open, heterogeneous utility computing platform. The two companies plan to provide an integrated offering and engage in joint development, sales and marketing activities.
The joint offering is slated to include versions of VERITAS Indepth(TM) for J2EE application performance management software, VERITAS Cluster Server(TM) high availability solution and VERITAS OpForce(TM) server provisioning software integrated with BEA WebLogic® and Tuxedo® platforms. And because both BEA and VERITAS are independent software providers, the integrated offerings are designed to work with all major operating systems, hardware and enterprise applications.
"Until now, deploying an integrated applications platform built on a utility computing infrastructure required a single vendor, hardware and software lock-in," said William P. Hurley, senior analyst, Enterprise Application Group. "This alliance will provide a compelling alternative for customers by allowing existing heterogeneous hardware and software investments to form the foundation of a fully integrated utility computing infrastructure."
As organizations increasingly deploy reusable application services to automate critical business functions, consistently delivering high IT service levels becomes paramount to business success. Integrating BEA's service-oriented infrastructure with VERITAS' utility computing software building blocks, the joint offering is intended to allow for increased re-usability of application services, increased application performance and availability, greater IT adaptability to business changes and simplified IT management - which may ultimately result in reduced operation costs.
"VERITAS and BEA are working together to help customers ensure that applications are available whenever users need them, that they process critical information quickly and can rapidly scale to meet changing business demands," said Mark Bregman, executive vice president of product operations, VERITAS Software. "Bringing together BEA and VERITAS, two of the world's leading independent software companies, is a major milestone for the delivery of open, heterogeneous utility computing solutions as the foundation for business applications."
"While enterprises struggle to bring their operations costs down, demands on IT to serve more users with greater agility is going up," said Tod Nielsen, executive vice president, BEA Systems. "We have expanded our relationship with VERITAS to respond to the challenges of our customers'
computing demands to help ensure that their applications are provisioned to take advantage of their available resources, at a lower cost, in order to responsively meet business demand."
BEA and VERITAS Integrated Offering
The BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) provides a robust, standards-based, scalable infrastructure for the development and deployment of enterprise applications. VERITAS provides a building block approach to utility computing, with integrated software offerings that can enable IT to align with changing business requirements. By evolving to a utility computing model using VERITAS' building block approach, customers can optimize their existing IT infrastructure to meet required service levels while helping to lower the cost of operation and management.
Application Performance: VERITAS Indepth(TM) for J2EE - WebLogic Server The companies have integrated VERITAS Indepth for J2EE with BEA WebLogic
Server(TM) to help optimize the performance of WebLogic-based applications, helping customers achieve maximum productivity by proactively managing the performance of applications - from development through production deployment. The offering is designed to enable administrators to automatically identify performance problems and generate recommendations on corrective actions while the application is running and before the customer's business is impacted.
High Availability: VERITAS Cluster Server for WebLogic Server The companies have integrated VERITAS Cluster Server with BEA WebLogic Server to help ensure that applications are highly available, easy to manage and perform optimally by running the WebLogic and Tuxedo platforms in a clustered server environment. The offering simplifies capacity and performance planning, while protecting against application failure, both locally and site-wide.
Server Provisioning: VERITAS OpForce(TM) for WebLogic Server The companies plan to integrate VERITAS OpForce software with BEA WebLogic Server to help simplify and automate the process of deploying, provisioning and managing multiple WebLogic servers. With VERITAS OpForce for WebLogic Server, administrators can quickly discover available servers, prepare them for deployment and provision them to areas of critical need in running applications on the network -- all via a remote Web interface. The offering will be designed to automate the time-consuming, repetitive and mundane tasks of provisioning and deploying servers, whether for a planned build or responding to peak activity that requires additional application server resources.
Pricing and Availability for Integrated Technology VERITAS Indepth for J2EE is available to customers today, with pricing starting at $4,000. VERITAS Cluster Server with BEA WebLogic Server is available to customers today, with pricing starting at $2,995. The VERITAS OpForce/BEA WebLogic Server is scheduled to be available in the second half of 2004. Pricing will be set when it becomes available.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation for more than 15,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® and Tuxedo® brands are among the most trusted names in business.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 75 offices in 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.
About VERITAS Software
VERITAS Software, one of the top 10 largest software companies in the world, is a leading provider of software to enable utility computing. In a utility computing model IT resources are aligned with business needs, and business applications are delivered with optimal performance and availability on top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing hardware and labor costs. VERITAS products for data protection, storage & server management, high availability and application performance management are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. More information about VERITAS Software can be found at www.veritas.com.
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