The Foundation Suite, which long has existed for Unix servers, letsadministrators more easily manage how a server communicates with multiplestorage devices.
Veritas, which earlier had sold backup software for Linux, said at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expothat later this year it plans to bring to the open-source operating system its "clustering" software, a respected high-end package that lets one server take over for a crashed comrade.
Some executives at Veritas, a leader in the market for software that controls storage systems, had questioned the maturity of the comparatively new operating system. But the Mountain View, Calif.-based company is warming to Linux: OnWednesday at LinuxWorld, the company quoted IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky aspredicting that Linux likely will continue to be the fastest-growing serveroperating system for 2001, a position it's held for the preceding three years.
The Foundation Suite costs $1,500 for a single-CPU server.FlashSnap, which lets a customer make rapid copies of a storage system andquickly backtrack to them if something goes wrong, is an extra optionstarting at $750.
Meanwhile, Veritas competitor Legato on Tuesday said that it has released its NetWorker software to help run IBM's database software on Linux. Thesoftware enables online backup and restoration of DB2 or Informixdatabases.
The announcements join several others for higher-end use of Linux thisweek. IBM, which is leading the Linuxcharge, said it's nearly recouped last year's $1 billion investment in theoperating system. And mainframe software companies have begun backing IBM's effort to spread Linux tothis venerable but expensive server line.