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More businesses have become interested in utility computing, the ability to dynamically allocate computing, network, and storage resources as needed. But business-technology managers face a challenge in figuring out which approach to utility computing will best suit their needs.
Vendors offer a host of alternatives, ranging from outsourcing the entire IT operation, to buying hardware with extra processors or storage capacity that can be turned on when needed, to adding software that can shift workloads around to idle machines. Veritas Software Corp. is the latest to enter the market, trying to expand its position as the leading independent supplier of storage-management software by offering a broader array of systems-management and data-center-automation software.
“Storage is the closest part of the infrastructure to a utility because it’s centrally managed, centrally backed up, and recoverable,” says Gary Bloom, Veritas’ president and CEO. “Not many other parts of the infrastructure can say that.”
At its user conference last week, Veritas unveiled a batch of products to enhance storage-network and server-cluster management, key parts of developing a utility approach to computing. Customers say the vendor appears to be moving in the right direction.
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