| Oracle and Symantec partner to bring Veritas Storage to Oracle Linux |
Jul. 17, 2007
Oracle and Symantec announced on July 17 that Veritas data center software has been certified for use with Oracle Enterprise Linux. The certification will help organizations running Symantec on Linux reduce deployment time and implementation costs.
Oracle Enterprise Linux, a feature of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux program, is fully compatible with RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Indeed, it is essentially a clone of RHEL. With this latest certification, Oracle Unbreakable Linux customers deploying Veritas solutions will receive enterprise-level support from both vendors. The certification includes the following six Veritas data center software products: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0; Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0; Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0; Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Veritas NetBackup 6.0 Client and Veritas.
This isn't really that much of a surprise since Symantec has long supported RHEL. Indeed, in March 2007, Symantec announced that it will be supporting Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas NetBackup products on the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
"The Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program continues to demonstrate strong momentum as we expand our work with industry leaders to help simplify the adoption, development and deployment of Linux in the enterprise," said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's VP of Linux Engineering in a statement. "Enterprise customers adopting Linux want to leverage the enterprise storage management and high availability processes and standards that are mainstays in their Unix environments. As a result of our work with Symantec, we are making it easier for customers to deploy Symantec solutions with Oracle Enterprise Linux."
Symantec also worked with Oracle to certify Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System with Oracle Real Application Clusters on Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat and Novell's SUSE Linux. This will offer Oracle Real Application Clusters customers running Linux the option to deploy Symantec's scalable file system and enterprise storage management solution.
According to Moncia Kumar in an interview, Oracle's senior director of Linux and open-source marketing, a recent Gartner study showed that Oracle has 82.6 percent of the Linux RDBMS (relational database management system) market. Thanks to this, "many customers are getting on board Unbreakable Linux" as Oracle's foray into operating systems is "continuing to gain traction."
The Gartner report also noted that each of the major three [RDBMS] vendors continue to dominate their particular platform; Oracle on Unix and Linux, Microsoft on Windows, and IBM on the zSeries. Unix and Windows Server were still the leading RDBMS operating system (OS) in 2006 with 34.8 percent and 34.5 percent market share. Linux was the No. 3 RDBMS OS with 15.5 percent market share, but it continued to dominate in terms of OS growth, with 67 percent growth over 2005.
15.5% of the total RDBMS market is not spare change though. Kumar said "All the effort behind Linux is paying off with more than billion dollars annually coming from Oracle products running on Linux." Now, "Oracle is focusing on growing its partner system with Unbreakable Linux."
"Adopting a standardized software infrastructure that supports the heterogeneous data center enables organizations to reduce complexity and drive costs down while increasing service levels," said Rob Soderbery, senior VP of Symantec's Storage Foundation Group in a statement. "By continuing our work with Oracle, our customers will now have the choice of deploying Veritas high availability, data protection, and storage management solutions across every major operating system in their data center—including Oracle Enterprise Linux."
—Steven J. Vaughan Nichols
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