Veritas Software

VERITAS Software Corporation ( Nasdaq: VRTS ) was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems as an international software company and in 1989 VERITAS Software Corp.. renamed. Corporate headquarters was in Mountain View, California.

Business

With the purchase of Open Vision Technologies in April 1997 and the Network and Storage Management Group of Seagate Software in May 1999 VERITAS grew to become one of the top five software companies in the world. In September 2004, VERITAS acquired the archive specialists KVS Inc..

Veritas was listed in the S & P 500 and the NASDAQ -100 and implemented in fiscal year 2004 with approximately 7000 employees, about 2.04 billion USD.

On 16 December 2004 Veritas and Symantec software announced their merger with an estimated value of USD 13.5 billion, which makes it the largest merger in the history of the software industry. On 24 June 2005 Veritas and Symantec shareholders approved the merger approved. On 2 July 2005, the merger of Symantec and Veritas was completed - the name Symantec remained as the sole company name (company) exist. The products are still available on the market after its acquisition by Symantec.

Products

Veritas was specialized in the field of storage management software. VERITAS Software, the first commercial journaling file system journaling Veritas File System (VxFS ) developed. In 1997, the Enterprise Backup product " NetBackup " was one of the products of the acquired by Veritas integrated into the portfolio and then with the acquisition of Seagate Software's Network and Storage Management Group in the area of ​​SOHO rounded by " Backup Exec" 1999. In support of computer clusters Veritas Cluster Server is sold. On SUN / Solaris systems, Veritas was the " Veritas Volume Manager " (VxVM ) quasi - monopolist in the field Disk Management Tools (english volume management tools ), which - as of 2004, prior to its acquisition by Symantec - wholly or in part by Microsoft built into Windows, and later through the acquisition - in 2005 - went on to Symantec. This volume manager there were later also for GNU / Linux ( see also Logical Volume Manager).