Specifically Veritas’ Storage Foundation will support 64-bit Windows and SQL Server 2005, while its i3 application monitor will support .NET applications and the new version of SQL Server.
Windows 2003 itself broke into the 64-bit world at the end of March, when Microsoft issued a service pack adding 64-bit support for the OS when running on the Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors.
Veritas quoted an IDC estimate that in 2001 only 22% of Windows servers were important enough to be attached to a SAN, but that that figure has grown to 41% by this year. At least some of that increase will have come about simply because SANs have become more commonplace, but it does also support Veritas’ argument that Windows is moving upmarket, and needs backup from upmarket tools.
Version 4.3 of the vanilla and HA versions of Veritas’ Storage Foundation for Windows adds support for 64-bit Windows, and 64-bit applications running on Windows. Storage Foundation for Windows comprises Veritas’ volume management, snapshotting and multi-pathing tools, and the HA edition of the suite adds replication and clustering tools.
The new version of the software suite will also support the release candidate of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005, which is expected to ship GA in November.
Veritas has also added support for .NET-inspired application to its i3 suite of tools. Clearly J2EE applications are predominant, but .NET is picking up steam, the company said.
Veritas describe i3 as an application performance monitor, which reports on and analyses performance from end to end, from user screen to disk array. It said i3 will see all entire .NET tiers including ASP.NET, ADO.NET and other components, breaking response times into work times, method invocation times and database invocation times.
