Veritas CEO: EMC's WideSky validates Veritas' market positioning

By Robyn LoRusso, Assistant Editor 22 Mar 2002 | SearchStorage

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Bloom responded to the question of growing competition from EMC during a Q&A session at the SearchStorage.com Storage Management conference being held here. Earlier in the conference, EMC also announced that it's opening up AutoIS APIs to competitors in an attempt to push the WideSky platform to de facto standard status.

The storage market is in turmoil right now, partly because of the economy, but also because of a market redefinition, Bloom said. Big vendors, such as EMC and Sun, are value shifting from the hardware arena to the software arena, and the introduction of WideSky is case in point.

"It validates the very position we are in - the big guys validating what we have done," he said.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas offers disaster recovery, data protection, high availability and storage area network software solutions.

"We've been at it for 10 years," said Bloom, discussing how Veritas -- in contrast to EMC - has always been entirely dedicated to software solutions.

EMC introduced its WideSky open management software in October enabing storage management applications to handle multiple vendor offerings. According to the company, the new products deliver on the promise of AutoIS, bringing the power of an EMC-managed environment to an open world.

"Ruettgers' definition of open is 'We spend a lot of money on it so we're open.'" said Bloom. "I'm skeptical--I'm questionable as to whether they can really get there," he added.

When citing reasons as to why he believes WideSky is not "truly open," Bloom discussed how Veritas has to write its software to EMC's APIs. He referenced Veritas' Backup 4.5 press release that quotes EMC's Vice President of Alliances and Information Sciences Don Swatik as saying, "Through EMC's open APIs, Veritas NetBackup 4.5 offers our mutual customers an integrated backup and recovery solution that provides high performance data protection with minimal impact on production IT systems." Bloom said Veritas enabled NetBackup to work with the APIs.

"Sometimes it's WideSky, sometimes it's blue sky - not quite sure which," said Bloom. He added EMC really doesn't have the hardware cooperation it needs to make WideSky a standard.

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