Network Appliance and Veritas announce joint marketing and sales arrangement to deliver high-performance local NetApp data server backups

January 29, 1998 - Mountain View and Santa Clara, CA -- Veritas Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS), the leading provider of end-to-end storage management software, and Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP), the leading provider of dedicated, data-access appliances, today announce a joint marketing and sales arrangement in which the partners will co-market Veritas NetBackup and NetApp data servers, enabling high-performance local backups of enterprise data. Veritas has selected NDMP as the protocol of choice for localized backup of network attached storage servers.

"The combination of NetBackup and NetApp data servers will provide scaleable, extensible, high-performance backups of enterprise data," said Charlie Simmons vice president of marketing for Network Appliance. "Veritasí support of the NDMP standard provides a technical foundation for future storage and data management solutions that meet the needs of our joint customers."

Veritas supports the NDMP standard through an extension of NetBackup, allowing remote management of the NDMP client that resides on the NetApp data server. This combination of technologies enables high-speed backup of data to locally-attached peripheral devices, improving performance. Localizing backup operations avoids network saturation, especially in NetApp environments where a single data server may contain hundreds of gigabytes of data. NetBackup also leverages NetAppís "hot" backup capabilities to provide on-line backups of data and ensure 7 x 24 system availability. The combination of NetApp data servers, NDMP and NetBackup provide simple, centralized administration and backup of large-scale, UNIX and Windows NT environments.

"Veritas and Network Appliance share a customer base in the Global 2000. Our joint customers have asked for tighter integration between NetBackup and NetApp data servers. Our partnership provides a foundation for jointly meeting these customer needs," said Paul Sallaberry, senior vice president of worldwide sales for Veritas. "NetBackupís centralized management capabilities and NetAppís data server provide a simple, scaleable and performant solution for enterprise UNIX and Windows NT customers."

About NetBackup
Veritas NetBackup provides centralized management of backup and recovery for thousands of nodes across local and distributed servers from a single management console. NetBackup provides the industry's fastest, most scalable, high-performance networked backup solution-- bringing critical, mainframe-class data and storage management capabilities to UNIX and Windows NT platforms. Windows NT, Novell and Macintosh clients mean you can also incorporate desktop PCs into your enterprise backup strategy.

Veritas NetBackup is the only enterprise backup solution with single console management capability. This feature frees administrators from the painstaking task of logging into each node and managing it separately. With NetBackup, administrators can set universal backup and configuration policies that are automatically applied to each server and controlled from one console. NetBackup easily adds and configures new servers and manages local and remote distributed servers simultaneously.

About Veritas
Veritas Software designs, develops and markets enterprise storage management and high availability products that manage both on-line and off-line data for business-critical computing systems. The products are designed to improve system performance, availability and manageability while reducing the cost of administration. Veritas products are delivered through a worldwide direct sales force and a network of resellers and OEM partners in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. The company's world headquarters is located at 1600 Plymouth Street, Mountain View, CA 94043. Telephone 650-335-8000. Fax 650-335-8050. Email vx-sales@veritas.com. WWW site: http://www.veritas.com

About Network Appliance
Network Appliance develops and markets dedicated network storage servers for UNIX, Windows NT and the World Wide Web. These appliances deliver fast, simple, reliable, and cost-effective access to data stored in the network or across the Internet. The company pioneered the concept of the "network appliance," an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. Network Appliance Filers and NetCache Appliances are based on the company's innovative data access software known as Data ONTAP and standards-compliant hardware. More information is available on the Internet at www.netapp.com.

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