Symantec Corp. has introduced the Symantec Data Center Foundation, an integrated solution that enables enterprises to standardize on a consistent software infrastructure across heterogeneous application, database, server and storage platforms. The solution incorporates Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Server Foundation and Veritas i3 application performance management, and leverages a common integration platform across the product families.

The company said enterprises will be able to replace dozens of different tools with the Symantec Data Center Foundation, enabling protection and availability of critical information and applications, improved utilization of storage and server hardware assets, and enhanced visibility and control of complex data center environments.

With the Symantec Data Center Foundation, Symantec plans to provide a range of critical technologies, such as data protection and data management, storage tiering, server and storage consolidation, data migration, storage capacity management, server automation, application availability and disaster recovery, designed to help IT take proactive control of the data center, drive down costs and increase service levels.

The Symantec Data Center Foundation provides a single set of solutions that enables companies to simplify their data centers, actively manage and optimize their diverse storage and server assets, and deliver enhanced IT service levels that not only support the business, but actually drive competitive advantage.

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The Symantec Data Center Foundation is designed to support all major open systems UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms, including Solaris, Solaris Opteron, HP-UX, AIX, Red Hat Linux, Novell SUSE Linux and Windows, as well as popular server virtualization technologies for these OS environments. Also supported are all major enterprise and modular storage hardware platforms from EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, Sun, Network Appliance and other vendors. The Symantec Data Center Foundation is also optimized for use with Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SAP, Oracle Applications (including Siebel and PeopleSoft), BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and hundreds of other applications.