Stories about: Veritas Software

With more than half of its revenue now coming from outside the U.S., Symantec ended its fiscal year on a high note on Wednesday.

Microsoft and Symantec have asked a US federal court to dismiss a two-year-old lawsuit after the companies settled a dispute over storage technology.

Two years after its acquisition of enterprise software vendor Veritas, Symantec's consumer division remains the company's fastest-growing product line.

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Some industry watchers may still question why Symantec moved to acquire storage software maker Veritas for US$10.2 billion in 2004, but the fruits of the companies' combined labors are already proving the deal as a winner, according to executives with the massive security firm.

First it was international piracy rings, now its customers, being blamed for Symantec's licensing debacle which has slowed the processing of licenses for an upgrade to one of the company's key Veritas data backup products.

Symantec said last week that a piracy ring is costing it tens of millions of dollars in revenue and is partially behind a slowdown in the release of new software licenses for some Veritas backup products.

Hewlett-Packard will sell its last new AlphaServer system late next month - a plan that has been forcing users of the technology to decide whether to make one last hardware upgrade or move to a new platform.

EMC and Symantec missed out on a boom in storage software sales in the second quarter, according to research by IDC.

Users are saying that problems with Symantec's latest version of Veritas NetBackup are keeping them from rolling out the application even though the data backup and recovery product was shipped more than a year ago.

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