History 2004: Veritas Acquires Ejasent

Another great fan of utility computing, as illustrated by its acquisitions of Jareva Technologies, Precise Software Solutions and Geodesic last year, Veritas Software treated itself, to the tune of $59 million in cash, to a company called Ejasent.

Based (like Veritas) in Mountain View, CA, Ejasent, headed by Jason Donahue (but he is going to leave the company), is the brainchild of CTO Rajeev Bharadhwaj, the former architect of Sun’s JavaOS.

The 5-year old entity, which will become part of Veritas’ high availability/clustering group, is best known for its strategic partnership with IBM last year.

It offers 2 flagship products. The first, Upscale, utilizes patent pending snapshot/restore technology to virtualize applications across pools of server and infrastructure resources in order to dynamically provision and deprovision complex, large applications including ERP and databases, across different servers based on demand. More interestingly, it takes a snapshot of the current settings of an application that is subsequently transferred to another server in near real time. The other product, MicroMeasure, which runs on Solaris, Windows, Linux and HP-UX, is a comprehensive usage data aggregation, reporting, and analysis system. It also monitors usage resources, like CPU, memory, storage, input/output and throughput, enabling cost allocation and charge-back of IT resources based on actual usage.

Veritas plans to incorporate MicroMeasure into its CommandCentral Service product. Both software will be delivered by Veritas in 2Q04, UpScale initially on Solaris, then on Linux in early 2005.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 192 on January 2004 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.