Software security and storage specialist Symantec June 7 announced an agreement with IBM to port its Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Storage Foundation family and NetBackup recovery technology to IBM's Linux on POWER platform, opening a new door to the open-source enterprise storage market.

As a result of this port, Symantec's Data Center Foundation products are now available across all major Linux, Unix and Windows platforms. Symantec's Veritas Cluster Server, which works in a gridlike manner, aims to reduce application downtime and protect everything from a single database instance to globally dispersed clusters across all major operating systems, a company spokesperson said.

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