The joint offering will include versions of Veritas Indepth for J2EE application performance management software, Veritas Cluster Server high availability solution and Veritas OpForce server provisioning software integrated with BEA WebLogic and Tuxedo platforms.  And because both BEA and VERITAS are independent software providers, the integrated offerings are designed to work with all major operating systems, hardware and enterprise applications.

"Until now, deploying an integrated applications platform built on a utility computing infrastructure required a single vendor, hardware and software lock-in,” said William P. Hurley, senior analyst, Enterprise Application Group. “This alliance will provide a compelling alternative for customers by allowing existing heterogeneous hardware and software investments to form the foundation of a fully integrated utility computing infrastructure."

As organizations increasingly deploy reusable application services to automate critical business functions, consistently delivering high IT service levels becomes paramount to business success.  Integrating BEA’s service-oriented infrastructure with Veritas' utility computing software building blocks, the joint offering is intended to allow for increased re-usability of application services, increased application performance and availability, greater IT adaptability to business changes and simplified IT management – which may ultimately result in reduced operation costs.

“Veritas and BEA are working together to help customers ensure that applications are available whenever users need them, that they process critical information quickly and can rapidly scale to meet changing business demands,” said Mark Bregman, executive vice president of product operations, Veritas Software. “Bringing together BEA and Veritas, two of the world’s leading independent software companies, is a major milestone for the delivery of open, heterogeneous utility computing solutions as the foundation for business applications.”

“While enterprises struggle to bring their operations costs down, demands on IT to serve more users with greater agility is going up,” said Tod Nielsen, executive vice president, BEA Systems. “We have expanded our relationship with Veritas to respond to the challenges of our customers’ computing demands to help ensure that their applications are provisioned to take advantage of their available resources, at a lower cost, in order to responsively meet business demand.”