Veritas Software

For other uses, see Veritas (disambiguation).
Veritas Software Corporation
Public
Industry software industry
Fate Acquired by Symantec in 2005
Successor Symantec Corporation
Founded 1989
Defunct Became a part of Symantec in 2005
Headquarters Mountain View, California, USA
Key people
Mark Leslie, CEO 1990 - 2000; Gary Bloom, CEO 2000 - 2005
Products VxSF (incl. VxFS and VxVM)
NetBackup
Backup Exec
Cluster Server (VCS)
Enterprise Administrator
Volume Replicator (VVR)
SANPoint
Revenue $2.04 billion USD (2004)
Number of employees
7000
Website www.veritas.com

Veritas Software Corporation is an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company specialized in storage management software including the first commercial journaling file system, VxFS, VxVM, VCS, the personal/small office backup software Backup Exec and the popular enterprise backup software, NetBackup. Veritas Record Now was an early CD recording software. Veritas was listed on the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ-100 under the VRTS ticker symbol.

History

Early history

Tolerant Systems was a company founded in 1983 by Eli Alon and Dale Shipley (both from Intel) to build fault-tolerant computer systems based on the idea of "shoe-box" building blocks. The shoe box consisted of an OS processor, running a version of Unix called TX, and on which applications ran, and an I/O processor, running a Real Time Executive, developed by Tolerant, called RTE: both processors were 320xx processors. The system was marketed as the "Eternity Series."

The TX software gained a level of fault-tolerance through check-pointing technology. Applications needed to be fortified with this check-pointing to allow roll-back of the application on another processor if a hardware failure occurred. Tolerant also developed a forerunner of today's RAID systems by incorporating a journaling file system and multiple copies or N-plexing the disk drive content.

Dale Shipley formed Tolerant Software in Jan. 1988. Tolerant Software produced a journaling file system and a virtual disk management system for the AT&T UNIX platform, which was built by a new team led by John Carmichael. In 1989, Mark Leslie joined the company as CEO and renamed the company as VERITAS in honor of Harvard, his alma mater

The firm started out with a relationship with AT&T to provide the file ( Veritas File Manager - VxFS) and disk management (Veritas Volume Manager - VxVM) software for its UNIX operating system, and to jointly market and support the products to the System OEMS (Sun, HP, etc.). The OEM model provided royalties to Veritas when the OEM shipped its products to end users.

On December 9, 1993 the company had its initial public offering (IPO), selling 16 million shares to the public, and valuing the company at $64 million.

Growth and Acquisitions

At the end of 1996 Veritas had revenues of $36 million.

Merger, and subsequent history

On December 16, 2004, Veritas and Symantec announced their plans for a merger in a deal valued at $13.5 billion. It was the largest announced software industry merger to date. On June 24, 2005, Veritas and Symantec shareholders voted to approve the merger. On July 2, 2005, Symantec and Veritas finalized the merger and the resulting company has retained the name Symantec.

On October, 10th, 2014, Symantec announced the split of the company into two parts:[3] The security business remaining with Symantec., and the Information Management business to be known as Veritas Technologies Corporation. The separation of the companies is expected to be completed by January 29, 2016.[4]

On August 11, 2015 Symantec announced the sale of its Veritas information management business to The Carlyle Group. Veritas and Symantec achieved operational separation on 1st October 2015. The sale completed 30th January 2016 when Veritas became a privately held company. [5] [6]

Lawsuits

In 1999, VERITAS Software Corp. (VERITAS US) and VERITAS Ireland entered into a cost-sharing agreement (CSA) which was the subject of litigation with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. [7]

See also

References

  1. "Veritas Buys Pair of Software Firms". eWeek. 2002-12-19.
  2. Boulton, Clint, "Veritas Closes Precise Software Purchase", InternetNews.com --June 30, 2003--, retrieved 2009-11-03
  3. Robertson, Jordon, "Symantec to Split Into Storage, Security Companies", bloomberg.com -- Oct 10, 2014--, retrieved 2014-10-10
  4. corporate press release, Symantec and The Carlyle Group Plan to Close Acquisition of Veritas January 29, 2016, retrieved 2016-01-03
  5. corporate press release, Symantec to Separate Into Two Focused, Industry-Leading Technology Companies, retrieved 2015-08-12
  6. corporate press release, Symantec and Veritas separation (PDF), retrieved 2016-02-15
  7. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17681094442401642589&q=Veritas+Software+Corp.+v.+Commissioner,&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48&as_vis=1

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