espite efforts by more-established providers of enterprise-level storage management to retain their installed customer base, some business users are nevertheless migrating to client-server products from distributed-storage-management vendors.
The Boeing Co. is pulling IBM's Adstar Distributed Storage Management product and Legato Systems Inc.'s NetWorker storage-management software companywide in favor of Veritas Software Corp.'s NetBackup.
The deal with Veritas, which is expected to be announced as early as this week, will be rolled out in several phases. In the first pha
se, expected to be completed within 18 months and estimated to be worth $3 million, Boeing's commercial aviation division will use NetBackup for disk management and backup support for more than 5,000 servers and about 120 terabytes of data spread across six campuses at its Seattle location. Boeing will replace all existing storage-management products with NetBackup at four other comparably sized locations across the country.
Craig Cleghorn, Boeing's manager of storage management, says the aircraft manufacturer chose NetBackup for its scalability, ease of use, and ability to tie into a central management system. The company will continue to use IBM's mainframe-level Data Facility Systems Managed Storage (DFSMS) software for storage management in its OS/390 environment.
"Our goal is to ensure the success of our systems so we can get the airplanes built," Cleghorn says. "Just because you're in [our enterprise] today, doesn't mean you've won our business forever."
Despite losing Boeing's storage-mana
gement business, IBM will continue to partner with the company by providing tape drives.
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espite efforts by more-established providers of enterprise-level storage management to retain their installed customer base, some business users are nevertheless migrating to client-server products from distributed-storage-management vendors.
