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Italy. Worldwide SE – Product Operations Interlock HA. VERITAS Worldwide Backup Exec & NetBackup Pro SE Conference February 26 - March 1, 2002. Overview of Territory. Founded december 1999 46 Veritas employees 3 offices: Milan, Turin, Rome
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Italy Worldwide SE – Product Operations Interlock HA VERITAS Worldwide Backup Exec & NetBackup Pro SE Conference February 26 - March 1, 2002
Overview of Territory • Founded december 1999 • 46 Veritas employees • 3 offices: Milan, Turin, Rome • Key customers: banks, telco, utilities, outsourcers • Main competitors: Primary Competitors in HA Area are ServiceGuard on HP-UX (VCS has a very small install base in Italy on HPUX) and SunCluster; Microsoft • Best VCS Market penetration is on AIX
Strengths • Brand • Worldwide good references • Good Italian References • Reliability of the products • Wide compatibility matrix – hardware independency • Powerfull and Easy GUI • All operations on-line
Weaknesses • lack of references for VVR • No support in Italian for On-Line solutions • Microsoft Alliance • HP-UX Itanium not supported • Complex release upgrade process • Costs
Opportunities • Business continuity project • Basilea II • Standardization • Customers moving from Sun to FJS: value of our hardware independence proposal • VMware support • Microsoft Solutions
Threats • One vendor shops (HP, IBM), turnkey solution selling by big vendors • Hostility against new solutions (the customers don’t like to change their mind) • bundled OS VM/HA (HP-UX above all) • Costs, and new pricing models by competitor (example Sun’s JESS)
Wins • Banca Popolare di Verona e Novara • SFWHA for MSSQL in a multinode cluster • only we can deliver a complete business continuity solution across all the platform: this cluster is the starting point
Losses • Insurance company (DirectLine) • SFHA+VVR on HP-UX and Windows • EMC won the business • the customer thinks according to EMC willing
Top 10 • Support in Italian language. • VMware deeper support • Itanium support • Linux on Itanium • Cluster between PA-RISC and Itanium • iSCSI