Arctera Completes Separation from Veritas Technologies

Arctera, a global provider in data management, finalized its separation from Veritas Technologies to create a new independent company formed around its Data Compliance, InfoScale and BackupExec businesses.

The new company will help organizations thrive by delivering solutions that enable them to trust, access and illuminate their critical data.

Lawrence Wong, new CEO, Arctera, said: “The Arctera portfolio of solutions has delivered decades of innovation. Now, they will take center stage at Arctera with dedicated engineering, customer care and sales functions, which we believe will further unlock their value for our customers.”

Arctera will operate as 3 distinct product business units, each tailored to solve the most demanding data challenges for their customers. 10,000 of customers around the world already trust Arctera for their data compliance, data availability and data protection needs, including 70% of the Fortune 100.

Chang-bok Lee, managing director and CISO, information security office, Lotte Card, said: “Arctera solutions have been strategic to our business for many years. Now that they’re getting a new level of dedicated focus as part of the standalone company, we expect the pace of innovation and increased support will create even more opportunities for our organizations to work together. We’re excited about our future with Arctera.”

Matt Collins, VP, partner management and strategic alliances, Insight, said: “When a vendor aligns training and rewards with the objectives of their product portfolios, our success is amplified. The Arctera channel strategy, built around their core offerings of Data Compliance, Resilience and Protection, is poised to enhance our partnership experience and bolster our efforts in supporting our mutual clients. We are excited about the potential for achieving our goals alongside the new Arctera team.”

The Arctera leadership team has been handpicked to ensure continuity for the customer and partner community, while infusing new ideas and best practices. In addition to Wong, the company is led by a group of industry experts whose experience spans technology leaders such as Avaya, Cisco, Dell, HP, Hitachi and VMware.

Wong said: “The whole Arctera proposition has been built around our customers. We’re creating the best possible customer experience by dividing our business into focused units that align to customer use cases. Every customer can be certain that Arctera is prioritizing their exacting needs.”

Headquartered in Pleasanton, CA, Arctera has more than 1,500 employees, based in facilities spanning the globe.

Resource:
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Comments

Considering that InfoScale stays in the new entity, Arctera is the new name of the old Veritas Software if we remove Backup Exec product which arrived with the Seagate NSMG acquisition in 1999. Of course the company had several lives and the trajectory we published a few days ago associated with the Cohesity - Veritas Technologies NetBackup merge summarized pretty well also the Veritas brand journey. We didn't mention the Tolerant roots of Veritas Software neither all acquisitions you can check here.

When we mention Veritas in the industry, historically 2 products resonate, obviously I refer here to old or let's say experienced people who were in the industry before and after 2000, in the 90's. The 2 products are Veritas File System aka VxFS and Veritas Volume Manager aka VxVM, with tons of OEM and integrations in various Unix many years ago, later Windows NT with LDM and Linux. Many current systems, with a critical business or IT role, continue to rely on these 2 foundation layers as they really played a key role in the industry and served for decades a reference.

These 2 products have been bundled under the name Foundation Suite, then Storage Foundation and more recently InfoScale with also some applications iterations with the edition or HA extensions with 'Caterpillar' and VCS.

We understand it's a new era but it's incredible that the Arctera InfoScale product page doesn't mention words like file system, VxFS, Volume Manager or VxVM. Wow...