However, NetApp and Veritas bat down the suggestion that their expanded partnership is a defensive maneuver to the proposed EMC/Legato deal.
"We don't feel that's a threat we need to respond to directly," says Robert Soderbery, VP of business development at Veritas. "However, we do feel it's a point at which Legato customers will want to reevaluate their providers."
Soderbery notes that Veritas won't sell NetApp hardware. Rather, the companies will work together to identify opportunities to deliver "integrated solutions."
The companies say they'll have more announcements related to their new partnership this fall. Until then -- perhaps realizing that there wasn't much meat on the skeleton of this announcement otherwise -- NetApp and Veritas cited examples of how their products work with each other today. These include the ability to use Veritas's NetBackup Storage Migrator or StorageCentral software management tool with NetApp's storage systems.
So what's going to be different after NetApp and Veritas huddle closer together? Executives wouldn't discuss plans for their future combined product offerings, such as whether or not they would be cobranded. But we can almost guarantee they'll be pitched as being more tightly integrated than ever before.
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