Veritas Software Corp. was 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 sof...
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Veritas Software Corp. was 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 was listed on the S&P; 500 and the NASDAQ-100 under the VRTS ticker symbol.
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.
Tolerant initially based their shoe-box system on the 32016 microprocessor from National Semiconductor, and then upgraded the systems to the 32032 when those processors, with a 32-bit data bus, became available. The shoe box consisted of a OS processor, running a...
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