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$59 Million Acquisition Propels Veritas Further Into Utility Computing: Page 2 of 4

"That view does comport well with the way senior IT people look at their infrastructure," Freund said. "At the end of the day, you're running applications. The rest of the stuff is solely there to support running applications. I run my business on applications."

Ejasent's UpScale can automatically move an application from one server to another without disrupting the tasks its performing. The software does this by taking a snapshot of the application and then moving it in near real time.

This capability is useful to meet spikes in processing needs, such as heavy usage of a retail site during the holiday season, or to migrate an application to another server to perform hardware maintenance on the original machine.

Veritas will incorporate MicroMeasure into its application service level management product, CommandCentral Service. The Ejasent product makes it possible for corporations to measure the usage of computing resources for billing purposes.

Ejasent's 21 engineers will join Veritas's High Availability/Clustering group.