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Symantec acquires datacenter management software

Symantec buys Relicore for its Clarity management tool

By Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service
February 08, 2006
 

Symantec Tuesday announced plans to acquire Relicore, a provider of datacenter management software, as part of a bid to round out its offerings for datacenter customers.

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The acquisition is expected to be completed during the middle of this month. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Symantec is buying Relicore to get its hands on Relicore Clarity, a management tool that offers the ability to discover and track changes to application and server components in a datacenter. This eliminates the need to track changes manually and can speed up troubleshooting efforts in the event that an upgrade causes a problem, Symantec said.

The software can also help to ensure that policies required by regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, are enforced with related systems, the company said

Relicore Clarity will be available as a standalone product through Symantec's sales channel from March 1, assuming the acquisition is completed as planned, the company said.





 

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