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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS), the storage software company, today announced that it has been chosen to provide Microsoft TerraServer, the largest online atlas of high-resolution satellite imagery and aerial photography, with VERITAS' industry-leading data protection solution. VERITAS NetBackup(TM) DataCenter technology augments the availability, performance and manageability of Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. The win underscores VERITAS Software's leading role in the Windows 2000 backup environment, which culminated in a strategic marketing initiative -- also announced today -- through which VERITAS and Microsoft will work together to extend the range of manageability and availability solutions for SQL Server. Microsoft TerraServer is one of the world's largest online databases, providing free* public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States. TerraServer data is stored in a 3 terabyte (TB) database running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition -- Microsoft's relational database management and analysis system -- and operated by Microsoft as a research project designed to demonstrate the scalability of SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. VERITAS's high- performance network storage management application replaces software from a competing independent software vendor, which had previously backed up the environment running on Windows NT. "VERITAS' high-performance network storage management application gives TerraServer the resources to deliver comprehensive data protection for TerraServer's SQL Server 2000-based database," said John Maxwell, vice president of product marketing at VERITAS. "TerraServer was designed to be among the world's largest SQL Server implementations and VERITAS is proud to be the chosen solution for ensuring it is always online and up to date, even as the database continues to grow." The myriad images continuously available through TerraServer, and Microsoft's ability to showcase the collection as a demonstration of the scalability of SQL Server, rely on flawless data availability. VERITAS NetBackup(TM) enables administrators to perform all aspects of media management, including library sharing and individual tape drive sharing. With VERITAS NetBackup, any organization can centrally manage all aspects of backup and recovery for SQL Server databases from intuitive, graphical user interfaces, allowing consistent backup policies to be set across the enterprise. VERITAS NetBackup for SQL Server provides TerraServer with scalability features that include tape striping and a special shared memory technique that dramatically accelerates backup performance. "The backup and reliability capabilities for TerraServer's imagery and maps are essential for our operation," said Tom Barclay, group program manager for TerraServer, Microsoft Corp. "We rely on VERITAS NetBackup because it increases system availability while simplifying the complexity of database backup." For more information visit www.veritas.com