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VERITAS ANNOUNCES ROAD MAP FOR BARE METAL RESTORE CAPABILITY

VERITAS Software Corporation, a leading storage software company, has announced plans to focus future product development for VERITAS Bare Metal Restore disaster recovery technology on the VERITAS NetBackup data protection environment. VERITAS Software also announced plans to discontinue future sales of a separate product, VERITAS Bare Metal Restore for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, effective June 15, 2003. VERITAS Software will continue to provide technical support for Bare Metal Restore for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (version 3.2.1) through June 15, 2005.

Bare Metal Restore technology helps companies to dramatically reduce the time it takes to restore their information environments after a system failure or on-site disaster by automating the multiple, manual-intensive tasks required to restore a failed system. This capability further extends VERITAS Software's wide selection of data protection software products, which lead the market with over 40 percent share.

"Bare Metal Restore brings advanced disaster recovery capabilities to companies, making it a natural complement to our enterprise backup and recovery solutions," said Mark Bregman, executive vice president, product operations, VERITAS Software. "The development focus on integrating these capabilities more closely with VERITAS Software products such as VERITAS NetBackup will allow companies to more easily adopt disaster recovery solutions into their everyday enterprise environments."

About VERITAS Software

With revenues of $1.5 billion in 2001, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world. VERITAS Software is the world's leading storage software company, providing data protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery software to 86 percent of the Fortune 500. VERITAS Software's corporate headquarters is located at 350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA, 94043, tel: 650-527-8000, fax: 650-527-8050, e-mail: vx-sales@veritas.com, Web site: www.veritas.com.

Contact: Jeremy Roe, Corporate Communications, 650-527-3010, or jeremy.roe@veritas.com.