Veritas To Buy App-Management VendorVeritas To Buy App-Management Vendor

Businesses are looking for technology to help them operate more efficiently. Veritas Software Corp. on Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire an application-management software vendor that, in conjunction with its own storage-management software, will help customers improve the efficiency of their entire business-technology infrastructure.

Veritas says it will spend $59 million to buy Ejasent Inc.; the deal should be completed by the end of the month. Rajeev Bharadhwaj, Ejasent's co-founder and chief technology officer, and other members of his technical team will join Veritas. Included in the deal are Ejasent's main products: UpScale, which lets customers move applications from one server to another without disruption, and MicroMeasure, which lets companies charge departments and users for the specific technology services and resources they use by monitoring and measuring the usage of apps, servers, and storage systems.

Veritas plans to market UpScale and MicroMeasure as standalone products. It also plans to integrate the products into its own line of management products over the next year.

The key feature of Ejasent's software will probably end up incorporated into the Veritas Command Central management console next year, says one analyst. "Currently, it's very complicated for customers to migrate an app to fix a bug," says Steve Kenniston, an analyst at Enterprise Storage Group. "Ejasent in Command Control would make such migration trackable and easier, helping with change-control processes."