Veritas Software

Veritas Software Corporation was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company specialized in storage management software including the first commercial journaling file system, VxFS, VxVM, VCS, the personal/small office backup software Backup Exec and the popular enterprise backup software NetBackup. Veritas Record Now was the first worldwide popular CD recording software, due to groundbreaking high reliability (a notable achievement at a time when CD writers were a new technology), an easy user interface, and support from hardware manufacturers. Veritas was listed on the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ-100 under the VRTS ticker symbol.