VERITAS Software, one of the world's top 10 largest software companies, is a leading provider of software to enable utility co mputing. In a utility computing model, IT resources are aligned with business needs, and business applications are delivered with op timal performance and availability on top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing hardware and labor costs. VERITAS delivers products for data protection, storage & server management, high availability and application performance management that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. According to Gartner's 2003 industry report, VERITAS Software ranked No. 1 in the non-array-based storage software market.