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PowerQuest was a software company that produced utility software. It was acquired by Symantec in 2003. [ 1 ] PowerQuest's market focus was on management of computer data storage , especially file systems and disk partitions .
The first version of PartitionMagic was released with DOS and OS/2 support. Versions 2–3 were offered with DOS, OS/2 and Windows support. Symantec's PartitionMagic version 8 dropped the OS/2 version. Server versions were also offered under the name Server Magic for Windows and Novell NetWare servers.
Drive Image version 7 was the last version published under the PowerQuest corporate brand. It was also the first version to include a native Windows interface for cloning an active system partition ; prior versions required a reboot into a DOS -like environment in order to clone the active partition. [ 2 ]
Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF [1]), previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, is a computer software product made by Veritas Software that combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) to provide online-storage management.
Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) was a flexible, integrated volume management software used to manage storage systems under Linux. Its features include: Handle EVMS, Linux LVM and LVM2 volumes; Handle many kinds of disk partitioning schemes; Handle many different file systems (Ext2, Ext3, FAT, JFS, NTFS, OCFS2, OpenGFS, ReiserFS, Swap ...
A hybrid volume is any volume that intentionally and opaquely makes use of two separate physical volumes. For instance, a workload may consist of random seeks so an SSD may be used to permanently store frequently used or recently written data, while using higher-capacity rotational magnetic media for long-term storage of rarely needed data.
The device mapper is a framework provided by the Linux kernel for mapping physical block devices onto higher-level virtual block devices.It forms the foundation of the logical volume manager (LVM), software RAIDs and dm-crypt disk encryption, and offers additional features such as file system snapshots.
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., was a company that provided hardware, software, and services designed for cybersecurity and network management. In 2016 it was acquired by and folded into Symantec and in 2019 as part of Symantec’s Enterprise Security business it was sold to Broadcom.