Storage Foundation 5.0 also now has a wizard that walks users through configuring storage for clusters, high availability, point-in-time copies of data or for setting up and testing servers for disaster recovery.

"If you're setting something up for [something other than Windows, such as] Oracle, BlackBerry or Siebel, or whatever else you're running, we'll walk you through a different process by allowing you to click on buttons or simple pull-down menus and having you choose from options we provide to you," Derrington said.

The software can also clone configurations and apply them to other servers.

Derrington said the centralized management console allows an organization to understand applications, servers and storage resources for thousands of Windows servers. The software is also backward-compatible to Storage Foundation for Windows 4.0.

"It allows them to understand all the resources associated with that host. So whether its data replications with Veritas Volume Replicator ' or my volume is 99 percent full, it's going to show me this in the Web-based GUI," Derrington said.