Symantec executives and customers extolled the virtue of "standards" on May 9 at the Symantec Vision conference, as the company introduced its bid to provide that standard, a soup-to-nuts integrated process solution for the data center. Dubbed <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1959853,00.asp">the Data Center Foundation,</A> the package includes four families of products: Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Server Foundation and Veritas i3 application performance management tools. These products span backup and remote replication of data, storage management, server provisioning and management functions, and application performance tuning and analysis.