CA Delivers Comprehensive Recovery Management to Support Data Storage, Backup and Recovery
27 Avril 2009 - 3:03PM
PR Newswire (US)
New Releases of CA ARCserve Backup and CA XOsoft Leverage
Virtualization, Data Deduplication, Storage Resource Management and
DR Testing to Support Lean IT ISLANDIA, N.Y., April 27
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA) today announced a
major new release of CA Recovery Management designed to help
customers meet data protection, business continuity and disaster
recovery challenges in tough economic times. Virtualization
enhancements, built-in data deduplication and Storage Resource
Management (SRM), and innovative ways to help ensure recoverability
of critical business information head the list of new capabilities
designed to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of data storage,
protection and recovery. This is among 13 new and enhanced products
announced today by CA that help CIOs achieve Lean IT by reducing
waste, increasing productivity and improving the customer
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) The numerous efficiency and cost saving features in the new
release are extended by the CA ARCserve(R) "X-tra Value Pack" that
offers attractive pricing for CA ARCserve Backup Suite bundle,
including two free copies of CA XOsoft(TM) Replication and one year
of maintenance. "Faced with tight budgets and limited staff,
customers need their IT strategy for recovery management to be
smarter and leaner by making better use of the existing hardware
and streamlining backup and recovery practices," said Adam
Famularo, senior vice president and general manager of CA's
Recovery Management and Data Modeling business unit. "Our new
Recovery Management release is loaded with new features that help
meet these challenges." CA Recovery Management includes new
releases of CA ARCserve Backup, CA XOsoft High Availability and CA
XOsoft Replication, business continuity and disaster recovery
software. "IT organizations are looking for optimized and cost
effective ways to maintain and manage copies of data for business
continuity and disaster recovery," said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst
at Enterprise Strategy Group. "CA's new Recovery Management release
provides backup and replication for physical and virtual
environments that meets these needs, incorporating key technologies
like native data deduplication, SRM, and file-level recovery from
image-level backups in server virtualization environments." The new
CA Recovery Management solution includes: CA ARCserve Backup r12.5
CA ARCserve Backup delivers comprehensive data protection with
centralized management and advanced features designed to help IT do
more with less at a lower cost while helping to minimize the risk
of data loss. This high performance solution combines innovative
disk and tape backup with state-of-the-art technologies to support
efficient backup in both physical and virtual environments and
powerful, integrated anti-virus and encryption tools, making it one
of the most secure "out-of-the-box" backup solutions offered today.
Highlights of the new features include: -- Integrated data
deduplication that helps improve the economics of disk-based backup
and helps save money by getting more out of existing hardware --
Deduplication of virtual machine backups in Microsoft(R)
Hyper-V(TM), Citrix(R) XenServer(TM) and VMware environments --
Virtualization support enhancements including a new 1-step granular
file recovery process that helps achieve better asset optimization
and saves time and resources in VMware vSphere(TM) 4 and ESX, as
well as Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 environments -- Certification
of virtual machine backups from Citrix XenServer environments --
Integrated SRM capabilities that help track and report on physical
and virtual storage components to improve IT efficiencies with
better oversight and proactive problem avoidance -- A Business
Intelligence Dashboard that provides a graphical display of
historical and recent activity in the backup infrastructure to help
administrators proactively improve performance and reliability --
Enhanced dashboard reporting including backup status and virtual
machine recovery points in VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix
XenServer environments -- Ability to verify the recoverability of
backed up data (including deduplicated backups) as part of a tested
DR strategy -- Password management capabilities for encryption keys
that boost both testing and speed of data recovery by helping
ensure passwords are not lost and encrypted data can be unlocked --
Integration of Windows(R) authentication into the audit and role
management process, strengthening control and simplifying
administration of user access to backup resources "CA has taken CA
ARCserve Backup to the front of the pack with this new release,"
said Edward A. Eades, senior systems integrator for a midsized
financial institution. "It will help us meet some of our most
daunting challenges with leaps in the power and simplicity of
deployment, configuration, GUI and reporting. SRM capabilities,
support for Microsoft Hyper-V and dedupe are huge ? we expect to
leverage them to improve efficiency and save us a large amount of
money." CA XOsoft High Availability r12.5 and CA XOsoft Replication
r12.5 CA XOsoft Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability
software provide both business continuity and disaster recovery
capabilities through the integration of application-aware
replication, continuous data protection (CDP), manual, scheduled
and automated failover and non-disruptive, automated disaster
recovery testing. These capabilities help ensure the protection and
recoverability of business-critical applications, files, emails and
databases in both physical and virtual environments. CA XOsoft
Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability are robust business
continuity and disaster recovery solutions that integrate
application-aware replication, continuous data protection (CDP),
automated failover and non-disruptive, automated disaster recovery
testing to help ensure the protection and recoverability of
business-critical applications, files, emails and databases servers
in physical and virtual environments. Highlights of the new
features include: -- Virtualization Enhancements including High
Availability for VMware vCenter Server(TM) and single-instance
host-level replication for Microsoft Hyper-V that help extend the
efficiencies of virtual environments -- Certification of virtual
machine replication and failover for Citrix, XenServer and Citrix
Essentials(TM) -- Windows(R) System State Protection and Windows(R)
Registry Synchronization provide operating system protection and
recovery efficiency -- Replication for UNIX and Linux environments,
offering broader protection via a single, comprehensive solution
for heterogeneous environments. -- Replication and High
Availability for Microsoft Office SharePoint(R) 2007 -- High
Availability for the CA XOsoft Control Services to help ensure CA
XOsoft system manageability -- Automated DR Testing is now included
with both CA XOsoft products, at no additional cost, providing the
critical ability to proactively verify the availability of the
failover system with no impact to the production environment --
64-bit native engine for x86 to x64 replication and migration --
Localization and translation into French, German, Italian, Spanish,
Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (simplified and traditional) and
Japanese for world-wide use. "We already rely on CA XOsoft
Replication to provide business continuity during unplanned outages
? it has performed flawlessly when battletested," said Joe Whipple,
network administrator for KEMBA Financial Credit Union. "By
eliminating a single point of failure and providing better
bandwidth and process utilization, the new release is even more
dependable and should save us money in hardware upgrade costs
through more efficient use of both our physical and virtual
servers." The numerous enhancements to CA Recovery Management offer
customers tremendous business value in safeguarding data stored on
diverse physical and virtual environments, both locally and in
remote offices. "In challenging economic times, IT needs to meet
recovery management objectives in a cost-effective and efficient
manner," said, Greg Kirchoff, director, Global Partner Team at
Microsoft Corp. "CA continues to innovate and deliver solutions
that provide value and fulfill these evolving requirements across
key Microsoft physical and virtual environments, including Windows
Server(R) 2008 with Hyper-V technology and Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007." On April 29, CA will be hosting a Recovery
Management Virtual Showcase that will provide information about the
new versions of CA ARCserve Backup and CA XOsoft products, CA's
SaaS Recovery Management solution and their importance in the
market. The event will include leading storage industry expert
presentations on topics including data deduplication, server
virtualization and disaster recovery. For more information
including a full agenda and showcase registration, visit CA's
Virtual Showcase Homepage. For more information on CA Recovery
Management, please visit arcserve.com. Supporting Quotes "CA
provides one-step granular file recovery from image-level virtual
machine backups in the new release of CA ARCserve Backup. This
delivers the kind of backup/recovery speed and efficiency that
storage administrators require in virtualized environments," said
Parag Patel, vice president, Alliances, VMware. "With the new CA
Recovery Management release, CA continues to provide enhanced
support for VMware vSphere 4 and VMware vCenter Server, helping our
joint customers protect their data while achieving operational and
cost efficiencies." "The explosive growth in virtualization
technology is changing the game for companies from SMB to the
enterprise, creating demand for comprehensive solutions that manage
a complex, heterogeneous physical and virtual IT infrastructure,"
said N. Louis Shipley, group vice president and general manager,
XenServer Products Group, Citrix Systems. "With the combination of
CA Recovery Management, Citrix XenServer and Citrix Essentials for
Hyper-V and XenServer, customers now have a choice of world class
vendors and cost effective solutions to meet their backup/recovery
and high availability requirements across a broad spectrum of
environments." "The design team at CA did a great job with ARCserve
r12.5. The GUI, reporting and Dashboard are great ? all provide
more granular information and are easy to work with, flexible and
intuitive," said Jason Palm, network administrator for Clermont
Senior Services. "I'm particularly interested in the Data
Deduplication where we expect significant space saving on media. I
am also glad to see the virtualization support as we are starting
to use Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX and expect to do more going
forward." "CA really delivered with the new release of ARCserve,"
said Tom Hannum, president of Hannum Computer Services. "Among many
useful new features, I was very impressed with the enhancements to
the GUI and can get significant benefit from the data deduplication
? I anticipate cutting my media costs in half and significantly
shortening my backup window." "The new Recovery Management releases
are further proof that CA is serious about delivering what we need
to meet our customers' needs," said Todd O'Bert, president for
Productive Corporation, a Minneapolis-based specialized reseller.
"The new features in 12.5 reflect key IT requirements to do more
with less and increase efficiencies." O'Bert also commented, "The
ARCserve Backup Wakeup Call program shows that CA is putting their
money where their mouth is by delivering exceptional value to our
customers while helping to make our business more profitable." "CA
is doing all the right things from a product and program
perspective to make it attractive for us to do business with them,"
said Jodi Honore, vice president, Vendor Management for Ingram
Micro. "They are delivering regular, value-added enhancements to
both ARCserve and XOsoft, incorporating new technologies that
accelerate business value like data deduplication and
virtualization support, and offering pricing and long-term
incentives to drive our mutual success." "We've already benefited
from the ARCserve Backup Wakeup Call program and expect even more
success with the availability of the new versions of CA ARCserve
Backup and CA XOsoft," said Kerry Parker, vice president, Corporate
and Public Sector Sales for Softmart, a leading IT solutions
provider. "New built-in capabilities like data deduplication, SRM
and virtualization enhancements are key to adding value for our
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