DATCHET, England, May 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA)
today announced the latest evolution of the CA ARCserve(R) Family
of Products designed to provide total protection, recovery and
availability for customers' systems, applications and data.
The major new releases of CA ARCserve(R) Backup, CA ARCserve
Replication, CA ARCserve High Availability (formerly CA XOsoft
Replication and High Availability), and an innovative new
disk-to-disk backup and restore product, CA ARCserve D2D, help
organizations control their critical data anywhere, anytime as
business needs change.
Announced today, CA ARCserve r15 builds on the award-winning CA
ARCserve r12.5, which included virtualization enhancements and
built-in data deduplication, with new features like infrastructure
visualization and granular restore of Microsoft(R) Active
Directory(R), to continue to help companies reduce cost and
increase operational efficiency.
This new release also includes the new CA ARCserve D2D product
for near instantaneous recovery and patent-pending I2
Technology(TM) that, like deduplication, drastically reduces
storage space, network traffic and load on production servers.
"Our customers need to leverage new technologies and solutions
to make IT more effective in meeting today's demanding business
requirements," said Adam Famularo,
senior vice president and general manager of CA's Recovery
Management and Data Modeling business unit. "With the CA ARCserve
Family of Products, we continue to deliver enhanced data protection
and availability products to help them achieve these goals."
The r15 products are focused on delivering total protection,
recovery and availability of critical business information by
extending the IT administrator's ability to protect systems,
applications and data regardless of changes in their environment
such as remote office/branch office expansion; policy changes
driven by regulatory compliance; M&A activity and technology
transformation such as deployment and upgrades to new applications
like Microsoft SharePoint(R) or server virtualization and data
migration.
With more than 20 applications and platforms supported, the CA
ARCserve Family of Products is designed to provide a complete
strategy for managing data on everything from a single physical
server to multi-server, hybrid physical and virtual IT
environments.
"Today, IT managers face a multitude of challenges and business
requirements forcing them to adapt their data protection
requirements to adequately safeguard their business-critical data,"
said Robert Amatruda, research
director, data protection and recovery at IDC. "CA's ARCserve r15
release provides IT managers an integrated set of tools allowing
them to support multiple protection and availability use cases,
from legacy to the latest physical and virtualized servers and
operating systems."
The new CA ARCserve solution includes:
CA ARCserve Backup r15
CA ARCserve Backup extends its comprehensive data protection,
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 and ensure the integrity and availability of data.
This high-performance solution now combines innovative disk and
tape backup features-including data deduplication, granular restore
and infrastructure visualization-with state-of-the-art technologies
to support efficient backup, reduce management time, avoid
unplanned downtime and provide fast ROI across Microsoft
Windows(R), UNIX(R), Linux(R) and NetWare(R) in both physical and
virtual environments.
Highlights of the new features and enhancements include:
- Granular Restoration of Microsoft Active Directory to help save time
and maximize flexibility for restores.
- Granular Restoration of SharePoint to help speed recovery of critical
business information within a SharePoint environment.
- Infrastructure Visualization supports efficient administration and
system utilization by providing an easy-to-read network diagram view of
the entire environment and a simple drill down on each component to
check status, backup methodology, and other key information.
- UNIX/Linux Data Movers for SAN-Based Backups helps save time, resources
and costs by providing faster, more efficient backup and restoration of
databases and file systems on UNIX and Linux servers.
- Global Dashboard reduces management complexity, helps avoid unplanned
downtime and helps ensure compliance with corporate policies via
world-wide operational monitoring and SRM reporting across all offices
from a single location.
- Enhanced SRM Reporting provides greater reliability and supports
compliance with new reports that help ease management of the
environment and enable proactive problem avoidance.
- Agent Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 and IBM(R)
Lotus(R) Domino(R) 8.5 Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) to support
seamless backup across a broad range of platforms.
"CA has taken ARCserve Backup to yet another level with this new
release, continuing to add very useful features, while improving
ease-of-use and performance," said Kernel Thomas, manager of
networking services for TheStreet.com. "The improvements in
user-friendliness and automation for daily maintenance tasks, as
well as new alerts and features that help optimize backup
scheduling, reaffirm CA ARCserve as the best way for us to ensure
reliable backup and recovery of files, email and video across our
physical and virtual servers."
CA ARCserve D2D
The new addition to the CA ARCserve Family of Products provides
rapid, simple and reliable protection and recovery for Windows
disk-based servers, supporting multiple Windows platforms and
Microsoft applications. It provides bare metal restoration to
dissimilar hardware, and CA's new, block-level incremental backup
technology to help drastically reduce backup windows, network
traffic, disk storage requirements and the impact of backup and
recovery on the performance of business applications. CA ARCserve
D2D is quick to download and install, and is designed to improve
productivity and collaboration by offering an easy-to-use Web 2.0
interface and browser. It can be used stand-alone, or work with
other CA ARCserve products to manage environments that include tape
or require that data be replicated to remote offices.
Highlights of the new product include:
- Protection for Virtual Servers simplifies operations and saves training
time by providing a single user interface to help protect both virtual
and physical platforms.
- Block-Level Infinite Incremental Backup saves time, storage space and
CPU resources using CA's patent-pending, block-level I2 Technology for
intelligently managed backups.
- Single Snapshot Backup with Four Restore Types saves time and helps
maximize flexibility by rapidly restoring files, volumes, databases, or
the entire system to any server in both physical and virtual
environments in just one pass.
- Bare Metal Recovery to Dissimilar Hardware saves time and improves
reliability by providing a very fast way to recover a crashed server to
hardware that can be the same or different than the original
machine-which can reduce to just minutes a process that can potentially
take as much as 36 hours.
- Application-Consistent Snapshot Backups support rapid and accurate
application recovery by helping to ensure the integrity of backups.
- High-Frequency Backups help ensure strong protection and improved
control over recovery points by leveraging new I2 Technology to
facilitate backups as frequently as every 15 minutes.
- New Web 2.0 Interface with Dynamic Documentation enables faster
learning, easy access to more resources, and a better user experience
for the administrator.
- End-User Search and Restore saves time and resources by finding and
recovering data in files and folders without administrator
intervention.
- Use with CA ARCserve Backup r15 provides the flexibility to store data
on tape for off-site, long-term retention by enabling administrators to
easily migrate CA ARCserve D2D backup files to tape.
- Use with CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r15 provides the
flexibility to provide additional protection and rapid recovery in the
event of a data center outage by replicating ARCserve D2D backups to a
remote site.
- Remote Office / Branch Office Protection helps improve protection and
reliability by enabling CA ARCserve D2D to back up all ROBO office data
to local disk, and then use CA ARCserve Replication to replicate the
backup files to a central location.
- Broad Platforms and Application Support that protects multiple customer
IT environments by supporting Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 on 32 and
64 bit platforms; Microsoft Exchange (2003, 2007, 2010), SQL Server(R)
2005 and 2008 databases; and SharePoint 2007 & 2010. It also supports
VMware(R), Hyper-V(TM) and Citrix(R) XenServer(TM) virtualization
platforms.
"CA ARCserve D2D is an essential piece of software that
completes the data protection solution puzzle," said Yeap Kah Hoe, consultant at Maxmulia Holdings.
"With CA ARCserve D2D, we are now able to offer a simple,
easy-to-use and yet powerful data protection solution for SMB
customers. In addition, large organizations can also use CA
ARCserve D2D to protect their small remote sites, with the added
flexibility to keep the backup data at either the remote locations
or centralized at headquarters."
CA ARCserve Replication r15
CA ARCserve Replication, formerly known as CA XOsoft(TM)
Replication, helps IT ensure continuous data protection, and fast
and easy data migration at the data center and remote offices.
Designed to complement any backup solution, it is quickly and
easily deployed and managed through a unified, web-based console.
It helps integrate application-aware replication and continuous
data protection (CDP) to help ensure the protection and
recoverability of applications, files, emails and databases across
Windows, Linux and UNIX in both physical and virtual
environments.
It also helps customers migrate data from old servers to new
servers, from physical servers to virtual servers, from remote
offices to the data center, and from the data center to any remote
location for disaster recovery. It helps IT ensure replicated data
is available and recoverable when needed. Integrated VSS Snapshot
Management enables application-consistent backups when used with CA
ARCserve Backup, CA ARCserve D2D, or other commercial backup
solutions.
Highlights of the new features include:
- Offline Synchronization reduces network constraints, speeds deployment
and cuts time-to-protection for large data sets and databases by
transferring a VSS snapshot to removable media and restoring to the
replica server for the initial data synchronization.
- Multiple Replication Levels (continuous, periodic, ad-hoc) helps IT
optimize network efficiency by balancing network resource utilization
with the required level of protection-ideal for events such as
periodically replicating data from remote offices to a central data
center or disaster recovery site.
- New Application Support extends flexibility and reliability by adding
support for Exchange 2010 and Dynamics CRM v4, as well as enhancements
for IIS Server.
- NTFS Sparse File Support saves additional time and resources by
enabling replication of compressed/deduplicated files, avoiding
unnecessary replication for lower bandwidth and storage requirements.
- Linux/UNIX Hard Links Support helps further extend time and resource
savings by avoiding unnecessary replication.
CA ARCserve High Availability r15
CA ARCserve High Availability, formerly known as CA XOsoft(TM)
High Availability, helps maximize system, application and data
uptime and availability to meet demanding service level agreements
(SLAs) and disaster recovery strategies. It protects any Windows,
Linux and UNIX file servers, applications or databases, including
Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, IIS, and Dynamics CRM,
as well as Oracle and Blackberry Servers on physical and virtual
servers. It includes all CA ARCserve Replication r15 features, and
adds server and application-level monitoring, automated and
push-button failover, and push-button failback. CA ARCserve Assured
Recovery provides automated non-disruptive recovery testing to help
ensure failover systems will work when needed.
Highlights of the new features include:
- Full System High Availability provides replication and failover of an
entire physical or virtual server in a Windows-based system, including
the operating system, system state, applications and data.
- Server Group Management helps improve application performance after
failover (typically to a remote location) by handling groups of servers
collectively to protect distributed, farm-deployed applications such as
SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, web applications, and document repositories.
- UNIX/Linux High Availability extends High Availability to Windows,
UNIX, and Linux systems, applications and data through a unified
management console.
- New Application Support extends protection and high availability to
Exchange 2010 and Dynamics CRM v4.
"We are delighted with the new features we tested in CA ARCserve
High Availability r15," said Srikanth
Subramanian, systems manager at Sify Technologies Limited.
"Powerful facilities like Offline Synchronization and Full System
High Availability will help customers maintain the integrity and
availability of applications with minimal strain on resources. By
helping us test our DR setup without business disruption, the
automated DR testing feature is also very valuable, while
Continuous Data Protection capabilities establish a highly reliable
DR environment with very, very minimal difference between primary
and secondary data."
The numerous enhancements to the CA ARCserve Family of Products
offer customers tremendous business value in safeguarding their
systems, applications and data stored on diverse physical and
virtual environments, both locally and in remote offices.
For more information on the CA ARCserve family of products visit
http://www.arcserve.com
Additional Supporting Quotes
"It's very refreshing to see a software company like CA put such
effort into truly listening to customers and understanding their
business needs-and this effort is plainly evident in the powerful
products that make up the CA ARCserve r15 Family," said
Bob Venero, president and CEO of
Future Tech Enterprise, a global value-added solutions provider.
"Having taken a close look at this latest impressive release, we're
so convinced that businesses will share our excitement with the
value delivered here that we are giving our qualified customers-new
and existing alike-net 150 day terms on all products included in
the CA ARCserve r15 Family. We're not a company that takes big
risks, but we're willing to bet big on the exceptional value
proposition that CA and the ARCserve r15 release brings to the
table."
"As a new CA reseller partner, we're having a very good
experience working with the company and are drawn to its products,
like CA ARCserve Replication and CA ARCserve D2D, which are
tremendous fits for the needs of our small-company customer base,"
said Chris Porosky, president of Red
Road Networks. "CA ARCserve D2D is a really powerful product on a
lightweight footprint, coupling fast backup and bare metal
restoration capabilities with support for virtualization, which
will help customers get the most of out of IT environments that
sometimes rely on just a single server. We're excited to see CA, a
larger, more established company become more involved in this
market, and were pleasantly surprised to find the CA ARCserve D2D
beta to be more solid than many similar backup products already in
general availability."
"CA ARCserve Backup r15 packs a lot of flexible features and
functionality into a very easy-to-use package," said Sal Rando, lead systems operator for the
Fashion Institute of Technology. "We're
particularly impressed with its recoverability and the granular
restore capabilities for Active Directory, which are huge
considerations as we look to consolidate our point products and
settle on a single backup and recovery solution."
"Customers are increasingly expressing the need for a
lightning-fast backup and recovery tool that is easy to operate,
extremely reliable and technically flexible," said Kai Wittenburg, CEO of neam IT-Services. "CA has
found that sweet spot in the impressive new CA ARCserve D2D, with
an intuitive Web 2.0 user interface that enables administrators to
set up and perform backups in minutes, and quickly recover data in
multiple formats-all with the flexibility to conduct bare metal
restores on hardware that can be very different than the source
system."
"Compared to many other backup products, CA ARCserve D2D is
refreshingly easy to install, configure and use-enabling customers
to set up and begin backup processes in less than an hour and
without tinkering with SCSI controllers or tape drives," said
Zelko Lukacevic, consulting engineer
at Computer Integrations Australia. "Given the increasingly
affordable and readily available external hard drives on the market
today, CA ARCserve D2D presents a very compelling value proposition
to SMEs, empowering them to be more backup-conscious than ever
before."
"A key enabler of remote disaster recovery, the support for
server group failover in CA ARCserve High Availability r15 allows
us to reliably fail over all the servers and applications that
depend on each other as a group to perform critical business
functions," said Jennifer Lim,
product manager, Avnet Partner Solutions Pte Ltd. "What's more, we
can now also include Oracle for UNIX and Linux platforms among our
high availability plans. This additional platform support, combined
with ease of use and implementation, helps ensure that we provide
availability as fast as possible and across the full range of
systems in the business environment."
"After testing the CA ARCserve Backup r15 beta, the new benefits
became obvious, starting with significant improvement in backup
throughput and smaller backup windows," said Darren Ong, system engineer at Maxmulia Holdings
Sdn Bhd. "In addition, while improved management capabilities are
sure to make our lives easier as well, we liked the enhanced
interface and visualization the most, giving us a new level of
control over our backup environment."
"Like many organizations, we rely heavily on email systems to
conduct our day-to-day business, and our users expect nothing less
than 24x7 availability," said David
Jao, director of Corporate Information Technology at Hazen
and Sawyer, P.C. "With support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, CA
ARCserve High Availability r15 delivers automated failover after
unplanned outages that provides the system uptime our users demand,
and without unnecessary complexity."
"Given our finite resources, we're looking to get reliable
backup and restore functionality from a product that is simple to
use and able to handle technical nuances without a fuss," said
Eric Evans, communications
coordinator at Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation. "We are very
impressed by the streamlined interface and Web 2.0 capability of CA
ARCserve D2D, as well as its flexible bare-metal restore
capability, which gets the job done right the first time and
without a lot of configuration complexity or second-guessing."
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