ISLANDIA, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(NASDAQ: CA) today announced CA ARCserve® r16, a comprehensive
hybrid data protection solution that enables customers and service
providers to rigorously safeguard the availability of critical
data, applications and services across their increasingly diverse
mix of virtual, conventional, and cloud resources.
CA ARCserve r16 unifies data management functions through a
scalable, modular architecture that also facilitates integration
with third-party software such as remote monitoring tools,
management platforms, and solutions from service providers, like
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, N-able and LabTech.
CA ARCserve r16 further simplifies management of heterogeneous
IT environments by allowing customers to purchase multiple data
protection functionalities with a single license based on the total
amount of data they need to protect. This licensing model
also makes it easy for service providers to price and package
complete data protection and management solutions to their
customers. CA ARCserve r16 is also available through
traditional licensing models.
"Today's IT organizations are spending inordinate time and money
to protect critical services—often relying on a mix of 'point'
backup solutions for conventional servers, virtual infrastructure
and cloud resources that leave them exposed to the risk of a highly
damaging outage," said Mike Crest, general manager of Data
Management at CA Technologies. "CA ARCserve r16 addresses
this problem by dramatically reducing the cost and effort required
to implement data protection across diverse IT environments."
Comprehensive Protection for Virtualized
Infrastructure
A new offering, CA ARCserve r16 Central Host-Based VM Backup,
empowers organizations to protect their virtual infrastructure with
image-based host-level protection for VMware vSphere™, as well as
full system replication and high availability supporting Microsoft®
Hyper-V™, VMware vSphere and Citrix® XenServer®. By providing
both full bare-metal recovery and full system failover of complete
VMs, it enables organizations to meet their increasingly stringent
restore SLAs. Recovery of individual applications and
granular recovery of targeted files and folders can be accomplished
within minutes.
"Downtime is not an option in today's highly competitive world,
where businesses must be more agile than ever despite finite
resources," said Eric Rockwell,
president of centrexIT, a San
Diego-based provider of technology management services.
"We're migrating our customers from Symantec to CA ARCserve
for a variety of reasons—including its overhead-slashing infinite
incrementals functionality, its ready-to-go virtualization support,
its reliability and its unbeatable replication capabilities."
With the new CA ARCserve r16 Central Virtual Standby, customers
can schedule the automatic conversion of image-based recovery
points to VMware Virtual Disk or Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk
formats. By making these backup images available as standby
virtual machines, customers can further speed the recovery of data
and services.
"Since implementing CA ARCserve as the primary disaster recovery
solution to help ensure the availability of key business systems in
our highly virtualized environment, we've reduced our recovery time
from more than three days to less than four hours," said
Prashanth Thirumlai, IT
infrastructure manager at The Haskell Company, a $500 million integrated design-build firm based
in Jacksonville, Florida. "We find
the flexibility, intuitiveness, the centralized architecture, and
rich reporting of CA ARCserve r16 to be especially valuable as the
sophistication and complexity of our environment continues to
evolve."
Powerful Support for the Cloud
CA ARCserve r16 introduces a common cloud connection layer
across all data protection components— including traditional file
backup, disk imaging, replication and high availability. This
provides integrated access to hybrid cloud storage, enabling
customers to more readily take advantage of public and private
cloud services such as Amazon Web Services®, Microsoft Windows
Azure™ and Eucalyptus, for purposes such as remote, off-site data
protection, archiving and failover.
CA ARCserve r16 also allows customers to use Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2)™ as their disaster recovery infrastructure
helping to ensuring they can be up and running quickly in the event
of a problem with their on-premises infrastructure. This cold
standby technology can eliminate the significant costs associated
with the purchase of redundant hardware and cloud computing charges
as part of a business continuity plan.
CA ARCserve r16 also enables service providers and their
customers to protect systems and data both locally (for fast,
simple end-user or administrator recovery), and in the cloud (to
protect critical data files offsite for disaster recovery).
"The banks that rely on our data protection services are subject
to strict regulatory scrutiny," said Terry
Oehring, founder and CEO of Solis Security, an MSP
specializing in providing information security for financial
institutions. "By leveraging CA ARCserve, we can reliably and
cost-effectively enable our customers to meet this key challenge by
accurately targeting the data that they need to protect and
securely replicating it offsite in the cloud."
Additional Enhancements across Entire Solution Set
All major components of CA ARCserve r16—including ARCserve
Backup, ARCserve D2D and ARCserve Replication and High
Availability—have been updated with significant enhancements,
including new AES encryption to secure data in transfer and at
rest, as well as tighter integration between traditional and
image-based backup.
In addition, CA ARCserve continues to offer integrated backup to
disk, tape or cloud, storage resource management, infrastructure
visualization and data deduplication.
Additional Supporting Quotes
"Our research shows almost half of storage professionals are
using server virtualization as an opportunity to transform server
backup." said Marco Coulter,
research director at TheInfoPro (a division of The 451 Group), "The
hypervisor-aware technology in CA ARCserve r16 avoids expensive
array replication and simplifies the P2V transition by centralizing
control of replication and backup in one management interface."
"The relentless demands of day-to-day IT housekeeping tasks like
data management and protection can seriously hamper the ability of
IT organizations like ours to innovate," said Zachary Slavin, IT director at Sobel Affiliates,
a brokerage firm within Brown & Brown, the seventh largest
independent insurance intermediary organization in the world. "With
the release of CA ARCserve r16, CA Technologies is once again
proving that they clearly understand the nature of these enterprise
housekeeping tasks—and that they know how to translate that
understanding into effective, easy-to-use solutions that make those
tasks far less burdensome."
"The best-of-both-worlds hybrid data protection enabled by CA
ARCserve lets us give our customers complete confidence that we can
restore their business systems in any type of a recovery scenario,"
said Jason Rorie, president of
Elevated Technologies, a Houston-based provider of managed and cloud
services. "Unlike other solutions that are highly proprietary
and difficult to manage, CA ARCserve's flexible virtual server
replication functionality and web-based interface facilitate the
delivery of all kinds of managed disaster recovery capabilities and
high availability services."
"We've built an exceptionally easy-to-deploy data protection
offering around the disk-based backup and offsite replication
capabilities in CA ARCserve," said Eric
Fox, director of IT Services at Fluid Networks, a systems
integrator and service provider specializing in voice, video and
data networks. "The granular recovery and centralized management
capabilities in CA ARCserve r16 are especially compelling for both
us and our value-conscious customers."
"The increasing demand and market awareness around cloud
computing, virtualization and other advanced IT solutions generates
new and incremental business opportunities for our channel
partners, but also introduces more complexity around how to market,
sell and support these advanced solutions," said William Brandel, senior director, Ingram Micro
Advanced Computing Division, U.S. "The new, simplified licensing
model and flexible, unified architecture introduced in the CA
ARCserve r16 solution will make it easier for channel partners to
successfully sell data protection services as a stand-alone managed
IT service or an integrated solution that operates seamlessly in
the cloud, on-premise or in a hybrid environment. As one of CA
Technologies go-to-market partners, we're well positioned to help
our mutual channel partners maximize their sales potential around
the ARCserve r16 solution and drive greater recurring
revenues."
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