CA to deliver enterprise risk mitigation and compliance solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

These centralized information, recovery and resource management products will enable customers to optimize data protection, email archiving, compliance and electronic data discovery across large Exchange Server environments within the region.

As corporations seek to reduce risk and fulfil their governance requirements, IT managers need to manage and protect an ever-increasing volume of email messages while ensuring the availability and accessibility of business information contained in their email systems. To address these challenges, CA and Microsoft are both committed to providing customers with best practices management and enhanced protection for their Exchange Server 2007 messaging environments.

Commenting on the alliance Abdul Karim Riyaz, the Dubai based-Regional Presales Director, Storage Management said,

"CA is the market leader in the field of message archiving software which has significantly helped organizations not only achieve risk mitigation and regulatory compliance but also reduced the cost of maintaining and storing data through mailbox management system. Our development teams are closely working with Microsoft to ensure that CA's information and storage management products work in tandem with the newly launched Exchange Server 2007. This will further ensure that our customers have a solution that is easy to deploy, use and administer."

The CA risk mitigation and compliance solutions for Exchange Server 2007 will include:
• CA MDY FileSurf to centrally manage records regardless of location or origin
- CA Message Manager to provide email archiving, electronic data discovery and mailbox management
- CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup and CA XOsoft continuous application availability solutions—which encompass CDP (continuous data protection), replication, automatic failover and disaster recovery testing—to accelerate backup and recovery, ensure availability and minimize loss of critical applications and data
- CA BrightStor Storage Resource Manager for capacity planning, forecasting and optimization of Exchange servers

"Regulatory compliance is one of today's fastest growing corporate concerns," said Bharat Kumar, Business & Marketing Officer at Microsoft Gulf. "CA is delivering solutions that will enhance the built-in functionality in Exchange Server 2007, and help ensure organizations are able to achieve their compliance and governance objectives."