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"This is the most significant set of new product offerings yet by CA's Mid-Market and Storage business unit", said Gilbert Lacroix, senior vice president of EMEA channels at CA. "Our customers require recovery management solutions that solve their most pressing problems and are easy to deploy, use and maintain - we are enabling our channel partners to address these needs head on."
CA's approach to meeting customers' recovery management requirements has received acclaim from storage industry analysts.
"IT organizations are adopting multi-layered data protection strategies to ensure non-stop business operations," said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "CA Recovery Management provides comprehensive technology that meets mid-market companies' data protection and recovery requirements and has many new features and enhancements to CA ARCserve Backup and CA XOsoft replication and high availability products that offer significant business value."
The new CA Recovery Management solution includes:
CA ARCserve Backup r12
CA ARCserve Backup delivers comprehensive data protection with centralized management and advanced features designed to address changing business needs. This high performance solution combines innovative disk and tape backup with 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 release include:
New Centralized Management capabilities
Improved encryption capabilities
Enhanced VMware integration
Advanced reporting
Extended Virtual Tape Library and disk management capabilities
New ARCserve catalog database that takes full advantage of Microsoft SQL Server
Broader platform, media and application support
Enhanced integration with CA XOsoft products
CA XOsoft High Availability r12 and CA XOsoft Replication r12
CA XOsoft Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability are robust business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that integrate replication, continuous data protection (CDP), automated failover and automated disaster recovery testing to help ensure the protection and recoverability of business-critical applications.
Highlights of the new release include:
Centralized Management
New CDP repository
Enhanced DR testing
Enhanced VSS snapshot management
New Assessment Mode to simplify bandwidth capacity planning
New synchronization design to improve data protection, reduce planned downtime and simplify maintenance
Zero Reboot Upgrades are added to Zero Reboot Implementation
Scalability and performance enhancements allow administrators to efficiently handle larger file systems and the most demanding 64-bit applications
"Our merchandising solutions are critical to our clients' day-to-day operations and profitability," stated Mounir Rahmeh, Managing Director of Soft Solutions, Lebanon . "To minimize disruption, we need to ensure that any issues are dealt with quickly and that our support services are continuously available. CA's Recovery Management solution has provided us with the peace of mind that our applications can be recovered quickly and comprehensively, enabling our clients to keep pace with the dynamic regional and global retail sectors."
The numerous enhancements to CA Recovery Management offer customers tremendous business value in safeguarding data stored on diverse Microsoft platforms, both locally and in remote offices.
Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News Editor
