CA teams up with StorageTek to offer complete solution at Storage World Middle East

The solution brings together CA's latest release of BrighStor ARCserve Backup r11.1 with StorageTek's L20-20 Tape Library, and is available as a complete solution for a limited time until 30 June 2005.

CA and StorageTek partner CSI are launching the solution at Storage World Middle East, being held in Dubai at Al Bustan Rotana Hotel on 30 & 31 May 2005. Information on the CA and StorageTek bundle will be available at Storage World on both the CA stand (stand 21) and the StorageTek stand (stand 4).

"CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup solution is the answer to the needs of small to medium businesses (SMB) in the Arab world, offering a reliable, easy to use and cost effective solution to any organization's data back up and recovery requirements, "said Ned Jaroudi, CA's regional marketing director. "Teaming up with StorageTek's partner, CSI, means that we can offer a complete software/hardware solution that is second to none. We are happy to be launching this during Storage World Middle East."

CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup software helps small and medium business to easily backup/restore and safely manage their data. CA's BrightStor ARCserve offers powerful protection for Exchange servers, Internet orders, inventory, accounting, word documents, digital images and CRM systems. Offering world-class data protection, BrightStor ARCserve Backup is easy to deploy and use, scales to support growing business needs and comes with intuitive interface administration that saves companies time and money.

"As the leading open-systems storage solutions and consultancy, CSI is pleased to be working with two global storage leaders to offer this complete solution to regional SMBs," said Tim Carlson, managing director at CSI. "CSI is committed to delivering innovation by bringing world-class storage solution providers together under one umbrella."

StorageTek leads the tape automation field with the fastest, highest-quality, most space-efficient tape libraries available. The StorageTek L20-20 tape library is ideal for the region's enterprises and designed to provide ultra-reliable backup and recovery in distributed Windows, Novell, Linux and UNIX environments. The L20-20 library lets companies store more data in less physical rack space, saving both space and money.

David Beck, regional manager at StorageTek Middle East & Africa, said "As one of the leaders in storage hardware technology, we are working collaboratively with one of the largest storage software providers to offer an integrated storage bundle that helps Middle East business better manage and protect data through consolidated storage solutions. Matching the best of breed solutions from both CA and StorageTek can only mean better value for Middle East businesses."