SINGAPORE, 30 APRIL 2009 -- IT management software company CA has announced 13 new and enhanced products to help chief information officers (CIOs) achieve ‘lean’ IT by reducing waste and increasing productivity.
At the forefront is CA Recovery Management, which, the company says, is designed to help customers meet data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery challenges in tough economic times.
“IT organisations are looking for optimised and cost-effective ways to maintain and manage copies of data for business continuity and disaster recovery,” said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “CA’s new Recovery Management release provides backup and replication for physical and virtual environments that meets these needs, incorporating key technologies such as native data deduplication, SRM, and file-level recovery from image-level backups in server virtualisation environments.”
Recovering critical information
CA says the new products include virtualisation enhancements, built-in data deduplication and storage resource management. They provide innovative ways to help recover critical business information while improving efficiency and reducing the cost of data storage, protection and recovery.
CA Recovery Management includes new releases of CA ARCserve Backup, CA XOsoft High Availability and CA XOsoft Replication, business continuity and disaster recovery software.
What CA calls ‘a major release’ includes the CA ARCserve “X-tra Value Pack” that offers attractive pricing for CA ARCserve Backup Suite bundle.
“Faced with tight budgets and limited staff, customers need their IT strategy for recovery management to be smarter and leaner by making better use of the existing hardware and streamlining backup and recovery practices,” said Adam Famularo, senior vice president and general manager of CA’s recovery management and data modelling business unit. “Our new Recovery Management release is loaded with new features that help meet these challenges.”
Many product enhancements
CA says the numerous enhancements to CA Recovery Management offer customers tremendous business value in safeguarding data stored on diverse physical and virtual environments, both locally and in remote offices.
“In challenging economic times, IT needs to meet recovery management objectives in a cost-effective and efficient manner,” said Greg Kirchoff, director, global partner team at Microsoft. “CA continues to innovate and deliver solutions that provide value and fulfill these evolving requirements across key Microsoft physical and virtual environments, including Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.”
XenServer Products Group vice president and general manager, N. Louis Shipley, said the explosive growth in virtualisation technology was changing the game for companies from SMB to the enterprise, creating demand for comprehensive solutions that manage a complex, heterogeneous physical and virtual IT infrastructure.
“With the combination of CA Recovery Management, Citrix XenServer and Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V and XenServer, customers now have a choice of world-class vendors and cost-effective solutions to meet their backup/recovery and high availability requirements across a broad spectrum of environments,” said Shipley.
CA products designed for safeguarding data stored on diverse physical and virtual environments.
By Ross O. Storey
30 Apr 2009
30 Apr 2009
