CA Delivers Total Data Protection, Recovery and Availability to Help Customers Manage Changing Business Needs
CA,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the latest evolution of the CA ARCserve®
Family of Products designed to provide total protection, recovery and
availability for customers’ systems, applications and data.
The major new releases of CA
ARCserve® Backup, CA
ARCserve Replication, CA
ARCserve High Availability (formerly CA XOsoft Replication and High
Availability), and an innovative new disk-to-disk backup and restore product, CA
ARCserve D2D, help organizations control their critical data anywhere, anytime
as business needs change.
Announced today, CA ARCserve r15 builds on the award-winning CA ARCserve r12.5,
which included virtualization enhancements and built-in data deduplication,
with new features like infrastructure visualization and granular restore of
Microsoft® Active Directory®, to continue to help
companies reduce cost and increase operational efficiency.
This new release also includes the new CA ARCserve D2D product for near
instantaneous recovery and patent-pending
I2 Technology™ that, like deduplication, drastically
reduces storage space, network traffic and load on production servers.
“Our
customers need to leverage new technologies and solutions to make IT more
effective in meeting today’s demanding business requirements,” said Vicki
Batka, Senior Director of CA’s Recovery Management and Data Modeling business
unit, Asia Pacific. “With the CA ARCserve Family of
Products, we continue to deliver enhanced data protection and availability
products to help them achieve these goals.”
The r15 products are focused on delivering total protection, recovery and
availability of critical business information by extending the IT
administrator’s ability to protect systems, applications and data regardless of
changes in their environment such as remote office/branch office expansion;
policy changes driven by regulatory compliance; M&A activity and technology
transformation such as deployment and upgrades to new applications like
Microsoft SharePoint® or server virtualization and data migration.
With more than 20 applications and platforms supported, the CA ARCserve Family
of Products is designed to provide a complete strategy for managing data on
everything from a single physical server to multi-server, hybrid physical and
virtual IT environments.
“Today, IT managers face a multitude of challenges and business requirements
forcing them to adapt their data protection requirements to adequately
safeguard their business-critical data,” said Robert Amatruda, research
director, data protection and recovery at IDC. “CA’s ARCserve r15 release
provides IT managers an integrated set of tools allowing them to support
multiple protection and availability use cases, from legacy to the latest
physical and virtualized servers and operating systems.”
The new CA ARCserve solution includes:
CA ARCserve Backup r15
CA ARCserve Backup extends its comprehensive data protection, centralized
management and advanced features designed to help IT do more with less at a
lower cost while helping to minimize the risk of data loss and ensure the
integrity and availability of data. This high-performance solution now combines
innovative disk and tape backup features—including data deduplication, granular
restore and infrastructure visualization—with state-of-the-art technologies to
support efficient backup, reduce management time, avoid unplanned downtime and
provide fast ROI across Microsoft Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®
and NetWare® in both physical and virtual environments.
Highlights of the new features and enhancements include:
· Granular
Restoration of MicrosoftActive Directory to help
save time and maximize flexibility for restores.
· Granular
Restoration of SharePoint to help speed recovery of critical
business information within a SharePoint environment.
· Infrastructure
Visualization supports efficient administration and system utilization by
providing an easy-to-read network diagram view of the entire environment and a
simple drill down on each component to check status, backup methodology, and
other key information.
· UNIX/Linux
Data Movers for SAN-Based Backups helps save time, resources and
costs by providing faster, more efficient backup and restoration
of databases and file systems on UNIX and Linux servers.
· Global
Dashboard reduces management complexity, helps avoid unplanned downtime and
helps ensure compliance with corporate policies via world-wide operational
monitoring and SRM reporting across all offices from a single location.
· Enhanced
SRM Reporting provides greater reliability and supports compliance with new
reports that help ease management of the environment and enable proactive
problem avoidance.
· Agent
Support forMicrosoftExchange 2010, SharePoint 2010
and IBM® Lotus® Domino® 8.5 Attachment and Object
Service (DAOS) to support seamless backup across a broad range of platforms.
“After testing the CA ARCserve Backup r15 beta, the new benefits became
obvious, starting with significant improvement in backup throughput and smaller
backup windows,” said Darren Ong, system engineer at Maxmulia Holdings Sdn Bhd.
“In addition, while improved management capabilities are sure to make our lives
easier as well, we liked the enhanced interface and visualization the most,
giving us a new level of control over our backup environment.”
CA ARCserve D2D
The new addition to the CA ARCserve Family of Products provides rapid, simple and reliable protection and recovery for Windows disk-based servers, supporting multiple Windows platforms and Microsoft applications. It provides bare metal restoration to dissimilar hardware, and CA’s new, block-level incremental backup technology to help drastically reduce backup windows, network traffic, disk storage requirements and the impact of backup and recovery on the performance of business applications. CA ARCserve D2D is quick to download and install, and is designed to improve productivity and collaboration by offering an easy-to-use Web 2.0 interface and browser. It can be used stand-alone, or work with other CA ARCserve products to manage environments that include tape or require that data be replicated to remote offices.
"Compared to many other backup products, CA ARCserve D2D is refreshingly easy to install, configure and use—enabling customers to set up and begin backup processes in less than an hour and without tinkering with SCSI controllers or tape drives,” said Zelko Lukacevic, consulting engineer at Computer Integrations Australia. “Given the increasingly affordable and readily available external hard drives on the market today, CA ARCserve D2D presents a very compelling value proposition to SMEs, empowering them to be more backup-conscious than ever before.”
Highlights of the new product include:
· Protection for Virtual Servers simplifies operations and saves training time by providing a single user interface to help protect both virtual and physical platforms.
· Block-Level Infinite Incremental Backup saves time, storage space and CPU resources using CA’s patent-pending, block-level I2 Technology for intelligently managed backups.
· Single Snapshot Backup with Four Restore Types saves time and helps maximize flexibility by rapidly restoring files, volumes, databases, or the entire system to any server in both physical and virtual environments in just one pass.
· Bare Metal Recovery to Dissimilar Hardware saves time and improves reliability by providing a very fast way to recover a crashed server to hardware that can be the same or different than the original machine—which can reduce to just minutes a process that can potentially take as much as 36 hours.
· Application-Consistent Snapshot Backups support rapid and accurate application recovery by helping to ensure the integrity of backups.
· High-Frequency Backups help ensure strong protection and improved control over recovery points by leveraging new I2 Technology to facilitate backups as frequently as every 15 minutes.
· New Web 2.0 Interface with Dynamic Documentation enables faster learning, easy access to more resources, and a better user experience for the administrator.
· End-User Search and Restore saves time and resources by finding and recovering data in files and folders without administrator intervention.
· Use with CA ARCserve Backupr15 provides the flexibility to store data on tape for off-site, long-term retention by enabling administrators to easily migrate CA ARCserve D2D backup files to tape.
· Use with CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r15 provides the flexibility to provide additional protection and rapid recovery in the event of a data center outage by replicating ARCserve D2D backups to a remote site.
· Remote Office / Branch Office Protection helps improve protection and reliability by enabling CA ARCserve D2D to back up all ROBO office data to local disk, and then use CA ARCserve Replication to replicate the backup files to a central location.
· Broad
Platforms and Application Support that protects multiple
customer IT environments by supporting Microsoft Windows
2003 and 2008 on 32 and 64 bit platforms; Microsoft Exchange (2003, 2007,
2010), SQL Server® 2005 and 2008 databases; and SharePoint 2007
& 2010. It also supports VMware®, Hyper-V™ and Citrix®
XenServer™ virtualization platforms.
CA ARCserve Replication r15
CA ARCserve Replication, formerly known as CA XOsoft™ Replication,
helps IT ensure continuous data protection, and fast and easy data migration at
the data center and remote offices. Designed to complement any backup solution,
it is quickly and easily deployed and managed through a unified, web-based
console. It helps integrate application-aware replication and continuous data
protection (CDP) to help ensure the protection and recoverability of
applications, files, emails and databases across Windows, Linux and UNIX in
both physical and virtual environments.
It also helps customers migrate data from old servers to new
servers, from physical servers to virtual servers, from remote offices to the
data center, and from the data center to any remote location for disaster
recovery. It helps IT ensure replicated data is available and recoverable when
needed. Integrated VSS Snapshot Management enables application-consistent backups
when used with CA ARCserve Backup, CA ARCserve D2D, or other commercial backup
solutions.
Highlights of the new features include:
· Offline Synchronization reduces network constraints, speeds deployment and cuts time-to-protection for large data sets and databases by transferring a VSS snapshot to removable media and restoring to the replica server for the initial data synchronization.
· Multiple Replication Levels (continuous, periodic, ad-hoc) helps IT optimize network efficiency by balancing network resource utilization with the required level of protection—ideal for events such as periodically replicating data from remote offices to a central data center or disaster recovery site.
· New Application Support extends flexibility and reliability by adding support for Exchange 2010 and Dynamics CRM v4, as well as enhancements for IIS Server.
· NTFS Sparse File Support saves additional time and resources by enabling replication of compressed/deduplicated files, avoiding unnecessary replication for lower bandwidth and storage requirements.
· Linux/UNIX
Hard Links Support helps further extend time and resource savings by avoiding
unnecessary replication.
CA ARCserve High Availability r15
CA ARCserve High Availability, formerly known as CA XOsoft™ High
Availability, helps maximize system, application and data uptime and
availability to meet demanding service level agreements (SLAs) and disaster
recovery strategies. It protects any Windows, Linux and UNIX file servers,
applications or databases, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server,
SharePoint, IIS, and Dynamics CRM, as well as Oracle and Blackberry Servers on
physical and virtual servers. It includes all CA ARCserve Replication r15 features,
and adds server and application-level monitoring, automated and push-button
failover, and push-button failback. CA ARCserve Assured Recovery provides
automated non-disruptive recovery testing to help ensure failover systems will
work when needed.
Highlights of the new features include:
· Full System High Availability provides replication and failover of an entire physical or virtual server in a Windows-based system, including the operating system, system state, applications and data.
· Server Group Management helps improve application performance after failover (typically to a remote location) by handling groups of servers collectively to protect distributed, farm-deployed applications such as SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, web applications, and document repositories.
· UNIX/Linux High Availability extends High Availability to Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems, applications and data through a unified management console.
· New
Application Support extends protection and high availability to Exchange 2010 and
Dynamics CRM v4.
“We are delighted with the new features we tested in CA ARCserve
High Availability r15,” said Srikanth Subramanian, systems manager at Sify
Technologies Limited. “Powerful facilities like Offline Synchronization and
Full System High Availability will help customers maintain the integrity and
availability of applications with minimal strain on resources. By helping us
test our DR setup without business disruption, the automated DR testing feature
is also very valuable, while Continuous Data Protection capabilities establish
a highly reliable DR environment with very, very minimal difference between
primary and secondary data.”
The numerous enhancements to the CA ARCserve Family of Products
offer customers tremendous business value in safeguarding their systems,
applications and data stored on diverse physical and virtual environments, both
locally and in remote offices.
For more information on the CA ARCserve family of products visit http://ARCserve.com.
Additional Supporting Quotes
“CA ARCserve D2D is an essential piece of software that completes
the data protection solution puzzle,” said Yeap Kah Hoe, consultant at Maxmulia
Holdings. “With CA ARCserve D2D, we are now able to offer a simple, easy-to-use
and yet powerful data protection solution for SMB customers. In addition, large
organizations can also use CA ARCserve D2D to protect their small remote sites,
with the added flexibility to keep the backup data at either the remote
locations or centralized at headquarters.”
“A key enabler of remote disaster recovery, the support for server
group failover in CA ARCserve High Availability r15 allows us to reliably fail
over all the servers and applications that depend on each other as a group to
perform critical business functions,” said Jennifer Lim, product manager, Avnet
Partner Solutions Pte Ltd. “What’s more, we can now also include Oracle for
UNIX and Linux platforms among our high availability plans. This additional
platform support, combined with ease of use and implementation, helps ensure
that we provide availability as fast as possible and across the full range
of systems in the business environment.”
“CA’s new ARCserve D2D includes tremendous features for SMB
customers searching for a fast, user-friendly backup product. Highly
configurable, the tool offers a variety of backup scheduling options, recovery
point selections, compression levels and other settings for maximum flexibility
and alignment with business needs. The intuitive dashboard is also very
valuable, displaying a wealth of key statistical information to boost
administrators’ productivity and efficiency,” said Sushil Taneja, Sr.
Consultant at Trifin Technologies Pvt Ltd.
“The new interface in CA ARCserve Backup r15 makes it even easier
to configure for data mover and deduplication enabled policies. In addition,
the enhanced global dashboard and infrastructure visualization are perfect
tools for enabling enterprise-level customers to quickly view their backup
status and infrastructure topology, ensuring that business-critical systems are
safely protected at all times,” said Zhiqing Shi, Product Manager at Digital
China.
“CA has taken ARCserve Backup to yet another level with this new
release, continuing to add very useful features, while improving ease-of-use
and performance,” said Kernel Thomas, manager of networking services for
TheStreet.com. “The improvements in user-friendliness and automation for daily
maintenance tasks, as well as new alerts and features that help optimize backup
scheduling, reaffirm CA ARCserve as the best way for us to ensure reliable
backup and recovery of files, email and video across our physical and virtual
servers.”
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