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 mor