CA Delivers Total Data Protection, Recovery and Availability to Help Customers Manage Changing Business Needs
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Posted on May 5, 2010 at 11:42:01 AM
CA Delivers Total Data Protection, Recovery and Availability to Help Customers Manage Changing Business Needs
DATCHET, England, May 5, 2010--
- New Releases of CA ARCserve Family of Products and New Disk-to-Disk
Backup and Restore Solution
- Offer a Comprehensive Recovery Management Strategy Across Physical and
Virtual Environments
CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the latest evolution of the CA
ARCserve(R) Family of Products designed to provide total protection, recovery
and availability for customers' systems, applications and data.
The major new releases of CA ARCserve(R) 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(R) Active Directory(R), 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(TM) 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 Adam
Famularo, senior vice president and general manager of CA's Recovery
Management and Data Modeling business unit. "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(R) 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(R), UNIX(R), Linux(R) and NetWare(R) in both physical and virtual
environments.
Highlights of the new features and enhancements include:
- Granular Restoration of Microsoft Active 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 for Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 and IBM(R)
Lotus(R) Domino(R) 8.5 Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) to support
seamless backup across a broad range of platforms.
"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."
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.
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 Backup r15 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(R)
2005 and 2008 databases; and SharePoint 2007 & 2010. It also supports
VMware(R), Hyper-V(TM) and Citrix(R) XenServer(TM) virtualization
platforms.
"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."
CA ARCserve Replication r15
CA ARCserve Replication, formerly known as CA XOsoft(TM) 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(TM) 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://www.arcserve.com
Additional Supporting Quotes
"It's very refreshing to see a software company like CA put such effort
into truly listening to customers and understanding their business needs-and
this effort is plainly evident in the powerful products that make up the CA
ARCserve r15 Family," said Bob Venero, president and CEO of Future Tech
Enterprise, a global value-added solutions provider. "Having taken a close
look at this latest impressive release, we're so convinced that businesses
will share our excitement with the value delivered here that we are giving
our qualified customers-new and existing alike-net 150 day terms on all
products included in the CA ARCserve r15 Family. We're not a company that
takes big risks, but we're willing to bet big on the exceptional value
proposition that CA and the ARCserve r15 release brings to the table."
"As a new CA reseller partner, we're having a very good experience
working with the company and are drawn to its products, like CA ARCserve
Replication and CA ARCserve D2D, which are tremendous fits for the needs of
our small-company customer base," said Chris Porosky, president of Red Road
Networks. "CA ARCserve D2D is a really powerful product on a lightweight
footprint, coupling fast backup and bare metal restoration capabilities with
support for virtualization, which will help customers get the most of out of
IT environments that sometimes rely on just a single server. We're excited to
see CA, a larger, more established company become more involved in this
market, and were pleasantly surprised to find the CA ARCserve D2D beta to be
more solid than many similar backup products already in general
availability."
"CA ARCserve Backup r15 packs a lot of flexible features and
functionality into a very easy-to-use package," said Sal Rando, lead systems
operator for the Fashion Institute of Technology. "We're particularly
impressed with its recoverability and the granular restore capabilities for
Active Directory, which are huge considerations as we look to consolidate our
point products and settle on a single backup and recovery solution."
"Customers are increasingly expressing the need for a lightning-fast
backup and recovery tool that is easy to operate, extremely reliable and
technically flexible," said Kai Wittenburg, CEO of neam IT-Services. "CA has
found that sweet spot in the impressive new CA ARCserve D2D, with an
intuitive Web 2.0 user interface that enables administrators to set up and
perform backups in minutes, and quickly recover data in multiple formats-all
with the flexibility to conduct bare metal restores on hardware that can be
very different than the source system."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Like many organizations, we rely heavily on email systems to conduct our
day-to-day business, and our users expect nothing less than 24x7
availability," said David Jao, director of Corporate Information Technology
at Hazen and Sawyer, P.C. "With support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, CA
ARCserve High Availability r15 delivers automated failover after unplanned
outages that provides the system uptime our users demand, and without
unnecessary complexity."
"Given our finite resources, we're looking to get reliable backup and
restore functionality from a product that is simple to use and able to handle
technical nuances without a fuss," said Eric Evans, communications
coordinator at Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation. "We are very impressed by the
streamlined interface and Web 2.0 capability of CA ARCserve D2D, as well as
its flexible bare-metal restore capability, which gets the job done right the
first time and without a lot of configuration complexity or second-guessing."
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DATCHET, England, May 5, 2010--
- New Releases of CA ARCserve Family of Products and New Disk-to-Disk
Backup and Restore Solution
- Offer a Comprehensive Recovery Management Strategy Across Physical and
Virtual Environments
CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the latest evolution of the CA
ARCserve(R) Family of Products designed to provide total protection, recovery
and availability for customers' systems, applications and data.
The major new releases of CA ARCserve(R) 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(R) Active Directory(R), 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(TM) 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 Adam
Famularo, senior vice president and general manager of CA's Recovery
Management and Data Modeling business unit. "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(R) 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(R), UNIX(R), Linux(R) and NetWare(R) in both physical and virtual
environments.
Highlights of the new features and enhancements include:
- Granular Restoration of Microsoft Active 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 for Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 and IBM(R)
Lotus(R) Domino(R) 8.5 Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) to support
seamless backup across a broad range of platforms.
"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."
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.
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 Backup r15 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(R)
2005 and 2008 databases; and SharePoint 2007 & 2010. It also supports
VMware(R), Hyper-V(TM) and Citrix(R) XenServer(TM) virtualization
platforms.
"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."
CA ARCserve Replication r15
CA ARCserve Replication, formerly known as CA XOsoft(TM) 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(TM) 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://www.arcserve.com
Additional Supporting Quotes
"It's very refreshing to see a software company like CA put such effort
into truly listening to customers and understanding their business needs-and
this effort is plainly evident in the powerful products that make up the CA
ARCserve r15 Family," said Bob Venero, president and CEO of Future Tech
Enterprise, a global value-added solutions provider. "Having taken a close
look at this latest impressive release, we're so convinced that businesses
will share our excitement with the value delivered here that we are giving
our qualified customers-new and existing alike-net 150 day terms on all
products included in the CA ARCserve r15 Family. We're not a company that
takes big risks, but we're willing to bet big on the exceptional value
proposition that CA and the ARCserve r15 release brings to the table."
"As a new CA reseller partner, we're having a very good experience
working with the company and are drawn to its products, like CA ARCserve
Replication and CA ARCserve D2D, which are tremendous fits for the needs of
our small-company customer base," said Chris Porosky, president of Red Road
Networks. "CA ARCserve D2D is a really powerful product on a lightweight
footprint, coupling fast backup and bare metal restoration capabilities with
support for virtualization, which will help customers get the most of out of
IT environments that sometimes rely on just a single server. We're excited to
see CA, a larger, more established company become more involved in this
market, and were pleasantly surprised to find the CA ARCserve D2D beta to be
more solid than many similar backup products already in general
availability."
"CA ARCserve Backup r15 packs a lot of flexible features and
functionality into a very easy-to-use package," said Sal Rando, lead systems
operator for the Fashion Institute of Technology. "We're particularly
impressed with its recoverability and the granular restore capabilities for
Active Directory, which are huge considerations as we look to consolidate our
point products and settle on a single backup and recovery solution."
"Customers are increasingly expressing the need for a lightning-fast
backup and recovery tool that is easy to operate, extremely reliable and
technically flexible," said Kai Wittenburg, CEO of neam IT-Services. "CA has
found that sweet spot in the impressive new CA ARCserve D2D, with an
intuitive Web 2.0 user interface that enables administrators to set up and
perform backups in minutes, and quickly recover data in multiple formats-all
with the flexibility to conduct bare metal restores on hardware that can be
very different than the source system."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Like many organizations, we rely heavily on email systems to conduct our
day-to-day business, and our users expect nothing less than 24x7
availability," said David Jao, director of Corporate Information Technology
at Hazen and Sawyer, P.C. "With support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, CA
ARCserve High Availability r15 delivers automated failover after unplanned
outages that provides the system uptime our users demand, and without
unnecessary complexity."
"Given our finite resources, we're looking to get reliable backup and
restore functionality from a product that is simple to use and able to handle
technical nuances without a fuss," said Eric Evans, communications
coordinator at Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation. "We are very impressed by the
streamlined interface and Web 2.0 capability of CA ARCserve D2D, as well as
its flexible bare-metal restore capability, which gets the job done right the
first time and without a lot of configuration complexity or second-guessing."
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