CA ARCserve r16 Unifies Data Protection Capability Across Virtual, Conventional and Cloud Resources to Ease Management of Diverse IT Infrastructures

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced CA ARCserve® r16, a broad range hybrid data protection solution that assists customers and service providers to rigorously safeguard the availability of critical data, applications and services across their increasingly diverse mix of virtual, conventional, and cloud resources.

“Today’s IT organisations are spending inordinate time and money protecting critical services—often relying on a mix of ‘point’ backup solutions for conventional servers, virtual infrastructure and cloud resources, that leave them exposed to the risk of a highly damaging outage,” said Scott Caulfield, Director, Data Management at CA Technologies, Australia and New Zealand. “CA ARCserve r16 addresses this problem by dramatically reducing the cost and effort required to implement data protection capability across diverse IT environments.”

“The uptake of virtualisation technology in Australia is one of highest in the world which means that downtime is just not an option – especially in our line of business,” said Grant Klaaysen, Director at Managed Service Provider – GPK Computers Pty Ltd. “We chose CA ARCserve r16 as our primary disaster recovery solution over Microsoft DPM and Symantec Backup Exec, as we were impressed by the overall integration of products into a centrally managed portal. We are confident that CA ARCserve r16 will ensure the availability of key business data, applications and services in our highly virtualised world.”

CA ARCserve r16 unifies data management functions through a scalable, modular architecture that also facilitates integration with third-party software such as remote monitoring tools, management platforms, and solutions from service providers, like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, N-able and LabTech.

CA ARCserve r16 further simplifies management of heterogeneous IT environments by allowing customers to purchase multiple data protection functionalities with a single license based on the total amount of data they need to protect. This licensing model also makes it easier for service providers to price and package complete data protection and management solutions to their customers. CA ARCserve r16 is also available through traditional licensing models.

Broad Range Protection for Virtualised Infrastructure

A new offering, CA ARCserve r16 Central Host-Based VM Backup, assists organisations to protect their virtual infrastructure with image-based host-level protection for VMware vSphere™, as well as full system replication and high availability supporting Microsoft® Hyper-V™, VMware vSphere and Citrix® XenServer®. By providing both full bare-metal recovery and full system failover of complete VMs, it can assist organisations to meet their increasingly stringent restore SLAs. It is designed to facilitate recovery of individual applications and granular recovery of targeted files and folders within minutes.

With the new CA ARCserve r16 Central Virtual Standby, customers can schedule the automatic conversion of image-based recovery points to VMware Virtual Disk or Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk formats. By making these backup images available as standby virtual machines, customers can further speed the recovery of data and services.

Powerful Support for the Cloud CA ARCserve r16 introduces a common cloud connection layer across all data protection components— including traditional file backup, disk imaging, replication and high availability. This provides integrated access to hybrid cloud storage, assisting customers to more readily take advantage of public and private cloud services such as Amazon Web Services®, Microsoft Windows Azure™ and Eucalyptus, for purposes such as remote, off-site data protection, archiving and failover. CA ARCserve r16 also allows customers to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)™ as their disaster recovery infrastructure helping to ensuring they can be up and running quickly in the event of a problem with their on-premises infrastructure. This cold standby technology can assist customers in reducing the significant costs associated with the purchase of redundant hardware and cloud computing charges as part of a business continuity plan.

CA ARCserve r16 also assists service providers and their customers to protect systems and data both locally (for fast, simple end-user or administrator recovery), and in the cloud (to protect critical data files offsite for disaster recovery).

Additional Enhancements across Entire Solution Set All major components of CA ARCserve r16—including ARCserve Backup, ARCserve D2D and ARCserve Replication and High Availability—have been updated with significant enhancements, including new AES encryption, all of which are designed to facilitate the securing of data in transfer and at rest, as well as tighten integration between traditional and image-based backup.

In addition, CA ARCserve continues to offer integrated backup to disk, tape or cloud, storage resource management, infrastructure visualisation and data deduplication.

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