CA launches new disk to disk back solutions

NEW DELHI: US based Computer Associates this week announced new disk back up and recovery management solutions for enterprises across physical and virtual environments. The suite of software products claim to provide total protection, recovery and availability for customers’ systems, applications and data.

The new products have built-in data deduplication, and features like infrastructure visualization and granular restore of Microsoft Active Directory, to continue to help companies reduce costs. The new release also includes products for instantaneous recovery and patent-pending I2 Technology that, drastically claims to reduces storage space, network traffic and load on production servers.

"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," he added.

The new disk-to-disk backup and restore product - CA ARCserve D2D claims to help organizations control their critical data anywhere. The products are focused on extending an 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 or server virtualization and data migration.

With more than 20 applications and platforms supported, the products are 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.