New Release of CA Recovery Management

CA Recovery Management includes new releases of CA ARCserve Backup, CA XOsoft High Availability (formerly CA XOsoft WANSyncHA) and CA XOsoft Replication
(formerly CA XOsoft WANSync), offering channel partners and their
customers the latest advances in data protection, business continuity
and disaster recovery.

"This is the most significant set of new
product offerings yet by CA’s Mid-Market and Storage business unit",
said Bill Lipsin, senior vice president of worldwide channels at CA.
"Our customers require recovery management solutions that solve their
most pressing problems and are easy to deploy, use and maintain—we are
enabling our channel partners to address these needs head on."

"IT organizations are adopting multi-layered
data protection strategies to ensure non-stop business operations,"
said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "CA
Recovery Management provides comprehensive technology that meets
mid-market companies’ data protection and recovery requirements and has
many new features and enhancements to CA ARCserve Backup and CA XOsoft
replication and high availability products that offer significant
business value."

The new CA Recovery Management solution includes:

CA ARCserve Backup r12

CA
ARCserve Backup delivers comprehensive data protection with centralized
management and advanced features designed to address changing business
needs. This high performance solution combines innovative disk and tape
backup with powerful, integrated anti-virus and encryption tools,
making it one of the most secure "out-of-the-box" backup solutions
offered today.

Highlights of the new release include:

• New Centralized Management capabilities simplify administration of both local and remote backup through a single console.
• Improved encryption capabilities protect critical business information from internal and external threats
• Enhanced VMware integration provides increased levels of data protection and backup efficiency within virtual environments
• Advanced reporting provides administrators actionable information to quickly optimize and troubleshoot their backup environment
• Extended Virtual Tape Library and disk management capabilities simplify and speed the recovery process
• New
  ARCserve catalog database takes full advantage of Microsoft SQL Server
  to improve manageability, reliability and speed recovery
• Broader
  platform, media and application support make it easier for customers to
  deploy ARCserve across their diverse IT environment
• Enhanced
  integration with CA XOsoft products provides seamless administration of
  both replicas and backup jobs within one recovery management solution

CA XOsoft High Availability r12
and CA XOsoft Replication r12

CA
XOsoft Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability are robust business
continuity and disaster recovery solutions that integrate replication,
continuous data protection (CDP), automated failover and automated
disaster recovery testing to help ensure the protection and
recoverability of business-critical applications.

Highlights of the new release include:

• Centralized
  Management allows administrators to configure, manage and monitor
  replication scenarios across multiple servers from a single location
• New
  CDP repository makes finding information faster and easier, saves time
  and reduces administrative burden by allowing end users to recover
  their own data and email messages
• Enhanced DR testing provides fully automated scheduled tests without affecting replication or users
• Enhanced VSS snapshot management speeds data recovery
• New Assessment Mode simplifies bandwidth capacity planning
• New synchronization design improves data protection, reduces planned downtime and simplifies maintenance
• Zero
  Reboot Upgrades are added to Zero Reboot Implementation to simplify and
  make planning and implementation of new installations and upgrades much
  easier
• Scalability and performance enhancements allow
  administrators to efficiently handle larger file systems and the most
  demanding 64-bit applications

The
numerous enhancements to CA Recovery Management offer customers
business value in safeguarding data stored on diverse
Microsoft platforms, both locally and in remote offices.

"IT
needs a wide range of recovery-management technology to ensure
cost-effective and efficient protection of critical business
information," said Greg Kirchoff, director, Global ISV Infrastructure
Partners at Microsoft Corp. "CA continues to deliver innovative
solutions that provide tremendous value in helping organizations
achieve their high availability and disaster recovery goals across key
Microsoft platforms such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server
2005 and SQL Server 2008, Windows Essential Business Server, SharePoint
Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008."