CA Extended Live Trial of DR Software to Companies in Hurricane-Prone States

CA announced an extended live trial of its CA XOsoft disaster recovery (DR) software to help U.S. companies with data centers in hurricane-vulnerable states protect critical business information. CA’s disaster recovery solutions have already protected many companies in areas hard hit by the recent onslaught of dangerous storms. The extended trial, offered until October 15th, can be used for the balance of the hurricane season, until December 1st.

Louisiana Supreme Court (LASC) successfully leveraged CA XOsoft High Availability software to switch operations from their data center to a DR hot site during hurricane Gustav. Despite the storm prompting a state-wide evacuation in Louisiana, threatening LSC’s headquarters, causing massive power outages and forcing a court shut-down, they were able to provide continuous service and protect vital data.

“It is critical that we protect our case information and keep communications open during an emergency in order to keep the court system running,” said Peter Haas, director of technology for Louisiana Supreme Court. “With our DR plan, driven by CA’s High Availability software, we didn’t loose any court data, a single email or the ability to communicate at any point during Gustav.”

Additional customers have had similar successes in storm-battered areas such as Florida and Texas during hurricanes Fey, Dolly, Hanna and Ike.

“Recently, the people at UTB needed to execute the strategy as heavy gales and rain associated with Hurricane Dolly began to slam the campus in Brownsville,” wrote Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International, 25 year veteran disaster recovery planner and author of five books on disaster recovery planning. “The XOsoft solution performed, in a word, flawlessly.”

“This has been a tough hurricane season, and with two more months to go, customers without DR software are looking for a way to implement protection fast,” said Frank Jablonski, senior director, product marketing for Recovery Management at CA. “That’s why we are offering a free, extended trial—to provide them with a fast, easy way to implement a solution now because they don’t have to go through their procurement process and CA XOsoft doesn’t require any planned downtime to install.”

During the extended trial, customers can also leverage another important component of CA’s DR solution, CA’s DR testing option, which verifies the functionality of the replicated data without impacting business operations or placing the data at risk. Current customers use this distinctive capability to ensure their DR plan will work before a disaster actually strikes.

“We can’t afford to lose critical business data or shut down operations in the event of an unplanned outage or catastrophic event,” said Martin Silverman, director, IT at EvensonBest, LLC, a NYC-based furniture distributor. “We use CA XOsoft High Availability to ensure business continuity and point-in-time recovery if our main facility goes dark, and the DR testing option to ensure our strategy will work instead of finding out when it’s too late.”

Companies with offices in eligible states can sign up for the standard 14-day trial and then call 1-800-576-9727 by October 15th to get the extension. They can call the same toll-free number for more information on the offer.

About CA XOsoft
CA XOsoft Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability are award-winning software products that help ensure 24×7 protection and availability of key business applications and data, providing application-aware replication and automatic failover for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, IIS, SharePoint, Oracle, Blackberry Enterprise Server and File Servers. Heterogeneous replication support is available for Linux and UNIX. Implementation, upgrades and DR testing capabilities are designed to be simple and non-disruptive to business operations.

Eligible States
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, District of Columbia, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine.