Bocada Enterprise 5.3 Available

Bocada, Inc., provider of data protection management software, announced the general availability of the latest version of its flagship product, Bocada Enterprise 5.3. Enhancements in this version are focused on further increasing performance in large scale environments and continuing to support new and updated data protection technologies to help customers reduce administrative tasks, meet compliance initiatives and reduce overall TCO.

Bocada Enterprise 5.3 is designed to gather, analyze and consolidate information from cross-platform, heterogeneous data protection environments providing visibility and insight into the entire disk and tape backup process. With this release, Bocada continues to add support for the broadest range of heterogeneous data protection applications while providing enhanced functionality for troubleshooting, planning and data protection analysis. Because of the flexibility of the Bocada Enterprise architecture, new application support can quickly and easily be added based on market demand.

The new features in Bocada Enterprise 5.3 include:

Enhanced Install and Configuration Assistant
Enhanced Network Scanner and Orphans reports
Enhanced Search Network Wizard
Simplified Web Deployment
Ability to Email reports

New Products and Product Version support:

EMC Networker 7.4
Symantec PureDisk 6.2.2
Symantec Backup Exec 12
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack 1
CommVault Galaxy Data Protection 7.0
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5

“We continue to enhance our core product with features most important to our customer base, and at the same time we are continuously adding support for additional data protection applications” said Nancy Hurley, CEO at Bocada. “Our approach is to ensure customers have the flexibility to adopt or migrate to new technologies while continuously benefiting from the in depth analysis provided by Bocada Enterprise.”

Bocada Enterprise provides IT organizations and service providers with awareness, understanding and knowledge required to effectively manage data protection environments, drive down capital costs and increase operational efficiencies. The Bocada Enterprise platform aggregates, organizes and presents consolidated views of data protection across all major data protection applications, technologies and platforms, including those from Symantec, EMC/Legato, IBM ,CA, HP, CommVault, and Sun StorageTek (ACSLS).