ScaleMatrix With CA ARCserve

CA, Inc. announced that ScaleMatrix, Inc., a colocation, private
cloud hosting and MSP, is using CA ARCserve
to support its managed data security service that protects more than 100TB of
customer data for DR, BC and HA business services.

ScaleMatrix offers cutting-edge IT solutions that enable organizations to
reduce costs, increase agility and safeguard compliance. The company’s customers – many from heavily
regulated sectors such as finance, biomedical and government – demand data availability and service continuity. The company needed a
recovery management solution that would work across physical and virtual
environments, and serve as a robust platform for simple cloud management.

"Our customers are under pressure to
reduce IT spend while complying with regulations that impact the storage and
management of data," said James Heller, marketing director,
ScaleMatrix. "To help them meet these goals, we need to ensure that our services
combine data and system HA with efficiency and
cost-effectiveness."

The need for effective DR was highlighted last year when south Texas suffered a
series of prolonged power outages.

"The incident acted as a wake-up
call for many businesses, as it impacted their ability to continue operating,"
said Heller. "An hour of downtime might be manageable for some, but beyond this, many
organizations’ operations can be significantly impacted."

To ensure ScaleMatrix’s services would provide the BC demanded by its clients,
the company needed to extend its DR capabilities while simplifying the
provisioning and management of its private cloud services.

ARCserve forms the basis of a ScaleMatrix managed data security service that
uses cloud storage to minimize costs. The company also uses the CA
AppLogic cloud platform to support its private cloud services.

"We selected the CA Technologies solutions
as they are scalable, easy to configure and integrate and require minimal
support," adds Heller. "They enable us to help organizations bring
new services to market faster, comply with regulations and get more from their
IT budgets."

ScaleMatrix’s data security managed service integrates ARCserve with cloud
storage offerings and an appliance-based solution to provide data
availability at an affordable cost. The
level of availability can be varied according to individual customer or system
needs, from simple backup to HA and various options in between.

In addition to its customer offerings, ScaleMatrix uses ARCserve to
replicate its own systems and data between its San Diego and Texas datacenters
– mitigating the impact of local events such as power outages or natural
disasters.

In total, more than 100TB of ScaleMatrix and customer data is protected across
a range of systems. Recovery time
varies from up to a day for those customers using basic backup services, to
microseconds for those with real-time replication and failover.

The AppLogic cloud platform allows ScaleMatrix to establish and scale
services quickly, maximizing profitability while meeting customer demand for
scalable and HA services. ScaleMatrix has ‘wrapped’ a number of applications, including ARCserve, to create pre-defined services that can be provisioned with
AppLogic’s drag and drop interface.

"The success of ScaleMatrix
underscores the value that service providers get from partnering with CA
Technologies to quickly bring new, scalable offerings to market," said
Steve Fairbanks, VP, data management, CA. "CA
Technologies enables them to do exactly that with ARCserve and AppLogic, which
deliver reliable data protection and simplify the provisioning and management
of cloud services."