Computer Associates' Solutions Distributed by IBM

Computer Associates International, Inc, a leading eBusiness solutions provider, announced that IBM has selected CA's Enterprise Storage Management Solutions to accompany its OS/390 SystemPac program for worldwide distribution. CA's Enterprise Storage solutions add superior management, monitoring, and automated data storage capabilities to the SystemPac program and can be leveraged in both distributed and centralized environments.

"The CA family of enterprise storage management products is a significant new addition to the OS/390 SystemPac Program, extending and enhancing the versatility of OS/390 for mission-critical eBusiness applications," said Jerrie Stewart, IBMs OS/390 product manager. "By including CA's solutions in one of our most popular systems-management bundles, IBM continues to provide customers with easy access to leading storage management software."

For eBusiness applications to run successfully, the uninterrupted availability of storage systems is essential. CA's Enterprise Storage solutions are designed to ensure continuous, 24 X 7 storage system availability, anytime, anywhere-enterprise-wide.

CA-Vantage is CA's first storage product offered through SystemPac. CA-Disk, including the OS/390 UNIX Edition, CA-Vtape, CA-Allocate, and CA-Compress will soon be added to the program. Other products distributed through SystemPac include CA's DB2 for OS/390 solutions and CA's SOLVE Enterprise Network Management products.

CA-Disk provides OS/390 backup, restore, migration and recovery. A new release providing improved backup and archive run-time performance, support for enhanced high-density tape devices (IBM 3590E and STK 9840/3590), enhanced disaster recovery capabilities and support for Snapshot Copy will soon be available. The OS/390 UNIX Edition that provides file restoration from the UNIX console, high-speed HFS physical backup, improved backup and archive runtime performance, Move/Copy at the file level, and auto-restore capability will be available in the near future.

CA-Allocate is the industry's premier allocation management software that provides full system control of all aspects of data management, from creation to deletion.

CA-Compress provides software-based compression of all popular data types, facilitating physical storage space savings and performance enhancement.

CA-Vtape provides virtual tape functionality to OS/390. A new release that provides data compression, support for MVS Solutions' Throughput Manager, PARMLIB support, dynamic group definitions, and CA-Vantage-like data set filter lists will be available later this year.

Under the SystemPac agreement, IBM will function as an additional distribution channel for these CA solutions. Products ordered through SystemPac are pre-installed, fully tested, and bundled in IBM's OS/390 system tapes. CA also continues to offer the Enterprise Storage Management solutions directly to the end user. Through its CAMPUS (CA Extended Maintenance Upgrade Service), CA offers a software suite that is customizable for each client, as well as through VARs, system integrators, and other channels.

"We are pleased that our products are included in SystemPac because it expedites installation for our mutual clients," said Mark Combs, CA senior vice president for OS/390. "Like CAMPUS, SystemPac makes it easier and faster for OS/390 clients to install and implement the solutions they rely on to manage their enterprise and support eBusiness applications."

Computer Associates International Inc, a leading business software company, delivers the end-to-end infrastructure to enable eBusiness through innovative technology, services and education. For more information, visit www.ca.com.

Contact Ilona Mohacsi of Computer Associates, 631-342-2542 or ilona.mohacsi@ca.com.