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BrightStor SAN MANAGER OPTIMIZES MULTIVENDOR STORAGE NETS

Computer Associates International Inc (CA) has announced the general availability of BrightStor SAN Manager, a comprehensive storage area network (SAN) solution that radically simplifies the administration and troubleshooting of multivendor SANs.

BrightStor SAN Manager makes it easy to discover, visualize, monitor, and administer all SAN components from a single point of control. Its highly graphical interface and sophisticated, policy-based automation facilities simplify the management of even the most extensive multi-SAN environments, thereby maximizing system performance and reliability while reducing the risk of costly storage failures. By enabling IT departments to immediately determine how SAN capacity or availability issues relate to critical business processes, BrightStor SAN Manager helps them respond appropriately to any SANrelated event.

"The potentially high benefits that SAN technology offers can quickly evaporate if this environment is poorly managed -- or if it takes too much time and training to manage it adequately," said Nigel Turner, CA's senior vice president of BrightStor solutions. "With CA's BrightStor SAN Manager, the promise of cost-efficient, highly reliable storage area networking can be fully realized."

BrightStor SAN Manager integrates with CA's BrightStor Storage Resource Manager and BrightStor Portal for efficient administration and asset utilization of the heterogeneous storage environment. In addition, tight integration with Unicenter infrastructure management solutions and eTrust security solutions provides unique end-to-end monitoring and operational capabilities. For example, by linking BrightStor SAN Manager to Unicenter Service Level Management, IT departments can incorporate their SANs into their end-to-end infrastructure service level agreements.

BrightStor SAN Manager supports a full range of devices from leading storage vendors -- including ADIC, Brocade, EMC, Emulex, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and XIOtech.

"With its strong management capabilities and simple GUI, BrightStor SAN Manager has greatly reduced the time needed to implement and troubleshoot our SAN infrastructure while helping us achieve optimum availability," said Michael Eckert, enterprise automation administrator, Electronic Theatre Controls Inc, a global leader in the manufacture of entertainment and architectural lighting equipment and systems. "Tasks that used to take several hours, if not days, can now be done in minutes by a single technician."

BrightStor SAN Manager is available from CA and CA's global network of enterprise storage partners.

"BrightStor SAN Manager clearly demonstrates the expertise that CA has developed through years of storage industry leadership and its commitment to maintain that leadership as our customers' storage needs continue to evolve," said Dave Hall, senior vice president and chief technology officer at CompuCom, a provider of outsourcing and systems integration services. "BrightStor SAN Manager is a robust, well-designed solution that effectively meets our customers' requirements for enterprise-class SAN resource administration."

For information on CA's complete line of BrightStor solutions, please visit ca.com/brightstor.

About Computer Associates

Computer Associates International Inc delivers The Software That Manages eBusiness. CA's world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness management through industry-leading brands: Unicenter for infrastructure management, eTrust for security management, BrightStor for storage management, CleverPath for portal and business intelligence, AllFusion for application life cycle management, Advantage for data management and application development, and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology. Founded in 1976, CA serves organizations in more than 100 countries, including 99 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit ca.com/.

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Contact: Michael Kornspan of CA, 631-342-2463, michael.kornspan@ca.com.