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CYA TECH INTEGRATES NETWORK APPLIANCE SNAPLOCK SOLUTIONS

CYA Technologies Inc, a leading provider of business continuity and secure collaboration software solutions, has announced the integration of its CYA HOTBackup and CYA iArchive software with NetApp SnapLock and NearStore data retention solution.

Together CYA and NetApp will enable customers to store large volumes of data in secure, easy to manage, and readily accessible environments while achieving a lower total cost of ownership.

Specifically, CYA HOTBackup and CYA iArchive will support NetApp's SnapLock, a disk WORM (write once, read many) solution, allowing enterprise content management (ECM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) customers to archive critical data to high-performance, non-erasable, non-rewritable media, safeguarding it from tampering or deletion. SnapLock renders data on NearStore unalterable, which is a key storage requirement in many regulated data markets. The combined solution is designed to overcome current archival limitations such as slow search and retrieval performance and poor reliability.

"Network Appliance is hitting value points with its combined NearStore and SnapLock solution that are higher than those of optical storage and competitive to those of tape libraries, but with all the performance and functionality of disk," said Elaine Price, co-founder, president & CEO of CYA Technologies. "Together, we can help ECM and PLM customers remove the latency from a restore process, and keep vast volumes of data online and accessible, while saving substantial sums of money in terms of acquiring and managing storage."

"CYA leads a new class of intelligent software providers that are tapping into the APIs of enterprise applications to deliver compelling new functionality to end users in the regulated space," said Suresh Vasudevan, senior director of software management at Network Appliance. "NetApp is working closely with CYA to help customers leverage the power of NearStore for both application-aware disk-to-disk backup and recovery and long-term archiving of data through SnapLock."

Product Details

Two key offerings in the company's CYA Command Console product line are CYA HOTBackup and CYA iArchive.

CYA HOTBackup incrementally backs up and restores objects and the business processes that govern them without requiring users to disconnect from the enterprise content management (ECM) or product lifecycle management (PLM) repository or to re-enter changes since the last "cold" backup. This results in steady productivity, an enhanced level of user support, and assurance that companies in highly regulated industries will maintain the accurate audit trails they require to remain in compliance. CYA HOTBackup is the only product able to restore an individual object, such as a CAD drawing, scanned document, or a new drug submission, along with its relationships to other objects, such as other files and workflows.

CYA iArchive provides comprehensive archiving that can be easily tailored to meet existing business practices while automatically generating full audit reports and facilitating compliance for regulated businesses. CYA iArchive radically lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) of storage, by migrating infrequently accessed data to Network Appliance's NearStore, while leaving this data completely available to the users and the application, quickly and transparently.

More information is located at: www.cya.com/partners/partnerFrame.asp?menuid=14&secid=3.