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CA'S BRIGHTSTOR ENTERPRISE BACKUP 10.5 ALIGNS COSTS & VALUE

Computer Associates International Inc (CA) has announced the availability of BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5, an innovative enterprise backup and recovery solution that enables organizations to align data protection costs with the value of that data to the business.

BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5 provides policy-based management backup functions that allow storage administrators to assign virtually every type of data across the enterprise to any available and appropriate storage resource. By doing so, BrightStor Enterprise Backup enables organizations to minimize both business risk and storage infrastructure expenditures.

"One size doesn't fit all when it comes to data protection," said Bob Davis, CA's vice president of BrightStor solutions. "With BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5, no customer need ever waste $10,000 to protect $1,000 worth of data, or put data worth $500,000 at risk by backing it up on an inadequate low-end system."

BrightStor Enterprise Backup gives storage administrators the flexibility to use the resource most appropriate for each storage type by integrating with CA's own popular management solutions -- including BrightStor ARCserve Backup -- and with a wide range of leading third-party offerings including:

• Iron Mountain and other offsite vaulting services.
• Snapshot image technology from EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, and Microsoft.

BrightStor Enterprise Backup also incorporates BrightStor Portal technology to provide common management and cross-server reporting for all enterprise storage resources.

"Organizations have huge amounts of data, but only limited budgets for data protection," said David Hill, vice president of storage research at The Aberdeen Group. "It is therefore essential for them to appropriately assign protection resources to data selectively, based on well-defined risk factors. CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup provides a means of accomplishing this important objective."

BrightStor Enterprise Backup allows enterprise storage policies to be defined from a centralized console across all major platforms, including Windows Server 2003/2000/NT, major UNIX derivatives and Linux distributions, NetWare and Open VMS. It provides high-performance backup and recovery of Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange, Oracle, Lotus Notes, Sybase, SAP R/3, Advantage Ingres, Informix, DB2 and other key applications. This cross-platform approach supports corporate on-demand computing initiatives, whereby enterprise resources are managed as a holistic utility that can be flexibly and dynamically allocated based on changing business needs.

BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5 has been benchmarked as the fastest recovery and backup solution for multi-terabyte databases. In testing with Microsoft Corp. last fall, for example, a beta version of BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5 achieved a record-setting 2.6 terabyte-per-hour archival backup of a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database running on Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. BrightStor Enterprise Backup's restore performance achieved a sustained rate of 2.2TB/hr.

"BrightStor Enterprise Backup's tremendous performance makes it an invaluable solution for protecting our business from potentially disastrous data loss," said Mohammad Alkazaz, I.T. manager of Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors, a global leader in the manufacture and development of Scintillation and Photonic Materials. "With its new class-specific policy capabilities, it will enable us to do an even better job of fully protecting our business within our stringent resource constraints."

CA customers can use BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5 to manage their BrightStor ARCserve Backup version 9 environments, allowing them to seamlessly migrate to a true on-demand data protection strategy while protecting their existing investments. Integration with BrightStor Storage Resource Manager, CA's eTrust Antivirus, and CA's Unicenter Network and Systems Management and Unicenter Software Delivery further enhances manageability for IT administrators.

BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5 is available from CA and CA's global network of enterprise storage partners.