CA ARCserve r16 beats Symantec Backup Exec 2012 in head-to-head comparative review

CA Southern Africa has announced that CA ARCserve has earned the Network Testing Labs (NTL) "World Class Award" for best data protection and business continuity by significantly outperforming Symantec Backup Exec 2012 in every category of a recent comparative review.

The review reveals that CA ARCserve is more feature-complete and more reliable, costs less, scales better and is far easier to use. It also supports more OS platforms, works with more virtual environments and cloud vendors, and integrates with more applications. And it excels at providing maximum uptime and availability for critical servers and applications, according to the review, which was commissioned by CA Technologies and conducted by NTL, a leading independent technology research and product evaluation firm.

"In addition to an overall comparison, our test took a close look at the capabilities of CA ARCserve and Symantec Backup Exec around image-based backup, file-based backup and replication/high availability," said Barry Nance, president of NTL, who has evaluated thousands of hardware and software products for publications like Computerworld, BYTE Magazine, Government Computer News, PC Magazine, Network Computing, and Network World. "We recommend CA ARCserve without reservation, and in fact, use it in our own shop."

The report revealed gaps in the Symantec feature set, stating that "Backup Exec 2012 lacks replication, continuous data protection and high availability capabilities" found in CA ARCserve, and that "Symantec's recent substantial enhancements to Backup Exec 2012 fall short of CA ARCserve's basic feature set."

The report states that Symantec charges extra for deduplication, archiving, Active Directory granular restore and synthetic full backup - features that CA Technologies includes in its basic product.

"Customers don't want complex, hard-to-predict pricing as they put together the data protection solutions they need to protect their critical data," said Carol Ann Searra, sales manager, CA Southern Africa. "With CA ARCserve r16, CA Technologies clearly delivers a very complete solution in a user-friendly package that offers coherent, predictable pricing."

CA Southern Africa - IT management experts

CA Southern Africa is SA's leading IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments - from mainframe and distributed to virtual and cloud.

It utilises international innovation, augmented by locally based exceptional expertise, to simplify, manage and secure IT and support complex computing environments Its solutions enable the construction of cloud platforms and are the building blocks for cloud-based IT.

Through its solutions and services, CA Southern Africa provides the means by which its customers can translate the promise of flexible IT and agile business into a reality.

CA Southern Africa is the sole representative of CA Technologies in sub-Saharan Africa and is a member of the JSE-listed EOH group of companies.

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