CA completes storage protection with new versions of ARCserveIT

Computer Associates Africa (CA) has announced the general availability of the Enterprise and Workgroup Editions of its comprehensive ARCserveIT storage protection solution, with support for a wide range of platforms including Windows NT, NetWare and Unix. With this product, CA is offering small businesses and corporate IT departments unprecedented flexibility in a rapidly deployable storage protection solution.

ARCserveIT Enterprise Edition is designed for large-scale heterogeneous computing environments. It provides the scalability, centralised administration and multi-platform support essential for protecting valuable information assets across the distributed enterprise infrastructure.

ARCserveIT Workgroup Edition is designed for LAN-centric departmental or small-business environments. It provides the ease of administration necessary to help reduce cost-of-ownership while delivering maximum protection and fast restoration capabilities for critical data.

"With the introduction of this complete ARCserveIT line, CA is giving customers real choices in how they want to deploy proven storage protection technology - practical choices that have to do with their computing environments, management strategies and budgets," says Mark Knight, CA Africa`s channel manager.

Knight also points out that CA`s broad ARCserveIT line provides additional flexibility in crafting an effective, individually customised backup strategy. "Instead of forcing customers into a rigid implementation, CA is giving IT decision-makers the flexibility they need to optimise their cost/benefit ratio for storage management," he says.

ARCserveIT enables customers to move from workgroup-based to enterprise-wide storage management strategies. The Enterprise Edition enables customers to apply the benefits of CA`s Unicenter TNG`s enterprise management technology to their storage management challenges first and then leverage that deployment as part of an upgrade to a full Unicenter TNG roll-out - if and when they choose to do so.

The Enterprise Edition provides storage management for Windows NT, multiple Unix variants, NetWare, OS/2, AS/400 and OS/390 servers, and extends that protection to virtually any client - including Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, Windows NT and Macintosh. Free RAID support helps ensure extremely high-performance backup and provides fault tolerance for device and media failure.

The Workgroup Edition supports up to six Windows NT and NetWare servers and incorporates both virus protection and data encryption facilities. It includes free limited tape and optical library support. Its extensive device support can back up data to virtually any tape, removable drive or optical device. Graphical screens, wizards, alerts and easy-to-use scheduling facilities ensure that backup tasks can be properly executed with a minimum of effort. It also provides support for Microsoft Tape Format (MTF), while optional agents are available for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Ingres II, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, and Informix.