Computer Associates Africa has introduced five competitively priced Protection Suites that meet security, storage and data migration needs of small and medium businesses (SMBs) and provide simplified technology acquisition, deployment and ownership.
Offered in 17 languages, CA`s Protection Suites incorporate award-winning anti-virus and anti-spyware technology, automated data backup and restore functions, and advanced system migration technology that reduce the total cost of ownership of PCs.
They will be available next month (July 2005) with prices ranging from R2 210 for CA Desktop Protection Suite to R7 475 for the CA Business Protection Suite.
According to the Yankee Group 2004 SMB IT Infrastructure Survey, 61% of SMBs ranked protecting the company from security breaches as their top concern in managing their IT infrastructure, followed by restoring and backing up data to prevent failure. Yankee Group also found that 54% of SMBs expect to upgrade their PCs in 2005.
"By offering our latest protection suites at an affordable pricing we believe that we are protecting our SMB customers against a full range of diverse data-loss and business-interruption threats, while enabling them to streamline their desktop and server protection processes," comments Matthew Barker, field partner manager at Computer Associates Africa.
Through product development and acquisition, CA is stepping up its focus on the SMB market and recently announced a separate office responsible for developing and marketing SMB solutions. This global release of the Protection Suites adds support for 12 more languages and includes Desktop DNA Migrator, an advanced system migration solution for the SMB market. By streamlining the capture and transfer of user settings and data during a PC refresh, operating system (OS) upgrade or desktop recovery, Desktop DNA Migrator reduces downtime while preserving the unique data, settings and preferences of individual users.
CA is also offering Desktop DNA Migrator to SMBs as a standalone solution.
In addition to Desktop DNA Migrator, CA`s Protection Suites include eTrust Anti-virus, eTrust Pest Patrol Anti-Spyware and BrightStor ARCserve Backup for backup-and-restore protection of desktops, laptops, servers and mobile devices.
The five suites are:
* CA Desktop Protection Suite for protecting data on users` desktops and laptops.
* CA Server Protection Suite for protection of centrally stored and managed data.
* CA Business Protection Suite for protection of both server- and desktop-resident data.
* CA Business Protection Suite for Microsoft Small Business Server Standard Edition for SMBs using or planning to implement the standard edition of Microsoft`s Small Business Server.
* CA Business Protection Suite for Microsoft Small Business Server Premium Edition for SMBs using or planning to implement the premium edition of Microsoft`s Small Business Server.
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