CA ships BrightStor ARCserve Backup Version 9 for NetWare

Computer Associates International, Inc (CA) today announced the general availability of Version 9 of BrightStor ARCserve Backup for NetWare, its industry-leading data protection solution for users of Novell`s popular operating system. The new version delivers unmatched ease-of-use, reliability and performance, along with the simplified licensing and aggressive pricing today`s corporate buyers demand.

BrightStor ARCserve Backup for NetWare provides outstanding support for NetWare 6 environments, including Open File Agent technology that delivers "Copy on Write" functionality. This enables critical data to be continually protected - even while applications are in use.

BrightStor ARCserve Backup 9 Version 9 has been extensively beta tested worldwide by hundreds of organisations and has received Novell`s "YES, Tested and Approved" certification for NetWare 6.

"NetWare continues to be an integral component of our customers` enterprise computing environments, so CA is continuing to deliver innovative storage solutions that meet their evolving needs," said Nigel Turner, CA`s senior vice-president of BrightStor solutions. "This release demonstrates our ongoing commitment to providing to our customers with state-of-the-art, integrated data protection for all platforms that carry their mission-critical data."

CA has been a leader in the NetWare data availability market since its acquisition of Cheyenne Software and its ARCserve product line in 1996.

"CA and Novell have had a long and successful relationship with the ARCserve product, and we are pleased to see this new version made available to our shared customers," said Doug Knight, vice-president of networking infrastructure products for Novell. "Together NetWare 6 and ARCserve 9 give customers a compelling solution for consolidating their data into a heterogeneous SAN environments."

Starting at a base price of $695, BrightStor ARCserve Backup 9 allows customers to build their own fully customised data protection system for virtually any distributed environment, regardless of platform. BrightStor ARCserve Backup for NetWare allows data from Novell NetWare, Microsoft Windows, Linux and Unix servers to be backed up to a Novell NetWare server.

"The feedback from our customers over the past two months has been extremely positive as they`ve seen how the latest version of BrightStor ARCserve Backup can meet their evolving storage requirements," said Harry Zoberman, senior vice-president of Marketing and Operations, ASAP Software. "We`re expecting our NetWare customers to make this a very popular solution."

BrightStor ARCserve Backup for NetWare integrates seamlessly with the recently released Windows version - a key consideration in the mixed environments that characterize most corporate deployments. BrightStor ARCserve Backup for Linux, currently in beta testing and scheduled for early 2003 general availability, will offer similar integration.