CA Southern Africa has revealed that CA Technologies has finalised an agreement with Microsoft to provide its industry leading ARCserve data protection technology as a software as a service (SaaS) offering using Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform.
Gary Lawrence, MD, CA Southern Africa, says the new cloud offering - scheduled for availability in the second half of this year - is part of CA's strategy for bringing rapidly deployable, easy-to-own IT management solutions to market.
“This solution will be especially attractive in situations where conventional, internally deployed backup-and-restore systems and software implementation may be less financially or operationally appealing. This is often the case with small businesses or remote offices that lack the necessary on-site IT staff,” says Lawrence.
He adds that CA's SaaS data protection solution is designed to help customers cost-efficiently mitigate a wide range of information risks, including system downtime and catastrophic data loss across the customer's entire IT portfolio.
“The new solution will be designed to meet the needs of CA Technologies and Microsoft partners - especially those who may incorporate its data protection functionality into their broader cloud-based IT management offerings.
“By leveraging vendor solutions and expertise, partners can offer customers the ability to cost-effectively offload routine IT operations,” says Andrea Lodolo, CTO, CA Southern Africa.
“The powerful combination of CA ARCserve and Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will enable us to offer the partner community a scalable, feature-rich, and fully configurable resource for this growing management services market,” concludes Lodolo.
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CA Southern Africa is the sole representative of CA Technologies in sub-Saharan Africa and is a member of the EOH group of companies.
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is the world's foremost independent IT management software company. EOH is listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange and is a leading provider of business and technology solutions.
CA Southern Africa utilises international innovation, augmented by locally-based exceptional expertise, to simplify IT and unify complex computing environments. The company delivers turnkey solutions to the market through the provision of traditional software-based offerings - plus other outcomes-based services - that require little upfront investment or skill.
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