Customers use CA`s BrightStor Managed Capacity Licensing to control storage management costs

Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE: CA) has announced that a growing number of customers are leveraging CA`s BrightStor Managed Capacity Licensing to streamline procurement and control software costs even as their storage infrastructures grow.

BrightStor Managed Capacity Licensing is a simplified licensing model based on terabyte capacity that eliminates the need to track server or application-based licences. It enables IT managers to implement storage management hardware and software as needed without increasing their BrightStor licensing costs.

Three different BrightStor suites can be procured through this licensing structure:

* BrightStor Capacity-Based Data Availability Suite for customers focused on intelligent backup and restore including storage resource management, desktop and server backup and recovery and high availability.
* BrightStor Capacity-Based Storage Management Suite for customers implementing intelligent storage management including storage resource management, SAN design and management, and process automation.
* BrightStor Capacity-Based Enterprise Management Suite for customers requiring end-to-end storage management capabilities including all the solutions in the other two suites.

"Customers depend on CA`s BrightStor solutions to intelligently manage storage across their continually evolving and expanding enterprise environments, but they also have to hold the line on costs and carefully allocate their limited software budgets," said Jim Geronaitis, vice-president of BrightStor storage management at CA. "CA`s Managed Capacity Licensing gives them the flexibility and predictability they need to fulfil these twin management objectives."

Ernst & Young AG, a member of Ernst & Young International, is the third largest auditing company in Germany, employing more than 6 400 people in 24 locations. The company often had to purchase licences and maintenance agreements on an ad hoc basis to manage its growing storage infrastructure. By using CA`s BrightStor Managed Capacity Licensing, Ernst & Young AG has been able to control costs and simplify licence management while ensuring availability and safety of critical corporate data.

Ernst & Young AG is deploying the entire BrightStor Capacity-Based Data Availability Suite on most of its systems across Germany.

"CA`s BrightStor Managed Capacity Licensing has enabled us to easily take advantage of any future licence implementation across our various server systems," said Joerg Huntermann, data centre operations lead, at Ernst & Young AG. "It`s also a fair and simple process to adjust to any future needs."

St Vincent`s Healthcare System has been widely recognised for excellence in providing patient care to the people of Jacksonville, Florida and surrounding communities. St Vincent`s needed to cost-effectively manage a new SAN that optimises the archiving, retrieval and backup of digital radiography images and supports migration to a user-friendly clinical information system.

CA`s BrightStor Managed Capacity Licence allowed Saint Vincent`s to re-license BrightStor ARCserve Backup across its Windows, NetWare and Linux servers while adding the BrightStor SAN management functionality it needed - all at a lower annual cost. Under the terms of the enterprise licence, St Vincent`s can deploy all of the solutions in the BrightStor data availability and storage management suites at no additional charge.

"CA`s capacity licence was a `no-brainer` business decision for us because we were able to save money while adding management capabilities," said Mike Christiansen, Intel server and systems manager for St Vincent`s. "Now we have greater control over the costs of supporting a more efficient platform strategy, and we can mix-and-match hardware at our discretion without licensing issues."

St Vincent`s is considering a plan to migrate files and print services to Linux. With its managed capacity licence, this proposed consolidation would not require any re-licensing and would not impact its storage management software costs.

INVISION.COM provides customers with application development, integration and managed network services, including strategy, implementation, hosting and management. By leveraging CA`s BrightStor Managed Capacity Licensing, INVISION.COM has improved its ability to deliver highly reliable services to its customers while greatly simplifying licence administration. INVISION.COM is using the entire BrightStor Capacity-Based Data Availability Suite to provide data protection as a service in its data centre and across a variety of hosted applications for remote users ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 50. Customer SLAs focus primarily on uptime and response time, so the ability to offer complete data availability services based on customer requirements is essential.

"As a service provider for a wide range of businesses, we need to be nimble in how we use software to fulfil SLAs," said Tyler Roye, president and CEO for INVISION.COM. "CA`s licensing model provides the flexibility we need to meet customers` varied data protection needs and simplify complex administration of our licences."

For more information about BrightStor Managed Capacity Licensing, please visit http://ca.com/brightstor/license.