CA introduces new recovery software; bags three Gartner awards
By Our Corporate Bureau | 14 Dec 2006
Management software company Computer Associates (CA), which trades on the NYSE as CA, has introduced a new recovery management solution that helps customers ensure protection, recoverability and uninterrupted access to critical business information by combining continuous data protection (CDP), business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities into one easy-to-manage package.
It was also voted 'Solution', 'Vendor' and 'Presentation' for its CA Clarity at the 2006 Gartner Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Summit, Europe, an award which recognises technology and service providers for their solutions, programs, service and support.
Information technology management and governance firm Niku, acquired by CA in an all-cash $350 million deal in June 2005, had developed Clarity.
This marks the third consecutive year that CA has won ' Solution' and ' Vendor' at Gartner's event in Europe, and the sixth consecutive Gartner PPM Summit where CA Clarity has been recognised in at least one major category.
Speaking on recovery management with integrated backup, business continuity and disaster recovery software Frank Jablonski, director of product marketing for storage management at CA said "Enterprise-class data protection can quickly become too expensive and too complex to manage if you're using too many different 'point' solutions to fulfil all the requirements of practices and regulatory mandates.
"By integrating key recovery management technologies, CA is offering customers the ability to meet their information and application availability challenges while minimising complexity and cost," Frank added.
Many companies have been reluctant to adopt CDP as it only addresses part of their overall recovery management requirements. By integrating CDP with multiple data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery technologies, the new CA bundle will help customers ensure availability and timely recovery of email, database and other business applications across diverse storage infrastructures.
According to Gartner, "CDP will play a role as part of the overall recovery methodology and, just as tiered storage exists for capacity, a hierarchy of recovery that includes traditional backup to tape, backup to disk, CDP, snapshot and replication will emerge."