CA Helps Customers Simplify z/OS Storage Management with New Releases of CA Vantage SRM and CA Vtape.

Optimize Storage Investments Through Proactive Monitoring and Tape Virtualization 

ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA (NYSE: CA) today extended its leadership in mainframe storage management by delivering new product releases that help customers contain costs, streamline complex storage operations, and extend the lifespan of existing storage investments.

As corporate data continues to grow rapidly, so does the cost of tape backup, which remains essential for disaster recovery and long-term data retention. IT organizations also have to manage multiple generations of tape technology, maximize utilization of available capacity, and limit staff time spent on storage management tasks.

The new releases of CA Vantage Storage Resource Manager (CA Vantage SRM) and CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape VTS) address these challenges by enabling customers to protect critical data while reducing z/OS costs.

"IT organizations often must meet escalating business requirements with a fixed mainframe staff and budget," said Stefan Kochishan, director of storage product marketing at CA. "By simplifying storage management, CA has made it easier for customers to execute critical data protection operations without increasing infrastructure investments."

* CA Vantage SRM r12 automates major storage management operations, including critical monitoring and analysis tasks and corrective actions across the z/OS storage environment. It helps ensure continuous job processing by predicting and preventing out-of-storage conditions. It also simplifies management of IBM's DFSMShsm and integrates with CA Disk Backup and Restore for a range of media options to increase personnel productivity and improve storage availability service levels. Additional enhancements help reduce overhead while improving capacity planning and overall resource utilization for a broad spectrum of z/OS storage and media resources.

* CA Vtape VTS r12 reduces the cost of managing tape storage. It uses software virtualization and exploits zIIP specialty engines to free up processor capacity. By utilizing TCP/IP instead of expensive channel extenders, a new Peer-to-Peer Option provides real-time tape mirroring and immediate sharing of virtual tape volumes to disaster recovery or remote sites. Customers can also create and manage a tape-less environment, or share virtual volumes within or between a Sysplex--even if they are using different tape management systems. This lets IT organizations centralize physical tape processing and support remote sites that don't use physical tape.

"CA continues to evolve its mainframe storage management solutions to help organizations like us keep up with relentlessly expanding data protection and storage optimization requirements," said Genaro (Tony) Pinillos, manager of technical support services at UC Davis Medical Center, a major research hospital in California. "CA's new virtual tape and storage resource management capabilities are especially important for containing costs and unifying DASD and tape operations wherever the business needs it. In addition, by increasing tape utilization rates, we can maximize the useful lifespan of our existing tape investments and achieve significant media cost savings."

CA Vtape VTS integrates with the CA Vantage SRM graphical user interface, so that customers can visualize and manage their entire tape operations and virtual tape infrastructure from a single point of control. Both solutions are tightly integrated with CA's complete line of z/OS storage management solutions to help customers drive operational efficiency and optimize utilization of finite z/OS storage resources.

Participation at SHARE

CA is hosting sessions and product demonstrations on CA Vantage SRM r12 and CA Vtape r12 at The SHARE Conference and Trade Show, February 24-29 in Orlando, Fla.

About CA

CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest independent software companies, provides software solutions to unify and simplify[TM] IT management. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage. Founded in 1976, CA serves customers in virtually every country in the world. For more information, please visit www.ca.com.

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