CA Introduces Simplified Pricing Model, New Suites for CA ARCserve Backup.Speeds Time to Value for Customers and Resellers ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA) announced a simplified pricing model for its industry-leading CA ARCserve Backup solution. The new model significantly eases procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. , implementation, and ownership of CA's industry-leading recovery management technology by making it available in four complete suites. The model also speeds time to value by providing a complete set of tools, agents, and options to protect critical data and applications in a single, highly-economical package. The four suites, each requiring only a single license, are: CA ARCserve Backup File A file on a tape, removable disk or the fixed disk of another computer that is a copy kept for backup purposes. See backup types. Server Suite - which contains everything necessary to back up a file server using any storage configuration (DAS, SAN or NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) or media (disk, tape), whether local or remote. CA ARCserve Backup e-Mail Suite - which contains everything in the File Server suite, plus agents for Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. and IBM/Lotus Notes. CA ARCserve Backup Database Suite - which contains everything in the File Server suite, plus agents for SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , Oracle and Ingres databases. CA ARCserve Backup Application Suite - which contains everything in the File Server suite, plus agents for SharePoint and SAP. The manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) ) for CA ARCserve Backup File Server Suite is $795 per server, excluding maintenance. The other three suites are $1,495. The new model allows customers to freely modify their IT environments without having to purchase or install additional software. For example, a customer can connect an existing server to a SAN or a larger tape library without having to buy licenses for additional CA ARCserve Backup components. Customers can also change applications--such as shifting from Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. to Microsoft Exchange--and use the same CA ARCserve Backup e-Mail Suite. "CA is changing the rules of the game when it comes to value and ease of procurement," said Bob Davis
Backup solutions have historically required customers to piece together recovery management from hundreds or even thousands of separate SKUs. This often forced them to devote significant time and effort to the configuration of their backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. and to relicense if configuration changes were made after the initial purchase. CA's innovative new approach eliminates these IT management headaches--while also offering customers more attractive pricing. "As IT organizations adopt a unified approach to recovery management, where multiple forms of data protection from one vendor are managed from a central console, it has become even more important to consolidate offerings and streamline the purchasing and installation process," said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "CA's suite approach relieves an already overtaxed IT organization from non-strategic tasks and allows them to rapidly ensure the integrity of their recovery management system." CA's new pricing model will also benefit CA Channel Partners by accelerating the sales cycle and eliminating time-consuming configuration tasks. "CA's new simplified pricing makes it much easier for our account executives to specify client requirements, while allowing us to offer extremely competitive pricing on a recovery management solution that is industry leading," said David Casillo, senior vice president of product management at Insight, a leading systems, software and services provider. "Once again, CA has demonstrated that they understand and care about the real-world business challenges that their Channel Partners face every day." Customers currently using CA ARCserve Backup technology can still use the previous pricing model to add individual agents or options to their existing configurations--in addition to using the new model for new servers. CA has also simplified pricing for CA XOsoft WANSync and WANSyncHA by reducing the number of SKUs to just eight. CA XOsoft products are integrated with CA ARCserve Backup enabling customers to select from a continuum of data protection technologies, including high-performance backup, replication, CDP CDP (cytidine diphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Certificate in Data Processing) An earlier award for the successful completion of an examination in hardware, software, systems analysis, programming, management and accounting, , automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. application failover Invoking a secondary system to take over when the primary system fails. Up-to-date copies of all required data and applications are maintained on the secondary system in order to respond immediately if the primary system becomes unusable. Also called "fallover." See replication. , and DR testing. More information about the new suites and new pricing is available at http://www.ca.com/arcserve/suites. About CA CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com. Copyright (c) 2007 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. |
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