CA announces new versions of storage resource management software.

Worldwide Computer Products News-17 March 2009-CA announces new versions of storage resource management software(C)1995-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

CA Inc (Nasdaq:CA), an independent IT management software company, announced on Monday (16 March) new versions of its storage resource management software for mainframe and distributed systems.

According to the company, CA SRM r 11.7 provides centralised management of UNIX, Linux, NetWare and Windows-based storage resources across the enterprise, enabling IT staff to more efficiently allocate capacity, monitor usage, define and enforce policies and troubleshoot problems. The new version facilitates the management of environments with large numbers of virtual server instances through detailed reports about storage capacity associated with virtual hosts and features new management tools.

Additional enhancements in the solution include multi-path I/O support that helps IT staff reduce downtime and solve the performance problems that can result from I/O bottlenecks. In addition, enhanced Microsoft cluster server support shows how shared storage resources are used by clustered servers, helping IT staff to leverage clustering for high availability and performance.

In addition, CA Vantage SRM r12 SP2 automates major storage management operations, including monitoring and analysis tasks and corrective actions across the IBM z/OS storage environment. It helps enable continuous job processing by predicting and preventing out-of-storage conditions. New audit functions allow IT staff to locate data sets that are not being backed up in accordance with corporate policies, which helps improve data protection and adherence to internal storage requirements.

The new release also offers real-time alerting to facilitate responsiveness to changing conditions that can threaten the availability of key applications. In addition, support for CA and third-party solutions facilitates management operations that involve viewing storage in the broader context of other infrastructure resources and the business applications they support.

Both products operate under a common user interface, enabling customers to visualise and manage their storage infrastructure from a single point of control, the company said.

No financial details were disclosed.

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