CA’s Instant Recovery On Demand Helps SMBs Meet Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery Requirements
New Turnkey Software-as-a-Service Offering Supports Secure,
Continuous Application and Data Availability without Capital Investment
LAS VEGAS (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 16, 2008 --
CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced CA
Instant Recovery On Demand, a new turn-key business continuity (BC)
and disaster recovery (DR) service that helps small-to-medium businesses
(SMBs) ensure continuous availability of applications and data, even in
the event of a critical systems failure or disaster, without additional
IT infrastructure costs.
Since CA Instant Recovery On Demand is delivered as a turn-key managed
service, it helps SMBs meet their continuous availability needs within
the limits of their staff and budget—an important way to help IT address
business and compliance accountability in a challenging economic
environment.
“SMB IT organizations need an affordable and manageable way to ensure
non-stop business operations and continuous data protection,” said Jon
Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International, 25 year veteran disaster
recovery planner and author of five books on disaster recovery planning.
“By providing a business continuity and disaster recovery managed
service, CA is helping SMB organizations meet all these requirements.”
The new hosted service is sold exclusively through authorized CA
partners and typically implements in less than 24 hours. Now, partners
can offer SMB customers the ability to leverage CA’s award-winning
CA XOsoft High Availability technology via a hosted cloud service,
delivered real-time over the internet. Through this sales and delivery
model, both resellers and their SMB customers benefit from reduced
up-front costs, speeding their time to value.
“The paradox of these tough financial times is that many SMBs mandate IT
to ensure application and information availability, but don’t have the
resources to implement an in-house solution,” said Adam Famularo, senior
vice president and general manager for CA’s Recovery Management and Data
Modeling business unit. “A key differentiator between CA Instant
Recovery On Demand and many other managed BC/DR offerings is that we can
offer them a turn-key solution with no requirement for additional
hardware or software.”
CA Instant Recovery On Demand is tailored exclusively for a channel
sales model and allows partners to offer customers:
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Scalable, continuous data protection that provides instant data
recovery in the event of isolated data corruption episodes
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SaaS-based, real-time replication and data for Windows Servers,
Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft IIS and Oracle
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Application availability via fully automated failover and failback for
file servers, Exchange, SQL, IIS and Oracle
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Disaster recovery site compliance through fully automated DR testing
without disrupting the production environment.
CA Instant Recovery On Demand leverages a SaaS Business Continuity
platform and hosting facilities from CA business partner Geminare
Incorporated.
“Application and data availability is no longer a nice-to-have for a
company, it’s a mandate from management,” said Joshua Geist, CEO of
Geminare Incorporated, a CA business partner specializing in host-based
business continuity services. “With CA Instant Recovery On Demand, IT
can deliver on this directive with a rapidly deployed, enterprise-class
solution without high up-front costs or complication.”
CA Instant Recovery On Demand is available for sale and delivery by
authorized CA
Partners, who can sign up to sell it now in North America and
Germany and in the rest of EMEA and APAC in calendar Q1 and Q2.
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“The opportunity for SaaS providers in the SMB market is astronomical
and the value they can provide their customers is huge,” said David
Dadian, CEO for powersolution.com Inc, a New Jersey-based CA Instant
Recovery On Demand reseller. “Neither the customer or reseller is
investing a lot of capital up front. They can achieve the same results
as a mirrored site at a fraction of the cost. This minimizes cost and
provides for faster and greater ROI.”
“It is important to provide clients with full failover protection for
their environment to avoid disasters, not just be prepared to recover
from them,” continued Dadian. “Because it best provides these
capabilities, the CA XOsoft technology is key to the success of CA
Instant Recovery On Demand as a complete SaaS business continuity
solution.”
“Particularly in today’s economic climate, we are looking to lower the
total cost of technology and eliminate operational headaches for our
customers so that they can focus on their business and get an effective
ROI,” said J. Michael Drake, founder and CEO, master IT, a
Tennessee-based managed services provider. “With CA Instant Recovery ON
Demand, we can provide the business continuity and disaster recovery
capabilities they need, as well as saving them and ourselves any large
start-up costs.”
“I have spoken with several CA XOsoft High Availability customers,
including organizations impacted
by severe weather events in the Gulf Coast, for whom it has been a
lifesaver,” said Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International. “I’m
pleased to see CA responding to the economics of IT in SMB organizations
by taking the model into the clouds.”
About CA Instant Recovery On Demand
CA Instant Recovery On Demand is based on CA XOsoft High Availability,
an award-winning software product that helps ensure 24x7 protection and
availability of key business applications and data, providing
application-aware replication and automatic failover for Microsoft Exchange,
SQL, IIS, SharePoint, Oracle, Blackberry Enterprise Server and File
Servers. Heterogeneous replication support is available
for Linux and UNIX. Implementation, upgrades and DR testing capabilities
are designed to be simple and non-disruptive to business operations. For
more information on CA Instant Recovery On Demand, please visit www.ca.com/instantrecovery.
CA Instant Recovery On Demand is one of three SaaS offerings from CA
announced today. CA On Demand solutions offer industry-leading
functionality with faster implementation times. Customers can achieve
cost savings, realize faster time to value, free up scarce IT resources
for other priorities and reduce risk by leveraging CA’s state-of-the-art
secure hosting facilities. Over 1,000 customers worldwide use CA SaaS
and hosted solutions to improve IT economics. For more information about
CA On Demand offerings, visit www.ca.com/ondemand.
CA Instant Recovery On Demand is another example of how CA Enterprise IT
Management solutions help organizations drive business value from IT and
effectively improve IT economics. With CA solutions in place, such as CA
Instant Recovery On Demand, customers are able to respond more quickly
and efficiently to changing conditions and capitalize on emerging
business opportunities. The solutions CA is announcing at CA World 2008
help lower the total cost of ownership of IT by providing faster
time-to-value and reducing IT costs through better integration,
automation and control.
About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent IT management
software company. 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.
For more information, visit www.ca.com.
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