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New Releases, Extensive Device and Platform Support Enable Customers to Align Storage Spending With Business Value
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) today announced the availability of BrightStor r11.1, a new generation of intelligent storage management solutions that enable enterprises to rigorously safeguard their corporate data assets with greater cost-efficiency than ever before.
Industry analysts estimate that corporate data is growing at a rate of 50-70 percent annually, and the need to store this information presents a challenge for organizations struggling to do more with less.
Built around 13 tightly integrated and enhanced products, BrightStor r11.1 is designed to better align storage spending with business value — a critical objective for organizations as storage volume continues to grow. By supporting more than 100 storage arrays, tape libraries, SAN switches, servers, operating systems, databases, and applications, BrightStor r11.1 also uniquely helps to ensure the integrity and reliability of data protection across the enterprise.
“To fully protect the business and achieve regulatory compliance within existing resource constraints, enterprise customers have to bring a new level of precision, automation and financial discipline to their storage management processes,” said Chua Meng Pin, CA’s divisional SVP — channel and storage business division, Southeast Asia. “CA’s BrightStor r11.1 fulfills these critical requirements by streamlining storage operations and allowing those operations to be driven by sound business logic.”
BrightStor r11.1 is a key piece to CA’s “management on-demand” strategy and CA aims to remedy complexity by helping customers streamline their infrastructure and provide IT on-demand, driving down costs.
“Resource utilization hasn’t been the greatest strength in the storage industry. A lot of customers have solved problems by throwing more disk drives and that’s why we’ve ended up here. The problem does not go away and the complexity grows exponentially,” added Mr. Chua.
With BrightStor r11.1 solutions, organizations can better leverage their investments in storage infrastructure and devices by managing and protecting greater volumes of data across multiple platforms — including Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, and mainframe z/OS — in a common manner. Managers can make informed decisions about resource allocation based on the business value of data assets and specific operational requirements, enabling them to prioritize investments in high-value data. IT organizations can also reclaim unused capacity, increase the efficiency of backup and restore processes, and maximize staff productivity.
“To keep our business functioning smoothly and to protect ourselves from data loss, we have to effectively store and back up a huge number of files that reside on thousands of machines running different operating systems and that are associated with a broad range of specific applications,” said Mohamad Alkazaz, IT and telecommunications manager at Saint-Gobain Crystals, a subsidiary of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, one of the top 100 industrial companies in the world. “CA’s BrightStor r11.1 enables us to successfully meet this formidable challenge — allowing us to minimize business risk while optimizing the total business value returned by our investments in storage infrastructure.”
BrightStor r11.1 significantly enhances enterprise storage operations by providing common, automated management of resources and processes across the enterprise.
Pricing and Availability
BrightStor r11.1 solutions are available under CA’s FlexSelect licensing program. CA is also offering BrightStor Managed Capacity Pricing, a simplified licensing model based on terabyte capacity that eliminates the need to track server- or application-based licenses. CA Technology Services and business partners offer complementary service offerings. More information is available at http://ca.com/brightstor.
For more information, please contact:
Chidchanok Uthaigorn, +66 2 636 2467 or [email protected]
Prinda Nilthachan, +66 2 716 5246 ext. 120 or
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