SOUTHFIELD ? Computer Associates International announced that BrightStor ARCserve Backup will provide support for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006, enabling IT organizations to implement extended data protection that is integrated with DPM 2006 technologies.
By adding the high performance disk-to-disk and disk-to-tape backup, recovery and archiving capabilities in BrightStor ARCserve Backup to DPM, customers will be able to safeguard DPM servers and other servers, applications and databases ? facilitating offsite backups and enabling fast restoration of a single file to the entire DPM server.
?Microsoft is pleased to continue to partner with CA to provide our mutual customers with optimal data protection solutions,? said Rakesh Narasimhan, general manager, Windows and Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft Corp. ?The combination of BrightStor ARCserve Backup and System Center Data Protection Manager will offer businesses of all sizes end-to-end storage solutions that are robust, cost effective and truly integrated.?
DPM provides rapid and reliable disk-based backup and recovery for files on Windows servers. BrightStor ARCserve Backup protects critical applications and data for large data centers and individual departments with support for disk technologies, storage area networks and network attached storage environments.
?Microsoft continues to help its customers cope with the rapid growth of data across the enterprise,? said Anders Lofgren, senior vice president of BrightStor storage management at CA. ?By complementing Data Protection Manager 2006?s capabilities with the time-tested backup functionality of BrightStor ARCserve Backup, CA is giving customers an ideal solution for optimizing their data protection operations.?
BrightStor ARCserve Backup will be available for Data Protection Manager 2006 by the end of the year. Pricing starts at $1,770.
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