Product Advisor | CA ARCserve®: More than Backup

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Welcome to the CA ARCserve Family Product Advisor. This tool will help you quickly and easily discover which of our products best meet your particular needs and goals. Every business needs to find the "Right Tools for the Situation" and based on your input, we may recommend one or more products to help you best protect your systems, applications and data.

The CA ARCserve Family of Products, gives you all the tools you need to take control of your evolving business by delivering total protection, recovery and availability for systems, applications and data.

The CA ARCserve Family of Products is a complete software portfolio that gives you more control over your evolving business by delivering total protection, recovery and availability for systems, applications and data on both physical and virtual servers. We’ve built the CA ARCserve Family of Products to help you address system and data protection challenges, reduce cost, decrease the burden on your staff and maybe help you get a few hours back in your day. The CA ARCserve Family of Products may be purchased individually, or bundled together for your convenience and cost savings.

CA ARCserve^® Backup enables you to meet the evolving needs of your business by delivering total protection for your systems, applications and data. It is the only product on the market that combines innovative data deduplication, integrated backup copy to cloud storage, synthetic full backups, granular restore of applications like active directory, Exchange and SharePoint, infrastructure visualization, and archiving for both physical and virtual servers. CA ARCserve Backup simplifies monitoring and management with detailed storage resource management (SRM) reporting, and a wide range of centralized and easy-to-use management tools, to ensure the integrity and availability of your most important and strategic business asset — your data. Only CA ARCserve Backup provides you with all the tools you need to achieve your goals through more efficient management, reduced storage requirements and proactive problem avoidance for no additional charge – resulting in reduced risk to your business and less disruptions to your personal time.

CA ARCserve^® D2D is a disk-based backup product designed to provide the perfect combination of fast, simple and reliable protection and recovery for all of your business information. CA ARCserve D2D gives you more control over your evolving infrastructure, applications and data through a “set it and forget it” solution that simplifies protecting and recovering your data. The single snapshot backup allows you to restore files, volumes, applications, individual emails, or the entire system to any server in both physical and virtual environments from local disk or off-premise cloud storage. Meet your internal SLAs for recovery time and save money with the only product that has Bare Metal Restore to dissimilar hardware and block-level infinite incremental backups (I2 backups) in one complete package. Patent-pending I2 backup technology means you only need to perform 1 full backup with incremental only from then on saving time, storage space, and network bandwidth over other backup products. And if you are looking to migrate to virtualized servers, the CA ARCserve D2D BMR process makes P2V migration a simple and quick task.

CA ARCserve ^® Central Applications:Deliver greater integration across the CA ARCserve Family of Products while enabling both CA and 3rd party developers to easily add functionality for your CA ARCserve environment. CA ARCserve Central Applications include:

CA ARCSERVE^®CENTRAL PROTECTION MANAGER provides a single web-based console for centralized view and management of all CA ARCserve D2D protected servers and workstations. It includes automated AD discovery, remote deployment, simplified policy-based administration, SRM reporting, status, grouping, search/restore, basic workflow, event logging, and more to simplify management and recovery of servers and workstations across your environment.
CA ARCSERVE^®CENTRAL REPORTING provides a single web-based console for centralized view and management of all CA ARCserve D2D protected servers and workstations. It includes automated AD discovery, remote deployment, simplified policy-based administration, SRM reporting, status, grouping, search/restore, basic workflow, event logging, and more to simplify management and recovery of servers and workstations across your environment.
CA ARCSERVE^®CENTRAL HOST-BASED VM BACKUP uses CA ARCserve D2D to protect a single VMware host environment, performing backup of all VMs via a single-pass backup without having to install ARCserve D2D inside each VM. It uses the vSphere Change Block Tracking (CBT) feature to capture just the changes since the last backup and enables granular recovery of files and folders from each individual VM, and also allows restore of supported applications running within a VM, simplifying protection and recovery of your virtual servers.
CA ARCSERVE^®CENTRAL VIRTUAL STANDBY makes CA ARCserve D2D backups available to run like regular VMware Virtual Disk (vmdk) or Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (vhd) virtual servers. It automatically pre-registers each recovery point (including

CA ARCserve^® Replication, formerly known as CA XOsoft™ Replication, provides an easy way to migrate or copy backups and data offsite to a remote location including a public or private cloud for disaster recovery. It enables quick and easy data consolidation between remote offices and a central site for secure backup and archiving. Use it to migrate systems and data from physical to virtual servers and from old servers to new servers without disrupting the work environment. Its data rewind feature combined with continuous replication offers continuous data protection (CDP) to complement any backup or snapshot solution, helping speed recovery and minimize data loss. CA ARCserve Replication works with both physical and virtual servers and includes automated non-disruptive recovery testing.

CA ARCserve^® High Availability, formerly known as CA XOsoft™ High Availability provides system, application and data high availability along with continuous data protection to help minimize system downtime and data loss. CA ARCserve High Availability includes all CA ARCserve Replication features and adds real-time monitoring, automatic and push-button failover and push-button failback. Monitoring works at both server and application levels so unlike other high availability solutions, CA ARCserve High Availability responds to issues at the application level, does not require a cluster architecture, and protects data on DAS, NAS and SAN.It also provides automated non-disruptive recovery testing to ensure your failover systems and data are ready when you need them. You can deploy your failover resources on-premise, off-premise and in the cloud, or any combination. Both CA ARCserve Replication and CA ARCserve High Availability include a true, unified management console across all operating systems, virtualization platforms and applications.

CA ARCserve^® D2D On Demand Microsoft and CA Technologies, are now offering their customers a way to protect their data safely and affordably with Windows Azure cloud technology and CA ARCserve D2D On Demand hybrid cloud back-up and recovery. The solution provides businesses with a subscription-based, comprehensive data protection service that secures data both on premises and in the Window Azure cloud, enabling companies to achieve agility, gain reliability, increase productivity and reduce their total cost of ownership.

CA Instant Recovery On Demand is based on CA ARCserve High Availability technology and provides a turnkey managed services system, application and data high availability private cloud offering. It provides real time replication to our DR data center resources, monitors both systems and applications, and delivers automatic failover at the first sign of trouble, keeping your business going and employees productive.

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