When the infrastructure reached a critical mass running 40 VMWare Servers, Lotus Domino and Oracle over a total of 10+TB, La Perla was prompted to review the overall CA ARCserve implementation to validate its future implementation.
“We have expressed our concerns directly to CA, and we found high skills people able to prove us that ARCserve is actually a product adapt for our needs”
“The CA Arcserve solution, shown that the system can grow with us, support us in all evolution we have had in years. So it’s a solution that I would highly recommend”
— Mauro Ruscelli, IT infrastructure and security manager at La Perla - Italy


We were looking for an easy, cost-effective and powerful tool to ensure our Business Continuity. With ARCserve D2D we can recover not only physical but virtual servers in minutes, ensuring that our just-in time 24x7 logistic processes are recovered in a short time-frame to fulfill the service to our automotive OEM customers. D2D is the best alternative choice to a more expensive and complex architecture high availability solution, protecting our windows servers and our key workstations from disaster.
— Albert López, IT Manager, NIfCO PRODUCTS ESPAÑA

  Since implementing CA ARCserve as the primary disaster recovery solution to help ensure the availability of key business systems in our highly virtualized environment, we’ve reduced our recovery time from more than three days to less than four hours. We find the flexibility, intuitiveness, the centralized architecture, and rich reporting of CA ARCserve r16 to be especially valuable as the sophistication and complexity of our environment continues to evolve.

— Prashanth Thirumlai, IT infrastructure manager at The Haskell Company

 

 

  Continental Express has been using CA ARCserve Backup for over 3 years to protect both our physical and virtual servers. ARCserve has helped us reduce recovery times to less than 5 minutes and has also been critical in our management of data growth. If the increase in size and complexity of data isn't managed then it can lead to compliance issues and data loss, but having a backup system like ARCserve is like having reliable insurance for the critical data of the organization.

— Ron Koontz, IT Manager, Continental Express

Backup and data replication are key components of our business continuity plan. The backup and replication tools in the CA ARCserve r15 family suit our requirements perfectly, offering us a centralised data management solution. Besides this, CA ARCserve Backup is user-friendly which can be easily implemented by IT, especially as our IT team is growing with off-shore resources, and these ARCServe characteristics have helped us to delegate easily some operational tasks to offer the best support to our developers
— Jesús Albi, Technical Infrastructure Manager, Alnova, a company of Group Accenture

Given our finite resources, we’re looking to get reliable backup and restore functionality from a product that is simple to use and able to handle technical nuances without a fuss. We are very impressed by the streamlined interface and Web 2.0 capability of CA ARCserve D2D, as well as its flexible bare-metal restore capability, which gets the job done right the first time and without a lot of configuration complexity or second-guessing.
— Eric Evans, communications coordinator at Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation

Maxwell Air Force Base is a long-time customer of CA ARCserve Backup, which is truly the best product on the market for fast and reliable data protection - an absolute necessity as we support critical U.S. institutions like the Pentagon. We rely on CA ARCserve Backup to achieve our rigorous compliance standards, leveraging it to create daily, weekly, and monthly backups to tape for archival recordkeeping. The product has helped us cut our backup window in half, and we are continually impressed with the level of customer service we receive from the support and sales team.

— Carlton Thomas, Maxwell Airforce Base
As one of the only backup and recovery products on the market to protect Microsoft Exchange 2010, CA ARCserve Backup r15 proved to be a lifesaver for Aegistech (formerly known as Aegis Software Inc). Building on the strengths of
the previous CA ARCserve Backup versions, we have relied upon to keep our
business up and running for a decade, r15 is extremely powerful yet easy
to use – it just works.
— Aaron Laskowski, Senior Systems Architect, Aegistech Inc.

CA has taken ARCserve Backup to yet another level with this new release, continuing to add very useful features, while improving ease-of-use and performance. The improvements in user-friendliness and automation for daily maintenance tasks, as well as new alerts and features that help optimize backup scheduling, reaffirm CA ARCserve as the best way for us to ensure reliable backup and recovery of files, email and video across our physical and virtual servers.
— Kernel Thomas, manager of networking services for TheStreet.com

We are delighted with the new features we tested in CA ARCserve High Availability r15. Powerful facilities like Offline Synchronization and Full System High Availability will help customers maintain the integrity and availability of applications with minimal strain on resources. By helping us test our DR setup without business disruption, the automated DR testing feature is also very valuable, while Continuous Data Protection capabilities establish a highly reliable DR environment with very, very minimal difference between primary and secondary data.
— Srikanth Subramanian, systems manager at Sify Technologies Limited

CA ARCserve Backup r15 packs a lot of flexible features and functionality into a very easy-to-use package. We’re particularly impressed with its recoverability and the granular restore capabilities for Active Directory, which are huge considerations as we look to consolidate our point products and settle on a single backup and recovery solution.
— Sal Rando, lead systems operator for the Fashion Institute of Technology

Customers are increasingly expressing the need for a lightning-fast backup and recovery tool that is easy to operate, extremely reliable and technically flexible. CA has found that sweet spot in the impressive new CA ARCserve D2D, with an intuitive Web 2.0 user interface that enables administrators to set up and perform backups in minutes, and quickly recover data in multiple formats-all with the flexibility to conduct bare metal restores on hardware that can be very different than the source system.
— Kai Wittenburg, CEO of neam IT-Services

After testing the CA ARCserve Backup r15 beta, the new benefits became obvious, starting with significant improvement in backup throughput and smaller backup windows. In addition, while improved management capabilities are sure to make our lives easier as well, we liked the enhanced interface and visualization the most, giving us a new level of control over our backup environment.
—Darren Ong, system engineer at Maxmulia Holdings Sdn Bhd.

Like many organizations, we rely heavily on email systems to conduct our day-to-day business, and our users expect nothing less than 24x7 availability. With support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, CA ARCserve High Availability r15 delivers automated failover after unplanned outages that provides the system uptime our users demand, and without unnecessary complexity.
— David Jao, director of Corporate Information Technology at Hazen and Sawyer, P.C.

For more than 5 years, Clintrak has faithfully relied upon CA ARCserve Backup to protect mission-critical systems. For our hybrid environment, which includes both VMware and Citrix XenServer, CA ARCserve Backup provides us with a single easy-to-use solution to seamlessly manage all our virtual and physical needs. In addition to the built-in data deduplication capabilities that have slashed our storage space requirements, new features in r15 such as enhanced SRM reporting have shown us how to be more aware and more careful about how we perform backup processes across our environment.
— Erik Kos, Clintrak, network engineer

It's critical that our backup and recovery solution seamlessly supports our physical and virtual server environment. In CA ARCserve Backup r15, infrastructure visualization and data deduplication capabilities give us insight to quickly manage our environment while reducing backup windows and expenses.
— Jonathan Stewart, systems administrator at the Visiting Nurse Association of
Central New York, Inc.
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