CA Unwraps New ARCServe for Backup

Computer Associates International (CA) announced this week that version 9 BrightStor ARCserve backup services. Calcium bill ARCserve services on the 9th as a major redesign of its flagship backup product for Windows, Linux and NetWare.

New BrightStor ARCserve services nine ares of a variety of easy-to-use, reliability and scalability improvements. In addition, the calcium that its new version of ARCserve services will ship with a simplified licensing model.

Liff Zhu, vice president of CAs BrightStor brand, in BrightStor ARCserve 9 service innovation user interface makes it easier for first-time and non-administrative users to perform backups. To achieve this purpose, he said that CA has simplified the workflow associated with performing backups or embarking on the rehabilitation of the ARCserve service environment. "The most obvious thing, we understand user interface, and we basically gave us the mandate of the development engineers from the ergonomics of the products very detailed, step by step, to truly understand how users expect." In this regard, confirmed Jiabuliaiersa Midiwa, BrightStor ARCserve services on the 9th beta customers and network administrators and maritime transport equipment, and the Pacific Maritime Association, the user interface, in the latest of the Rev FUNG CA Backup tools to deliver goods. "One of the major changes I see is that interface, it is very easy to use and is more friendly, if you compare [it] with the old version." Zaldivar on BrightStor ARCserve services in 9 new user interface ", more intuitive," and said that, even if the user does not familiar with the functions it is able to quickly get up to accelerate it. "Some people [in our organization] are not really familiar with [BrightStor ARCserve services], they found it very, very easy to use." BrightStor ARCserve services in the nine vessels, and several enhanced reliability. For example, it now supports multiple network interface cards, as a result, backup administrator can manage how data backup network calls. According to CAs liff, eliminating congestion by routing traffic over two backup network. In addition, liff pointed out that it also has practical effect of the increase in ARCserve service flexibility. "You can separate from the flow of data traffic backup a separate network card, which in effect gives you redundant path, in the event of network disruptions." Pacific shipping Zaldivar said that in the testing phase, ARCserve services on the 9th relatively stable than ARCserve services, products in 2000, before it.

CA ARCserve version of the new service, with several new features, including a CD-ROM backup to factories, as well as support for network data management protocol, which, liff said, make it possible to backup Network Attached Storage (NAS) equipment to a tape library in the back, and the other NAS equipment.

"These are functional, it is very important to people, the environment," he said, taking note of enterprise backup windows are shrinking, even as data volume, which means that enterprises must be backed up more and more. "Faster way, using your environment to backup your data to the optical disk system, and then once after the completion of move to the backup tape." Like its predecessors, on the 9th BrightStor ARCserve backup services must be hosted on a window, NetWare, or Linux platforms. But it does include a free agent, pushed a variety of UNIX platforms, including AIX operating system, IBM released HP - the UX from Hewlett-Packard OpenServer and UnixWare from the Santa Cruz Operation irix from Silicon Graphics and Solaris operating SPARC and Solaris systems, Intel Sun Microsystems The ARCserve services licensing model has been substantially restructured, in Version 9. ARCserve services, for example, in 2000, to provide as many as 15 different types of previous versions of the upgrade path, all of which are available at different price points. Liff said that the CA will only provide two upgrade path to the BrightStor ARCserve backup services 9. "Any person ARCserve, 2000 Release 4 can be upgraded to ARCserve services in a nine Price, and any person any other version can upgrade at another price." In addition, liff confirmed that the new customers will pay the same price ARCserve services on the 9th regardless of whether they plan to deploy it on the Windows 2000 server or Windows 2000 servers in the data center, for example. Lofgren Anders, a senior industry analyst and consultant Gigabit Information Group, said ARCserve services 9 should be revised licensing things easier for existing customers, but also to attract new customers. "[Pricing] a common complaint, what you hear from customers, rather than concrete, calcium, [] many times, ordering and pricing and licensing schemes become too complicated. Many times, manufacturers eventually re-adjust their licensing and pricing schemes¡­¡­ to make it easier to understand what [customers] to buy what they are paying the price. " Services in BrightStor ARCserve backup nine todays Windows. NetWare and Linux versions are in the testing phase.