Customers in the Middle East to Benefit from Essential email Archiving, Discovery and Governance Capabilities

Dubai, UAE 15 May 2006 - CA (NYSE:CA), one of the world's largest IT management software companies, today announced the launch of the CA Message Manager Email archive and management solution, part of the BrightStor Enterprise Storage Solution set. This version of the product will support Arabic and other non-English characters and is aimed at extending CA's leadership in the field of Intelligent Storage Management (ISM).  The announcement, which came at a CA press conference in support of its participation at Storage World Middle East, is expected to aid Middle Eastern companies achieve global compliance and enhance business dealings with globally-compliant companies.

In today's complex global IT environment, concerns are on the rise that regulatory compliance and corporate governance are not met, especially when dealing with organizations that are based in countries having very strict compliance and good governance rules. Based on a recent study by Gartner(1), which makes email retention a mandatory requirement, CA's Message archiving software will assist organizations achieve global compliance, reduce the cost of eDiscovery, as well as email storage through state of the art mailbox management solutions.  CA's Message Manager is a user friendly system, which will also support data in the Arabic language thereby assisting regional companies attain global compliance.

Abdul Karim Riyaz, Regional Director of CA's Storage and Protection Business in the EMEA Eastern markets said: "Regional organisations are under intense pressure to improve management and protect important data -- including emails and unstructured records that comprise a big part of the modern business environment. By enhancing our BrightStor enterprise portfolio with a localized version of CA Message Manager, we can now offer our clients in the Middle East a complete and streamlined approach to manage and protect the wide spectrum of local information assets based on multiple languages across enterprises which will eventually reinforce their global presence."

CA Message Manager provides comprehensive, enterprise message management and archiving for email, instant messages as well as data across leading platforms such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g and Novell GroupWise. These solutions enable customers to cost-effectively address their message management objectives, including record management, discovery, litigation support, compliance, and supervision.

Jason Phippen, Director of Storage Business Unit in EMEA said, "CA's BrightStor Intelligent Storage Management solutions provide a foundation for simplifying the protection and management of business information and storage resources. This enables organizations to cost-effectively align storage assets with business priorities. This year CA is focussed on expanding its leadership in intelligent storage management by widening its portfolio of storage solutions. this year CA plans to add new products to our portfolio based on market needs and feedback from our customers and partners, as well as updating our present product range."

In Support of CA's localised version of Message Manager, Muntaser Ayyash, IT Infrastructure Manager, of PWC Logistics said: "Compliance will play a very important role in business activities in the near future.  PWC has global operations and some of our key clients are from the western markets. We are well aware of the global regulations and will be working closely with CA to see how the new version of CA Message Manager will help PWC attain global compliance standards, especially with the new Arabic function"

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About CA in the Arab Countries & Pakistan
Today CA has a direct presence in Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. With over 100 highly skilled professionals and a four languages 24X7 customer and partner support centre in the region, CA is able to help many large and small organizations to unify and simplify the management of their IT environments securely to drive better business value.

CA customers in the region include Aga Khan University, Bank of Beirut, Dubai Department of Civil Aviation, Emirates Bank International, Etisalat Contact Centre, Public Warehousing Company, Royal Court Affairs in Oman, Salalah Port Authority, Saudi Arabian Airlines, UAE Higher Colleges of Technology and many other organisations large and small.  For more information, please visit www.ca.com/arabworld  

(1) Gartner Research: "Companies must address their e-mail retention and management needs now. Waiting until the company defines a plan for electronic records retention or for e-mail active-archiving technology to mature could place your business at risk, given the regulatory requirements and escalating demands for electronic discovery."

Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Active-Archiving Market, 2005," Carolyn DiCenzo, April 2005.

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