CA's BrightStor r11.1 enables CA customers in the region to Align Storage Spending With Business Value

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, November 10th, 2004 - Computer Associates, the world's largest management software company, today announced the availability of BrightStor r11.1, a new generation of intelligent storage management solutions that enable enterprises to rigorously safeguard their corporate data assets with greater cost-efficiency than ever before.

"To fully protect the business and achieve regulatory compliance within existing resource constraints, enterprise customers have to bring a new level of precision, automation and financial discipline to their storage management processes," said Ned Jaroudi, regional marketing director for CA in the Arab World.  "CA's BrightStor r11.1 fulfils these critical requirements by streamlining storage operations and allowing those operations to be driven by sound business logic. The breadth of platform and device support that BrightStor r11.1 delivers -- combined with its rich functionality and intelligent storage management capabilities -- makes it a better business value than offerings from VERITAS and EMC."

Built around 13 tightly integrated and enhanced products, BrightStor r11.1 is designed to better align storage spending with business value -- a critical objective for organizations as storage volume continues to grow much faster than storage budgets. By supporting more than 100 storage arrays, tape libraries, SAN switches, servers, operating systems, databases, and applications, BrightStor r11.1 also uniquely helps to ensure the integrity and reliability of data protection across the enterprise.

 "To keep our business functioning smoothly and to protect ourselves from data loss, we have to effectively store and back up a huge number of files that reside on hundreds of machines running different operating systems and that are associated with a broad range of specific applications," Najib Ghanem, IT Manager of Bank of Beirut. "CA's BrightStor storage solution enables us to successfully meet this formidable challenge -- allowing us to minimize business risk while optimizing the total business value returned by our investments in storage infrastructure."

With BrightStor r11.1 solutions, organizations can better leverage their investments in storage infrastructure and devices by managing and protecting greater volumes of data across multiple platforms -- including Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, and mainframe z/OS -- in a common manner. Managers can make informed decisions about resource allocation based on the business value of data assets and specific operational requirements, enabling them to prioritize investments in high-value data. IT organizations can also reclaim unused capacity, increase the efficiency of backup and restore processes, and maximize staff productivity.

BrightStor r11.1 significantly enhances enterprise storage operations by providing common, automated management of resources and processes across the enterprise. 

Key capabilities include:

Cross-platform storage management

BrightStor r11.1 delivers a common view -- including full path visualization and critical path analysis -- across distributed and mainframe assets via integration with BrightStor Storage Resource Manager (BrightStor SRM), BrightStor SAN Manager and BrightStor CA-Vantage SRM. This helps ensure optimum use of enterprise resources and boosts staff productivity. Through close collaboration with major storage hardware manufacturers including EMC, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Network Appliance, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. BrightStor r11.1 enables users to select best-of-breed hardware, while providing the integrated enterprise view of their storage environment that is necessary to optimize resource utilization and minimize operating costs.

Cross-platform backup management

BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1 enables customers to manage backup/recovery operations across heterogeneous environments, improving the efficiency of those operations and helping to ensure effective protection of all critical data assets. Databases and applications supported include Advantage Ingres, DB2, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP R/3 and Sybase.

Enhanced resource management intelligence

Integration between BrightStor SRM and BrightStor ARCserve Backup enables IT managers to make smarter, business-driven decisions about data backup. Managers can better allocate staff resources and storage hardware based on the business value of the data -- thereby reducing costs without compromising protection.

Process automation

BrightStor Process Automation Manager, a new addition to the BrightStor line, enables IT organizations to better automate key storage-related tasks across the enterprise to ensure consistency with best practices and reduce labor-related storage costs. This enhanced automation also reduces the risks associated with manual maintenance.

Optimized availability

The integration of BrightStor High Availability with other BrightStor Data Availability solutions enables customers to leverage advanced automation and intelligence functionality to better protect Windows data and thereby support business continuity and disaster recovery.

Unicenter and eTrust Integration

BrightStor r11.1 provides the additional benefits of CA's Enterprise Infrastructure Management strategy through integration with the company's Unicenter operations management solutions and eTrust security management solutions. This enables storage infrastructures to be managed as an integrated component of the overall enterprise environment, empowering IT to manage the full spectrum of resources that support specific business services and processes in a unified manner. IT organizations can also more effectively and consistently enforce security policies and best practices across the enterprise to protect data from viruses and other threats.

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Note to Editors
Computer Associates International was founded in 1976. The company today operates in more than 100 countries.  CA revenue for fiscal year 2003 was $3.2 billion and the company achieved more than $1 billion in cash from operations for the sixth straight year. Currently, CA is one of the only four independent software vendors in the world to generate more than $1 billion in cash from operations annually. CA has 95 percent of the Fortune 500 as customers, more than 200 patents and 900 more pending. CA is a globally certified ISO 9001:2000 organisation.  

CA users in the Middle East include Emirates Bank International, Dubai Department of Civil Aviation, Etisalat Contact Center, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company, Al Jubail Petrochemical, and Royal Court Affairs in Oman.

About CA
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA), the world's largest management software company, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and operates in more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com or http://www.ca.com/arabworld   

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