CA Technologies and ExaGrid are pairing their respective solutions, CA ARCserve® D2D image-based backup and recovery software and ExaGrid disk storage and deduplication appliance hardware, to deliver a comprehensive customized solution designed to cut storage requirements and related costs while shortening backup windows, speeding recovery, and delivering more reliable offsite disaster recovery. 

451 analyst Dave Simpson says “To survive the ongoing explosion in data volume, IT organizations must maximize the efficiency with which they protect corporate information assets. This often requires complementary hardware and software such as that being offered by ExaGrid and CA Technologies.”

Most IT organizations face significant challenges backing up complex heterogeneous environments that combine virtual and physical environments. The combination of CA ARCserve D2D and ExaGrid provides a cost-effective solution for these challenges and a superior alternative to slower tape devices – delivering fast backup and recovery and post-process data deduplication to meet resource constraints without affecting backup performance.

According to Chris Ross, vice president of Worldwide Sales for the Data Management portfolio at CA Technologies, customers’ data protection requirements are evolving very quickly. “they want to make sure they get the right mix of functionality – but also efficiency, speed and simplicity – at the right ownership costs,” he adds.