PRODUCT BRIEF: CA ARCSERVE BACKUP

CA ARCserve Backup r11.5

CA ARCSERVE BACKUP HELPS PROTECT YOUR ORGANIZATIONS MOST CRITICAL SINGLE RESOURCE, THE INFORMATION THAT DRIVES AND DEFINES YOUR BUSINESS. BY INTEGRATING POWERFUL ANTI-VIRUS AND ENCRYPTION FEATURES WITH COMPREHENSIVE, FLEXIBLE, INTEGRATED AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE DATA BACKUP AND RECOVERY, CA ARCSERVE BACKUP ENSURES THE INTEGRITY AND AVAILABILITY OF YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET DATA.

Overview

Benefits

CA Advantage

Electronically stored data is business-critical information that is vital to every enterprise, regardless of type and size. As a result, the ability to protect that information and to recover lost data rapidly represents some of the greatest business value that IT can provide. CA ARCserve Backup offers backup and recovery features that provide comprehensive, integrated protection of business-critical data, guided by business-defined policies and requirements.

Organizations can mitigate risk and reduce costs with CA ARCserve Backup. This comprehensive, integrated, policy-driven backup and recovery solution protects critical data in the face of multiple threats. This flexible, powerful and straightforward solution can also minimize costly downtime by restoring recovered data rapidly. It also offers an interface that manages backup and recovery tasks with more error-free consistency. This resiliency makes any business more agile and responsive.

CA ARCserve Backup employs innovative, flexible disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup technologies, with best-of-class anti-virus and encryption features. This solution offers unmatched data availability and protection, "right out-of-thebox." CAs solution is also part of a larger vision Enterprise IT Management (EITM). Through EITM CA customers can unify and simplify IT management across their enterprise.

CA ARCserve Backup: Comprehensive, Consolidated Data Protection

Whenever business is deprived from access to its most critical information for long periods of time, that business will wither or die. In many cases, that tolerable period of loss is minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Industry experts tout that only six percent of businesses that suffer a catastrophic loss of data will stay in business. What every business needs is the ability to protect its critical information from the widest possible variety of threats, across every hardware and software platform in the enterprise. CA ARCserve Backup provides this protection by combining innovative data backup and recovery technologies with anti-virus and encryption capabilities that are second to none. These capabilities are unified behind a single user interface that enables the establishment and consistent achievement of aggressive recovery point objectives (RPOs), and recovery time objectives (RTOs), all driven to meet your business policies. CA ARCserve Backup is also designed to integrate smoothly into almost any IT or business environment. The solution supports a broad range of hardware and software platforms, for maximum protection of databases, messaging servers and other business-critical information. It is designed to integrate easily with incumbent management tools and environments, and to deliver maximum business value with minimum operational disruption. Key Capabilities CA ARCserve Backup is designed to enable broad, scalable and high-performance protection of critical business assets, across all leading applications, hardware platforms and operating environments. In addition, the solution offers numerous additional features that mean comprehensive information protection for any enterprise.
CA ARCSERVE BACKUP AND CA XOSOFT WANSYNC INTEGRATION

Enables users to browse and backup replicated data, restore data to the master or replica server, create synthetic full backups, view WANSync reports, and launch the WANSync GUI from within the CA ARCserve GUI. The integration provides a single point of control enabling IT administrators to manage high-performance backup, continuous data protection (CDP), replication, failover and disaster recovery (DR) testing with point-and-click ease.

CA ARCserve Backup supports robust agents designed specifically for each leading application and environment, including Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange Server (including Exchange 2007), SharePoint, and SQL Server, SAP R/3, Sybase and many others. The solution also supports document-level backup of Microsoft Exchange, as well as Single Instance Storage (SIS) and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
EXTENSIVE APPLICATION AND OPERATING ENVIRONMENT SUPPORT PROTECTION FOR ALL LEADING SERVER PLATFORMS CA ARCserve Backup supports Microsoft Windows (including Windows Vista), NetWare, various Linux distributions, UNIX derivatives, IBM AS/400, Apple MAC OS X and VMS. The solution also supports Microsoft Windows 2003 One Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR), for rapid, "bare metal" restoration of Windows servers from tape drives.

2 PRODUCT BRIEF: CA ARCSERVE BACKUP

EXTENSIVE DEVICE AND MEDIA SUPPORT

CA ARCserve Backup supports multiple networkattached storage (NAS) and storage-area networks (SAN) solutions, network interface cards (NICs), and write-once-read-many (WORM) devices. It also integrates with off-site vaulting services for comprehensive, integrated disaster recovery.

STREAMLINED, CONSOLIDATED ADMINISTRATION

CA ARCserve backup includes a powerful, yet straightforward administrative interface that automates and centralizes many data protection tasks. The interface also offers integrated anti-virus protection and extensive reporting options, including real-time backup and restoration statistics via email. CA ARCserve Backup enables bare metal server recovery without requiring operating system reinstallation. It also supports multiplexing and multistreaming features for faster, more efficient backups, virtual machine sessions and staged D2D2T backup for more rapid backup and restoration. (See Figure A below.)

INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS BENEFIT

FIGURE A

CA ARCSERVE BACKUP DISK STAGING

CA ARCserve backup disk staging functionality allows policy-based movement of backup data from disk to tape.

PRODUCT BRIEF: CA ARCSERVE BACKUP 3

CA ARCserve Backup combines flexibility, functionality and power in ways that deliver significant business benefits. Key features and benefits are summarized in Figure B below.

FIGURE B

CA ARCSERVE BACKUP KEY FEATURES AND BENEFIT

DESCRIPTION FUNCTION FEATURES BENEFITS

Protection of Critical Application Data

Extensive Operating Platform and Application Support

Application-specific agents to support all the leading applications, such as Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Exchange including Exchange 2007, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle, Lotus Domino, SAP R/3, Sybase and many others. Agents for Microsoft Windows (including Windows Vista), NetWare, Linux, UNIX, AS400, MAC OS X and VMS. Provides optimized document-level backup and restore of Microsoft Exchange environments. Single Instance Storage (SIS) support helps ensure that only single copies of duplicate attachments are backed up. Includes out-of-the-box support for any application that supports Microsoft VSS interface. All files, even those locked by running applications can be successfully backed up. Allows users to use disk technology as an intermediate step in the backup process.

They help ensure data integrity by protecting the transaction log, archive log and journal files along with the data, and also allows advanced operations such as "tablespace" backup and restore.

Protection for all your Platforms

Remote backups running all leading operating systems.

Microsoft Exchange Advanced Backup and Restore Support

Improves backup and restore performance as well as reducing backup media usage.

VSS Snapshot Support

Provides "zero impact" backup and very fast restore capabilities.

Open File Agent

No application or backup downtime.

High Performance Backup and Restore

Integrated Backup to Disk

Helps ensure reduced backup and restore time as well as higher success rate for backups.

4 PRODUCT BRIEF: CA ARCSERVE BACKUP

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTION

FEATURES

BENEFITS

Multiplexing Capabilities

Enables up to 32 jobs to write to the same tape media simultaneously.

Reduces backup window and makes efficient use of tape libraries and media. Reduces backup time while protecting consistency of the data.

Multistreaming

Allows backing up of large databases to multiple tape drives simultaneously. Allows servers to be recovered from catastrophic failures quickly and easily. Common data protection functions can be run directly from the command line interface. Integration with industry leading CA Anti-Virus product. Extensive list of predefined reports, including real-time Backup/Restore. Localized in most common European, Asian and South American languages. Multiple platforms (such as UNIX, Linux and Windows) can share tape libraries and other storage devices on the same SAN. Includes support for a tape library with one drive and unlimited slots.

Bare Metal Recovery

No need to reinstall operating system to recover the server.

Ease of Deployment and Administration

Command Line Interface

Easily integrates with other applications.

Integrated Antivirus Capabilities

Ensures the backed up data is reliable and virus free. Provides valuable information about backup and restore operations. Provides same support for local operating systems.

Extensive Reporting Capabilities

Multiple Language Support

Extensive Device and Media Support

Cross-Platform SAN Support

No need to logically partition or zone the device, reducing cost and management overhead.

Small Library Support

Improves out-of-thebox experience for simple autoloaders.

PRODUCT BRIEF: CA ARCSERVE BACKUP 5

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTION

FEATURES

BENEFITS

NDMP Support

Backup/Restore to tape drives and libraries attached directly to NAS devices. Three-way NDMP support is also included. Multiple NIC cards can be installed to create a separate storage network without the costs associated with deploying a SAN. Provides advanced media management for Backup servers.

Easy to support NAS devices for storage consolidation.

Multiple NIC Support

Helps avoid data bottlenecks and improve backup performance.

Off-Site Vaulting Integration

Integrates smoothly with your off-site vaulting provider (such as Iron Mountain and others). Helps to meet legal compliance requirements for data integrity. Supports high-end libraries.

WORM Device Support

CA ARCserve Backup supports a variety of write-once-read-many (WORM) devices. Through its corresponding agents, enables you to use these advanced libraries to protect your entire infrastructure.

StorageTeks ACSLS and IBM 3494 Libraries Support

The Bottom Line: More Availability, Productivity and Reliability

By offering broad and comprehensive protection to a variety of business-critical data from a wide range of threats, CA ARCserve Backup makes that data easily available and accessible. This enables businesses to withstand threats and to recover quickly and completely from disasters. Businesses become more resilient, and their employees and partners more productive. These benefits translate directly into higher levels of customer, partner, and worker satisfaction, and of value creation and revenue generation. CA ARCserve Backup can improve the actual and perceived business value of enterprise IT investments, by protecting the data those investments require to function.

6 PRODUCT BRIEF: CA ARCSERVE BACKUP

The CA Advantage
As you can see, CA ARCserve Backup offers an unparalleled combination of functionality, flexibility and unmatched, "out-of-the-box" protection of business-critical data for enterprises of every size and type. In addition, the solution is supported by CA a long-time market leader in IT-enabled business solutions. CA ARCserve Backup is both a clear example and a critical element of CA's unique vision of EITM. Under this vision, CA focuses on helping you to unify and simplify management of your enterprise's IT resources, in ways that maximize their value to your business. And like its other solutions, CA ARCserve Backup is built for easy integration and interoperability with other management tools, from CA and other vendors. In addition, all CA solutions are supported by a broad, skilled ecosystem of industry partners, and by the power and talent of CA Technology Services and CA Education. These strengths mean that you will always have access to help with your data protection or IT management challenges, for today and tomorrow.

Next Steps
You know how critical your data is to your business and what losing that data can mean. You know that CA ARCserve Backup offers comprehensive, consolidated, flexible and powerful backup and recovery features that can help you protect that data. And you know that protecting that data means greater agility and productivity for your enterprise and other benefits for your company, its employees and its partners. All you need now is to learn how quickly and easily CA ARCserve Backup and CA can help you and your enterprise meet your specific data protection needs. To learn more, and to see how CA software solutions enable organizations to unify and simplify IT management for better business results, visit ca.com/products

Copyright 2007 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

PB05ARCBK01E MP316440607

Learn more about how CA can help you transform your business at ca.com