CA to deliver wide-ranging support for Microsoft virtualisation products
ConvergenceAsia staff
10/09/2008

In tandem with Microsoft’s “Get Virtual Now” event, IT management software company CA announced its intent to provide broad-based support for Microsoft’s virtualisation technology across its Recovery Management, Virtualisation Management, Security and Systems Management products. Microsoft’s “Get Virtual Now” event is a kickoff of its global event series which communicates its virtualisation product milestones.

This support will help Microsoft customers to effectively manage, govern and secure even the most complex virtualised environments.

Virtualisation technology can both reduce cost and improve service. In order to receive these significant benefits, IT staff require seamless management across complex physical and virtualised infrastructures, said Louis Blatt, senior vice president for Strategy and Business Development at CA. “CA's planned support for Microsoft’s new virtualisation products is expected to deliver this strategic capability.”

Using familiar interfaces and common management consoles, Microsoft is providing a set of technologies to enable an end-to-end virtualised infrastructure. CA's solutions are being engineered to provide essential functionality to cost-effectively maintain the business continuity, availability, performance and security of this foundation and the business services that it supports.

CA ARCserve Backup, which has achieved Windows Server 2008 certification, now supports virtual servers for file system, SQL Server and Exchange Server servers using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, providing automated data protection and rapid recovery management.

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