What's cooking at CA

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MIKE KARP ON STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE
07/14/05
Today's focus: What's cooking at CA

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In this issue:

* CA's summer releases of storage offerings for SMBs and
  enterprises
* Links related to Storage in the Enterprise
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Today's focus: What's cooking at CA

By Mike Karp

Today we will look at the products Computer Associates is
rolling out this summer, and align them for you according to the
various markets CA expects them to serve.

Expect the next general release of BrightStor - Revision 11.5 -
to hit the streets sometime in September, although it is likely
that you or some of your friends may already have seen the beta
releases.

CA sees the main storage challenges for smaller businesses as
business continuity - particularly the protection of Microsoft
Exchange, file servers and SQL servers, ease of use, and ease of
deployment. For this user segment the company offers the
BrightStor ARCserve Backup Suite (backup and recovery for
Windows, Linux, NetWare, Unix, laptops and desktops) and the
High Availability Suite (data replication that allows a single
secondary server to back up multiple primary servers). Both are
designed for companies with a simple infrastructure and a staff
of generalists.

For small and midsize businesses, CA's products focus on cost
control, risk mitigation and business continuity, so the company
has added BrightStor SRM (for managing data security, space and
growth concerns across heterogeneous environments) and
BrightStor SAN Manager (modules for storage-area network
design, discovery, security, provisioning and "business-centric
management").

When it comes the enterprise, which for a long time has been
CA's main stock in trade, CA has lined up a number of high-value
services that it feels will appeal to managers of sophisticated
IT operations. These include integrated management of several
aspects of storage, enterprise application support extending
across desktops, laptops, distributed servers and mainframes,
and new licensing and pricing structures so that a company's
investment in CA products scales economically as their
management needs grow.

When your CA rep next lands on your doorstep, expect to be shown
the new suites that CA has put together. The first of these is
the Storage Management Suite, a bundle that includes
Brightstor's Storage Resource Manager, the SAN Manager, the SAN
Designer and the Process Automation Manager, all collectively
aimed at providing asset management, asset utilization, and
growth management to help you meet your SLAs. The Data
Availability Suite contains Brightstor Storage Resource Manager,
ARCserve Backup, ARCserve Backup for laptops and desktops, and
ARCserve High Availability. The contents of these bundles are
all still available as individual products, but expect to see
some aggressive pricing if you are interested in the whole
package.

Managing most (all?) of this will be the BrightStor Storage
Command Center, a single console from which a manager can look
at all of an enterprise's storage assets. This will be of
particular interest to those of you who want to oversee your
storage assets, capacity, health and data protection from one
dashboard that offers both real-time and historical analysis of
what is going on. A particularly useful feature is likely to be
the ability to understand up front what business processes are
going to be affected if a device fails.

Expect the Storage Command Center to be integrated with CA's
systems management software soon, along with the network and
security infrastructures some time down the line.

If all of this really does decrease the cost and complexity of
managing your storage, then good for CA and good for you! Now is
the time for the world's fifth largest software company to show
the world what it's got.
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To contact: Mike Karp

Mike Karp is senior analyst with Enterprise Management
Associates, focusing on storage, storage management and the
methodology that brings these issues into the marketplace. He
has spent more than 20 years in storage, systems management and
telecommunications. Mike can be reached via e-mail
<mailto:mkarp@enterprisemanagement.com>.
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