CA Technology Brief Sample

Disaster recovery describes the backup and recovery processes that are used to protect computing environments against the loss of data or services that are caused by a catastrophic event or natural disaster. After such events, you must get your systems back online quickly. CA ARCserve Backup r12 provides several new disaster recovery enhancements, including an easy-to-use Disaster Recovery wizard. Together with the replication and application failover functionality in CA XOsoft Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability, and the integrity testing features in CA XOsoft Assured Recovery, these tools enable you to recover servers, applications, and data swiftly and effectively.

CA ARCserve Backup, CA XOsoft Replication, and CA XOsoft High Availability provide the following disaster recovery benefits: • Simple disaster recovery tools that do not require skilled administrator input. • Manual or automatic application failover, with easy-touse wizard-based configurations for common applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and IIS. • Combined backup and replication tools to backup data from replica servers without affecting live production servers. • Ability to test replica servers and failover funcitions, without interrupting live production servers. • Ability for users to recover their own Microsoft Exchange data tools.