ExaGrid and CA Technologies Team Up to Deliver Highly Scalable Disk Backup and
Recovery for Physical and Virtual Servers
Combination of ExaGrid Disk Backup Appliance and CA ARCserve D2D Software Provides
Fast, Cost-Effective Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
London – July 9, 2013 – CA Technologies and ExaGrid® Systems, Inc. today announced an
agreement to provide mid-market and small enterprise organisations with quicker, more
efficient backup and recovery for both physical and virtual servers.
The companies have teamed up to deliver a comprehensive customised solution – which pairs
CA ARCserve® D2D image-based backup and recovery software and ExaGrid disk storage
and deduplication appliance hardware – that helps slash storage requirements and related
costs while shortening backup windows, speeding recovery, and delivering more reliable
offsite disaster recovery.
“To survive the ongoing explosion in data volume, IT organisations must maximize the
efficiency with which they protect corporate information assets,” said Dave Simpson, senior
storage analyst, 451 Research. “This often requires complementary hardware and software
such as that being offered by ExaGrid and CA Technologies.”
Most IT organisations 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 postprocess data deduplication to meet resource constraints without affecting backup performance.
“Customers’ data protection requirements are evolving very quickly, and they want to make
sure they get the right mix of functionality – but also efficiency, speed and simplicity – at the
right ownership costs,” said Chris Ross, vice president, Worldwide Sales, Data Management,
CA Technologies. “By working with ExaGrid, CA Technologies is enabling its customers to
fulfil their requirements.”
“With data growing exponentially across both physical and virtual servers while IT budgets
remain tight, we are seeing great demand for a simplified solution like this that delivers
reliable, resource-efficient backup and recovery in mixed infrastructure environments,” said
Marc Crespi, vice president, Product Management, ExaGrid. “We look forward to showing
customers the power of a combined ExaGrid and CA ARCserve D2D solution, and how they
can achieve faster recovery of their business systems and the best scalability in the industry
as their needs grow.”
The CA ARCserve D2D software and ExaGrid disk storage appliances are available today
through authorised resellers and service providers.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers
manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services.
Organisations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate
innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data centre to the
cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.
About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built
for backup that leverages a unique architecture optimised for performance, scalability and
price. ExaGrid is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing
zone to permanently shorten backup windows, eliminate expensive forklift upgrades, achieve
the fastest full system restores and tape copies, and rapidly restore files, VMs and objects in
minutes. With offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 6,500 systems
installed at more than 1,700 customers, and more than 320 published customer success stories.
For more information, visit www.exagrid.com.
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