CA to Deliver Wide-Ranging Support for Microsoft Virtualization Products

Released on: September 8, 2008, 6:51 am

Press Release Author: Computer Associates (CA)

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Enterprise IT Management Solutions Help Manage, Govern and
Secure Microsoft’s Virtualized Infrastructures

Press Release Body: DITTON PARK, UK, 8th September 2008 – In tandem with Microsoft’s
“Get Virtual Now” event, CA (NASDAQ: CA) today announced its intent to provide
broad-based support for Microsoft’s virtualization technology across its Recovery
Management, Virtualization Management, Security and Systems Management products.
This support will help Microsoft customers to effectively manage, govern and secure
even the most complex virtualized environments.

“Virtualization technology can both reduce cost and improve service. In order to
receive these significant benefits, IT staff require seamless management across
complex physical and virtualized infrastructures,” said Louis Blatt, senior vice
president for Strategy and Business Development at CA. “CA\'s planned support for
Microsoft’s new Virtualization 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 virtualized 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. Other CA products that plan to support Microsoft
virtualization technology in the future include:

• CA Advanced Systems Management, which is planned to support Windows Server
2008 Hyper-V management, is a vendor and platform-neutral solution that enables
service availability by streamlining the management of complex physical and virtual
environments.

• CA Access Control is planned to include Hyper-V support and mitigate several
of the security risks common to virtualization. The support will focus on protecting
the virtualization resources of Hyper-V through the separation of duties of
privileged or shared accounts and providing consistent access control policies,
resource protection, and entitlement reporting across the Hyper-V host and the
various guest operating systems that can run on it.

• CA Network and Systems Management, which has been certified to support
Windows Server 2008 management, is planned to maintain the availability and
performance of business-critical services by providing centralized management of
heterogeneous IT infrastructures.

• CA XOsoft Replication and High Availability currently supports replication
and failover of guest operating systems residing in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment.
Future support will focus on enabling more cost-effective business continuity,
continuous application availability and verifiable disaster recovery of virtual
servers by running at the Hyper-V hypervisor level.

“Our customers need to apply virtualization technologies broadly across their IT
infrastructure to gain important improvements in efficiency, flexibility, continuity
and agility,” said David Greschler, director of integrated virtualization strategy,
Microsoft Corp. “CA\'s broad support of our desktop-to-datacenter virtualization
strategy will help them achieve this goal.”

Microsoft’s “Get Virtual Now” event today is a kickoff of its global event series
and communicates its virtualization product milestones.


About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent IT management software company.
With CA\'s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can
more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and
sustain competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.ca.com.

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