How Can VMware & CA Help Maximize Availability, Business Value & Resiliency of IT Infrastructure?

SOLUTION BRIEF: CA RECOVERY MANAGEMENT
How can VMware and
CA help us maximize
the availability, business
value and resiliency of
our IT infrastructure?VMware Virtual Infrastructure and
CA Recovery Management team up to
deliver higher availability and risk-resistance
for business-critical information and
applications, while lowering management
and operational costs and complexity.
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Challenge Solution Benefits
Your business relies on its IT Your business needs a solution VMware Virtual Infrastructureinfrastructure to effectively that provides robust and cost- and CA Recovery Managementmanage your computing systems effective management of your reduce costs, complexity and riskand critical applications, yet you critical IT assets. CA Recovery by enabling you to implement amust also find innovative ways to Management coupled with disaster recovery solution acrossoptimize your limited resources VMware Virtual Infrastructure a virtualized IT environment. Yourand minimize system downtime provides a best-in-class solution business is protected even when- both scheduled and unplanned. to optimize and manage your IT high cost and complexity makeThe challenge lies in striking the infrastructure and improve traditional business continuityright balance between cost and business continuity. This solution approaches unfeasible. Together,risk as you seek to optimize enables you to virtualize your the CA Recovery Managementyour limited resources while existing technology and resources and the VMware Virtualmaintaining availability of critical to gain efficiencies. In addition, Infrastructure improves opera- systems and applications. you can implement a powerful, tional efficiency and dramaticallymulti-layered business continuity reduces the total cost ofsolution for both your physical ownership by offering a simpleand virtual systems that covers a and flexible business continuitywide range of contingencies. solution.
CA Advantage The combination of VMware Virtual Infrastructure and CA Recovery Management offers the flexibility,functionality and interoperability your enterprise needs to maximize the business value of its ITinvestments. The VMware-CA solution provides comprehensive management and protection ofphysical and virtual servers and the business-critical applications and information they host. Thesolution also enhances your enterprise's abilities to deliver more effective and economical businesscontinuity (BC), disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA). This means your enterprise can bemore agile, disaster-resistant, productive and responsive to both challenges and opportunities. Inaddition, CA Recovery Management includes integrated features for automated DR plan testing, toensure that backed up information can be recovered. The VMware-CA solution also demonstratesand is supported by a strong commitment by VMware and CA to delivering solutions that work forenterprise customers and the channel partners supporting them. That commitment includes arobust ecosystem of shared industry allies and value-enhancing services.
Next Steps Your IT infrastructure is critical to the survival and success of your business. The combined solutionfrom VMware and CA provides essential protection for data and applications while deliveringmaximum business value from your company's IT investments. Visit http://www.ca.com/vmware orcontact your local solution provider today to learn more about how this powerful combination ofsolutions can help secure vital information and continuity of IT resources for your business.
SOLUTION BRIEF: CA RECOVERY MANAGEMENT 1CHALLENGE Getting the Greatest Business Value out of ITVirtualization and Protection: Critical Elements of Effective ResponseAs an IT professional, you know that your business has four critical IT-related requirements.Your IT infrastructure must support the deployment of servers on a stable platform, atreasonable cost, as needed. It must be able to manage all of them, physical and virtual,comprehensively and proactively. It must also be able to deliver the highest levels of protectionfrom disasters and other threats. Finally, it must allow rapid and complete recovery from thosethreats - with no loss of data integrity or business... [download for more]