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Maximizing IT Business Value: How Can Vendors Help?
Multiple factors are buffeting your enterprise IT infrastructure and putting increasing pressure on those who manage them. Among these are ever-increasing competition, continuously evolving requirements for compliance with regulations and industry standards and the constant drumbeat of demand for greater security of IT resources and intellectual property (IP). In addition, increasing use of the Internet and the Web, and of technologies such as serviceoriented architectures (SOAs) and software as a service (SaaS), make infrastructures more flexible and dynamic — and more challenging for you to manage.
Against this backdrop is a sobering reality:
- Outage Impact By some estimates, as many as 20 percent to 25 percent of businesses that experience a significant disaster or prolonged outage never recover, failing within two to five years of the incident. This places an increasingly high premium on business continuity (BC), disaster recovery (DR) and resiliency, joining high availability (HA) and security as demands on IT infrastructure management efforts.
- IT Resource Utilization Most server utilization falls into the 10 percent range, providing limited value for already stretched IT budgets. Rushing headlong into server consolidation initiatives often introduces management and security issues that further complicate your job.
- Security Ensuring data integrity is no longer limited to protecting your IT infrastructure against outside intruders. In today's regulatory environment, with the need to keep accurate records safe indefinitely, security also means ensuring the integrity of your valuable data against corruption from a variety of sources — from physical degradation to malicious attacks. As an enterprise IT decision-maker, you understand that you cannot address these challenges with disparate, isolated and tactical technology-focused responses. Instead, you must craft and deploy business-driven, coherent, architectures and proactive strategies for addressing these and other challenges, in ways that reduce costs and risks while maximizing business value. Where solutions are concerned, no one vendor can do it all. Regardless of the breadth and depth of any one vendor's experience or solutions portfolio, that vendor needs allies to deliver truly effective, comprehensive and sustainable solutions to these critical challenges.
The VMware-CA Alliance: A Powerful Response to Difficult
Challenges
VMware and CA have helped enterprises like yours rise successfully to such challenges since 2003. The companies have developed and delivered integrated solutions that deliver both immediate and sustained business benefits, ranging from lower operational costs and risks to greater business resiliency and agility. The companies also jointly test and validate our combined solutions, and collaborate on marketing, sales, services and training. This enables representatives from both companies to "speak with one voice" when discussing how VMware and CA solutions, together, can address your business challenges effectively.
For example, many VMware virtual environments take advantage of the specific management capabilities of VMware and CA software. These capabilities enhance the discovery, visualiza - tion or optimization that is especially challenging in virtual environments. In some cases, either VMware or CA products provide the "best-of-breed" capability or, in other cases, the combination of CA and VMware products provide a superior, comprehensive solution for the management of VMware environments, resulting in lower operational costs and a more dynamic IT infrastructure.
In its Research Brief, “VMware Infrastructure 3 — The Marriage of Server Virtualization with Business Continuance,” technology analysts The Taneja Group lauded VMware Infrastructure, for its integrated support for BC, DR and HA. “The virtualized world needs BC features just as much as the traditional physical topologies of today's data center. Server virtualization dramatically simplifies and in some cases improves the efficiency of traditional data protection, DR and availability technologies.”
CA Recovery Management complements and extends the features and benefits of VMware Infrastructure. CA Recovery Management unifies robust, proven technologies behind a single, simplified interface, to deliver comprehensive, integrated protection and recovery features for physical and virtual enterprise servers, applications and information. CA Recovery Management combines proven, powerful solutions — CA ARCserve® Backup and CA XOsoft™ High Availability.
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