ARCserve Backup
CA Technologies ARCserve MSP Program 3.0 Sets New Standard for Simplicity and Service Provider Enablement
CA Technologies ARCserve MSP Program 3.0 Sets New Standard for Simplicity and Service Provider Enablement Extends Leadership in Data Protection Offerings for MSPs With Unmatched Licensing Flexibility, Expanded Technology and New Promotional Resources ISLANDIA, NY, February 13, 2013—CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the third major release of its industry-leading Managed Service Provider (MSP) licensing [...]
CA ARCserve r16.5 Expands Protection of Virtual Servers, Simplifies Essential Backup and Disaster Recovery Operations
CA ARCserve r16.5 Expands Protection of Virtual Servers, Simplifies Essential Backup and Disaster Recovery Operations New Remote Virtual Standby, Host-Based VM Backup Replication and Cascading Failover Reduce Business System Downtime ISLANDIA, NY, February 21, 2013—CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced new enhancements to its CA ARCserve® data protection solution that simplify backup and disaster recovery for physical [...]
Rethinking Backup in a Multifaceted World
Mike Crest, General Manager of Data Management, CA Technologies, talks about rethinking backup in a multi-faceted world, and finding a better way to deal with the complexity in IT. Rethinking Backup in a Multifaceted World February 21st, 2013 | Author: Channelnomics Perspectives It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when backup was [...]
Whats’ New in CA ARCserve Backup r16
CA ARCserve Backup r16’s new features combine synthetic full backups, enhanced disaster recovery with WinPE , integrated backup copy to disk, tape or cloud storage, and file archiving for both physical and virtual servers. New archiving frees up expensive primary storage, reduces backup time and improves efficiency, while proactive monitoring and management in a centralized [...]
How’s your DR/BC testing going?
…or is it going at all? I want to tell a story that, to this day, impresses upon me the importance of solid DR/BC testing. A customer in Alabama that I spent considerable time with (a very large insurance company) invited me in to talk about their DR/BC solution. In a meeting with the CEO and [...]
Beta Announcement for CA ARCserve® D2D r16 for Windows
CA Technologies is pleased to invite you to participate in the CA ARCserve® D2D r16 Beta Program. Your participation offers you the ability to validate CA ARCserve® D2D r16 in your own environment, allowing you to give us feedback on product enhancements, quality, and the Beta Program. Your contribution to this critical product test cycle [...]
CA ARCserve® D2D R16 Alpha program
CA ARCserve® D2D R16 Alpha program CA Technologies is pleased to invite you to participate in the CA ARCserve® D2D R16 Alpha program. Your participation offers you the ability to validate CA ARCserve® D2D R16 Alpha in your own environment, allowing you to give us feedback on product enhancements, quality, and the Alpha/Beta Program. Your [...]
ARCserve Backup R16 Beta Refresh now available
We’re happy to announce that the ARCserve Backup R16 Beta refresh is now available. All active Beta participants will receive an email with the direct download information. Those who wish to be involved in the ARCserve Backup R16 Beta, but have not yet registered may do so at: https://supportconnectw.ca.com/cso/beta/arcsrv16/arcsrv16beta-quest.asp –PLH–
Easy VM Backup and Recovery Setup
Hello fellow ARCserve Backup fans, I’ve received a few questions about preparing the Backup Server for backing up VMs. I will try to address the biggest concern in this blog entry. Question: How do I get the best performance? Answer: The best performance will be achieved by performing backups and restores over your Fibre or [...]
Does the Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server include the SQL Agent
A question that I get from time to time is if the SharePoint Agent contains the SQL Agent, the answer is yes and no…. It contains a limited version of the SQL Agent that is tailored to only protect databases used by SharePoint. //Pether Lek
CA ARCserve Backup – Alpha participants wanted
CA is looking for users who want to get an early look at CA ARCserve Backup features that will be present in the next release. The Alpha release of CA ARCserve Backup R16 is now available. This is a major new version of CA ARCserve Backup with a number of significant updates and enhancements. Please [...]
Data Movers for Quicker UNIX and Linux Backups
CA ARCserve Backup r15 introduces the Data Mover functionality to speed up your UNIX and Linux Backups. What is required? UNIX and Linux Servers must have SAN connectivity if you will be backing up to a library Otherwise, data can be backed up locally to a File System Device What is the benefit? The [...]
You Can’t See the Forest Because of the Trees (A True ARCserve Story)
A few years ago, we had a very large customer who was experiencing major problems with their “Powder Horn Tape Library” running in a SAN environment where tapes would randomly have their slot assignments change. This caused backup failures due to tapes not being in their assigned locations. Now if you are not familiar with [...]
Enabling Document-Level Backups for Microsoft Exchange
CA ARCserve Backup uses Microsoft’s Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) and Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) technologies to perform granular e-mail backups and restores. Microsoft Exchange versions 2007 and 2010 do not include these technologies by default. The Exchange Administrator will need to download the MAPI-CDO package from www.Microsoft.com and install it on the Exchange servers [...]
Changing Your View….
Have you ever wanted to change the way you look at your IT world? New with ARCserve Backup r15 is the ability to see your IT environment the classic way which, is listed by operating system type, as well as now you change the view to a new Group View. This new group view automatically displays [...]
What Is This?
Keep up-to-date with the new ARCserve r15 News feed! ARCserve has now implemented news feeds directly in your console so that you can easily keep up-to-date with what is happening . These news feeds are constantly updated with the latest information on: Technology: Hear about new features that are in the ARCserve and how to [...]
Welcome to CA ARCserve Backup r15!
Thank you for upgrading to CA ARCserve Backup r15, it has been an exciting year in development since out last release. We have added many new features to make your experience even quicker and easier. Some of the new items in this release are: Infrastructure Visualization. Now you can graphically see backup reports and utilization of [...]









