CA’s Instant Recovery On Demand for SMBs

LAS VEGAS, USA: CA, Inc. has announced CA Instant Recovery On Demand, a new turn-key business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) service that helps small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) ensure continuous availability of applications and data, even in the event of a critical systems failure or disaster, without additional IT infrastructure costs.

Since CA Instant Recovery On Demand is delivered as a turn-key managed service, it helps SMBs meet their continuous availability needs within the limits of their staff and budget—an important way to help IT address business and compliance accountability in a challenging economic environment.

“SMB IT organizations need an affordable and manageable way to ensure non-stop business operations and continuous data protection,” said Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International, 25 year veteran disaster recovery planner and author of five books on disaster recovery planning. “By providing a business continuity and disaster recovery managed service, CA is helping SMB organizations meet all these requirements.”

The new hosted service is sold exclusively through authorized CA partners and typically implements in less than 24 hours. Now, partners can offer SMB customers the ability to leverage CA’s award-winning CA XOsoft High Availability technology via a hosted cloud service, delivered real-time over the internet. Through this sales and delivery model, both resellers and their SMB customers benefit from reduced up-front costs, speeding their time to value.

“The paradox of these tough financial times is that many SMBs mandate IT to ensure application and information availability, but don’t have the resources to implement an in-house solution,” said Adam Famularo, senior vice president and general manager for CA’s Recovery Management and Data Modeling business unit. “A key differentiator between CA Instant Recovery On Demand and many other managed BC/DR offerings is that we can offer them a turn-key solution with no requirement for additional hardware or software.”

CA Instant Recovery On Demand is tailored exclusively for a channel sales model and allows partners to offer customers:

• Scalable, continuous data protection that provides instant data recovery in the event of isolated data corruption episodes
• SaaS-based, real-time replication and data for Windows Servers, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft IIS and Oracle
• Application availability via fully automated failover and failback for file servers, Exchange, SQL, IIS and Oracle
• Disaster recovery site compliance through fully automated DR testing without disrupting the production environment.
• CA Instant Recovery On Demand leverages a SaaS Business Continuity platform and hosting facilities from CA business partner Geminare Incorporated.

“Application and data availability is no longer a nice-to-have for a company, it’s a mandate from management,” said Joshua Geist, CEO of Geminare Incorporated, a CA business partner specializing in host-based business continuity services. “With CA Instant Recovery On Demand, IT can deliver on this directive with a rapidly deployed, enterprise-class solution without high up-front costs or complication.”

CA Instant Recovery On Demand is available for sale and delivery by authorized CA Partners, who can sign up to sell it now in North America and Germany and in the rest of EMEA and APAC in calendar Q1 and Q2.