9 September 2008

Virtualisation technology can both reduce cost and improve service. To receive these significant benefits, IT staff require seamless management across complex physical and virtualised infrastructures

Louis Blatt, CA In tandem with Microsoft’s ‘Get Virtual Now’ event, global IT management software company CA has announced it intends to provide broad-based support for Microsoft’s virtualisation technology across its Recovery Management, Virtualisation Management, Security and Systems Management products.

“Virtualisation technology can both reduce cost and improve service. To receive these significant benefits, IT staff require seamless management across complex physical and virtualised infrastructures,” said Louis Blatt, senior vice president for Strategy and Business Development at CA.

Microsoft is providing a set of technologies to enable an end-to-end virtualised infrastructure. CA says its 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 recovery management. Other products that plan to support Microsoft virtualisation technology in the future include CA Advanced Systems Management, which is planned to support Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V management, CA Access Control, CA Network and Systems Management and CA XOsoft Replication and High Availability.

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