CA has introduced a new recovery management solution that combines continuous data protection (CDP), business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities to provide users with uninterrupted access to critical business information.

The BrightStor ARCserve Backup/WANSyncHA Bundle integrates the XOsoft WANSync and XOsoft disaster recovery testing solutions with CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup. It is said to enable a range of recovery management best practices including rapid backup to all forms of storage media, replication of data to remote servers, and testing of the recoverability of key business applications and data.

According to CA, many companies have been reluctant to adopt CDP because it only addresses part of their overall recovery management requirements. However, by integrating CDP with multiple data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery technologies, customers can have timely recovery of e-mail, database and other business applications across diverse storage infrastructures.

Making the announcement, Frank Jablonski, director of product marketing for storage management at CA stated, "Enterprise-class data protection can quickly become too expensive and too complex to manage if you are using too many different point solutions to fulfill all the requirements of best practices and regulatory mandates.

By integrating key recovery management technologies, CA is offering customers the ability to meet their information and application availability challenges while minimizing complexity and cost."