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CA releases BrightStor integrating 13 products

Information Week reports that CA announced integrated storage-management software “designed to help customers keep costs in line” The CA BrightStor r11.1 suite includes “13 integrated products that will support multiple types of storage products, databases, and apps” and aiming to “undercut the management costs of offerings of primary competitors EMC Corp. and Veritas Software Corp.”

Enhancements include the ability to align different types of data with appropriate media to support business goals. Together, the new modules could help customers gain a common view across mainframe and open-systems-based data. New backup and recovery software could let customers manage those operations and improve the success rate. New resource-management capabilities should help customers back up data based on business value and cut down on capital hardware costs by getting optimum efficiency from the existing storage network.