Most impressive, Alkazaz says, is that the policy agents are forward- and backward-compatible. "You can use agents for emails and databases designed for previous versions." Prior to moving to 10.5, Crystals & Detectors used CA's ARCserve Backup 9.
Greg Petras, systems analyst at electronic trading technology company Nyfix Inc., has also recently started migrating to BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5 from 10.0. He agrees its backward-compatibility is one of its best features: "We don't have to upgrade all of our agents at once. They're compatible."
In addition to integrating with other CA management products, the upgraded backup software works with a range of third-party offerings, including snapshot image technology from EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT).
CA says the software is available for all major server platforms, including Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, and Windows NT; major Unix derivatives and Linux distributions; NetWare; and Open VMS. It also performs backup and recovery functions for specific applications, including Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange, Oracle databases, Lotus Notes, Sybase, SAP R/3, and IBM DB2.
BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5 is priced anywhere from $4,000 to $25,000, depending on the type of server it's running on. Pricing for the different agents is extra and ranges from $295 to $10,000.
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