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| CA to Deliver Support for Microsoft Virtualization Products In tandem with Microsoft's "Get Virtual Now" event, CA announces its intent to provide broad-based support for Microsoft's virtualization technology across its Recovery Management, Virtualization Management, Security and Systems Management products. This support will help Microsoft customers to effectively manage, govern and secure even the most complex virtualized environments. Using familiar interfaces and common management consoles, Microsoft is providing a set of technologies to enable an end-to-end virtualized infrastructure. CA's 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 rapid recovery management. Other CA products that plan to support Microsoft virtualization technology in the future include: - CA Advanced Systems Management, which is planned to support Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V management, is a vendor and platform-neutral solution that enables service availability by streamlining the management of complex physical and virtual environments. - CA Access Control is planned to include Hyper-V support and mitigate several of the security risks common to virtualization. The support will focus on protecting the virtualization resources of Hyper-V through the separation of duties of privileged or shared accounts and providing consistent access control policies, resource protection, and entitlement reporting across the Hyper-V host and the various guest operating systems that can run on it. - CA Network and Systems Management, which has been certified to support Windows Server 2008 management, is planned to maintain the availability and performance of business-critical services by providing centralized management of heterogeneous IT infrastructures. - CA XOsoft Replication and High Availability currently supports replication and failover of guest operating systems residing in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment. Future support will focus on enabling more cost-effective business continuity, continuous application availability and verifiable disaster recovery of virtual servers by running at the Hyper-V hypervisor level. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |