CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that ScaleMatrix,
a colocation, private cloud hosting and managed services provider, is
using CA
ARCserve® to support its managed data security service that protects
more than 100 terabytes of customer data for disaster recovery, business
continuity and highly available business services.
ScaleMatrix offers cutting-edge IT solutions that enable organizations
to reduce costs, increase agility and safeguard compliance. The
company’s customers – many from heavily regulated sectors such as
finance, biomedical and government – demand exceptional data
availability and service continuity. The company needed a recovery
management solution that would work across physical and virtual
environments and a robust platform for simple cloud management.
“Our customers are under pressure to reduce IT spend while complying
with regulations that impact the storage and management of data,” said
James Heller, marketing director, ScaleMatrix. “To help them meet these
goals, we need to ensure that our services combine data and system high
availability with efficiency and cost-effectiveness.”
The need for effective disaster recovery was highlighted last year when
south Texas suffered a series of prolonged power outages. “The incident
acted as a wake-up call for many businesses, as it impacted their
ability to continue operating,” said Heller. “An hour of downtime might
be manageable for some, but beyond this, many organizations’ operations
can be significantly impacted.”
To ensure ScaleMatrix’s services would provide the business continuity
demanded by its clients, the company needed to extend its disaster
recovery capabilities while simplifying the provisioning and management
of its private cloud services.
CA ARCserve forms the basis of a ScaleMatrix managed data security
service that uses cloud storage to minimize costs. The company also uses
the CA
AppLogic® cloud platform to support its private cloud services.
“We selected the CA Technologies solutions as they are scalable, easy to
configure and integrate, and require minimal support,” adds Heller.
“They enable us to help organizations bring new services to market
faster, comply with regulations and get more from their IT budgets.”
ScaleMatrix’s data security managed service integrates CA ARCserve with
cloud storage offerings and an appliance-based solution to provide
robust data availability at an affordable cost. The level of
availability can be varied according to individual customer or system
needs, from simple backup to high availability and various options in
between.
In addition to its customer offerings, ScaleMatrix uses CA ARCserve to
replicate its own systems and data between its San Diego and Texas
datacenters – mitigating the impact of local events such as power
outages or natural disasters.
In total, more than 100 terabytes of ScaleMatrix and customer data is
protected across a wide range of systems. Recovery time varies from up
to a day for those customers using basic backup services, to
microseconds for those with real-time replication and failover.
The CA AppLogic cloud platform allows ScaleMatrix to establish and scale
services very quickly, maximizing profitability while meeting customer
demand for scalable and highly available services. ScaleMatrix has
‘wrapped’ a number of applications, including CA ARCserve, to create
pre-defined services that can be provisioned with CA AppLogic’s drag and
drop interface.
“The success of ScaleMatrix underscores the value that service providers
get from partnering with CA Technologies to quickly bring new, scalable
offerings to market,” said Steve Fairbanks, vice president, Data
Management, CA Technologies. “CA Technologies enables them to do exactly
that with ARCserve and AppLogic, which deliver reliable data protection
and simplify the provisioning and management of cloud services.”
About ScaleMatrix
ScaleMatrix takes an infrastructure-based approach to providing
best-in-class hosting solutions to clients at every stage of their IT
Lifecycle development. By investing heavily in both facilities and
personnel, and developing strategic relationships with critical
hardware, software, and support service vendors – we are able to offer
our clients industry leading solutions which include design, deployment,
and ongoing management as part of our standard offering. For additional
information, visit ScaleMatrix at http://www.scalematrix.com.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help
customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile
business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and
SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and
secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn
more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.
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