CA Technologies today announced new enhancements to its CA ARCserve® data protection solution that simplify backup and disaster recovery for physical and virtual server environments, while significantly improving performance, scalability and flexibility. 

The new release adds key new replication and virtualization capabilities for improved business continuity—making it ideally suited to SMBs and service providers seeking to quickly build or add to their data protection portfolios.

CA ARCserve provides both VM-level and host-level backups for VMware servers, and it offers VM-level backups for Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.

The new Remote Virtual Standby feature enables customers to automatically replicate image-based backups to an offsite facility and convert them into bootable VMs.  This capability enables MSPs to deliver managed services for business continuity.

Many customers should experience speed improvements, for example NTFS backup speeds are now 43% faster, which will empower them to deal with ever-shortening backup windows.

CA ARCserve offers the ability to replicate servers and their data to multiple onsite and/or remote failover servers. This “cascading failover” approach lets customers and MSPs alike leverage local resources for simple outages, while maintaining remote resources in one or more locations to protect themselves against local or even regional disasters. 

CA ARCserve r16.5 provides backup, recovery, replication and high availability for Windows Server 2012/Windows 8 environments, including those using new Microsoft Windows features such as NTFS deduplication, Resilient File Systems (ReFS) and Storage Spaces.