CA ARCserve Backup r15 Outperforms Symantec Backup Exec 2010 in Comparative Review

ISLANDIA, N.Y., June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) today announced the newly-released CA ARCserve® Backup r15 outperformed the latest version of Symantec™ Backup Exec™ by a significant margin during a recent competitive review, achieving much higher ratings overall and in individual categories for backup and restore functionality, performance, ease-of-use, and deployment.

The study, commissioned by CA Technologies and conducted by leading independent technology research and product evaluation firm Network Testing Labs (NTL), found CA ARCserve Backup r15 superior to the more expensive Symantec Backup Exec 2010 in every round of testing.

The results culminated with NTL recognizing CA ARCserve Backup with its "World Class Award" for best data protection—the second time in the last year that the product has received the award in a comparison to Backup Exec.

"Our rigorous testing procedures thoroughly evaluate the real-world capability of the features and functions that customers ultimately bet their business on," said Barry Nance, president of Network Testing Labs, who has evaluated thousands of hardware and software products for publications like Computerworld, BYTE Magazine, Government Computer News, PC Magazine, Network Computing, and Network World. "CA ARCserve Backup once again won each comparative test conducted against Backup Exec, with significant disparities noted in backup/restore performance, deduplication disk space savings, and bandwidth usage, which are key factors in choosing the ideal data protection solution."

In addition, the study found CA ARCserve Backup "performs far faster, far more reliably and far more efficiently than Symantec's Backup Exec 2010."  Calling the product "more mature, more capable, faster and less expensive," the study concluded that "ARCserve is clearly the best choice for protecting and managing your data."

"We are delighted to win Network Testing Labs' World Class award for the second year in a row, as we continue to focus on producing products that deliver the highest levels of speed and performance," said Adam Famularo, senior vice president and general manager for CA Technologies' Recovery Management and Data Modeling business unit. "It is especially exciting to see the comparative results for deduplication where CA ARCserve Backup r15 saves nearly double the disk space while consuming 45% less bandwidth than Symantec Backup Exec 2010."

To learn more about CA ARCserve Backup r15 and the other members of the CA ARCserve Family of Products, please visit www.arcserve.com.

About Network Testing Labs

Network Testing Labs performs independent technology research and product evaluations. Its network laboratory connects myriads of types of computers and virtually every kind of network device in an ever-changing variety of ways. Its authors are networking experts who write clearly and plainly about complex technologies and products.

Network Testing Labs' experts have written hardware and software product reviews, state-of-the-art analyses, feature articles, in-depth technology workshops, cover stories, buyer's guides and in-depth technology outlooks. Our experts have spoken on a number of topics at Comdex, PC Expo and other venues. In addition, they've created industry standard network benchmark software, database benchmark software and network diagnostic utilities.

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About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies' innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com. Follow CA Technologies on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cainc.

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