The new offering allows enterprise storage policies to be defined from a centralized console across all major platforms, including Windows Server 2003/2000/NT, major UNIX derivatives and Linux distributions, NetWare and Open VMS. It also provides backup and recovery of Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange, Oracle, Lotus Notes, Sybase, SAP R/3, Advantage Ingres, Informix, DB2 and other key applications. This cross-platform approach supports corporate on-demand computing initiatives, whereby enterprise resources are managed as a holistic utility that can be flexibly and dynamically allocated based on changing business needs.

BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5 provides policy-based management backup functions that allow storage administrators to assign many type of data across the enterprise to any available and appropriate storage resource. By doing so, BrightStor Enterprise Backup enables organizations to minimize both business risk and storage infrastructure expenditures.

BrightStor Enterprise Backup also incorporates  BrightStor Portal  technology to provide common management and cross-server reporting for all enterprise storage resources.

“Organizations have huge amounts of data, but only limited budgets for data protection,” said David Hill, vice president of storage research at The Aberdeen Group. “It is therefore essential for them to appropriately assign protection resources to data selectively, based on well-defined risk factors. CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup provides a means of accomplishing this important objective.”

“BrightStor Enterprise Backup's tremendous performance makes it an invaluable solution for protecting our business from potentially disastrous data loss,” said Mohammad Alkazaz, I.T. manager of Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors, a global leader in the manufacture and development of Scintillation and Photonic Materials. “With its new class-specific policy capabilities, it will enable us to do an even better job of fully protecting our business within our stringent resource constraints.”

“One size doesn't fit all when it comes to data protection,” said Bob Davis, CA's vice president of BrightStor solutions. “With BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5, no customer need ever waste $10,000 to protect $1,000 worth of data, or put data worth $500,000 at risk by backing it up on an inadequate low-end system.”