BrightStor ARCserve Backup Release 11 for Windows offers world-class data protection for distributed servers, databases, applications and multiple clients including Windows, Linux, NetWare, Mac OS X and UNIX environments. With its wide range of powerful, easy-to-use data protection tools, BrightStor ARCserve Backup can help ensure the integrity and availability of your most important asset - data. BrightStor ARCserve Backup is a high-performance data-protection solution that addresses the needs of businesses with heterogeneous environments. It provides flexible backup and restore performance, easy administration, broad device compatibility and unsurpassed reliability. Protection of Critical Business Assets. BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides data protection for all leading operating systems, hardware platforms and applications. BrightStor ARCserve Backup leverages several methods, including multiplexing, to provide highperformance, non-disruptive backup and restore operations to mission-critical information and data assets. Simplified Administration. BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides full automation and centralization of traditional data protection tasks for distributed and enterprise environments. Scalability. BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides a complete backup solution regardless of the size or type of your organization. Organizations can backup all of their data from one centralized server to various branch offices even in the largest enterprise. The advantage lies in that every BrightStor ARCserve Backup option supports many configurations, applications and platforms, including Windows, NetWare, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITIES Protection of Critical Application Data. BrightStor ARCserve Backup has applicationspecific agents to support all the leading applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Lotus/Domino and Oracle. Multiplexing Capabilities. Multiplexing enables multiple jobs to write to the same media simultaneously. This allows the backup administrator to back up data without impacting the server or application, and to make efficient use of tape libraries and media. Premium Backup Agent for Microsoft Exchange. Provides document-level backup and restore optimized for the Exchange environment. Single Instance Storage (SIS) support helps ensure that only single copies of duplicate attachments are copied to tape. Integrated Backup-to-Disk. Backup-to-disk allows users to realize the variable performance and random access characteristics of disk technology as a step between the primary disk and your tape device. Support for VSS Snapshots Using the Agent for Open Files. The Agent for Open Files incorporates Writer support for VSS applications on Windows 2003. VSS works with BrightStor ARCserve Backup and VSS-aware applications and services to create shadow copies of the volumes. State-of-the-Art Database Agents. Database agents provide online backup protection for all the popular databases. They help ensure data integrity by protecting the transaction log, archive log and journal files along with the data, which enables advanced capabilities such as table space restores. Database support is provided for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, SAP R/3 and Sybase. Multiple Network and Media Support. BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides protection that is optimized for all storage environments including traditional directattached storage, SAN and NAS devices. NDMP Support. Supports backup to tape drives and libraries attached directly to NAS devices. Agent for Open Files. A high-performance hot backup solution for Windows NT/2000/Server 2003, Windows XP Professional and NetWare file systems. Windows Powered NAS and Windows Storage Server 2003 Support. BrightStor ARCserve Backup can manage dedicated file and print servers based on Windows Powered NAS and Windows Storage Server 2003. OPEN LICENSE PROGRAM CA's Open Licensing Program is an easy-to-use purchasing program that all