CA Technologies slashes competitors, offers Data Protection for 3 yrs

CA Technologies announced a competitive upgrade offer for data backup and recovery software targeted at customers facing spiraling data growth, IT complexity and budget pressures.

Users of Symantec, CommVault, Veeam and other data protection who switch to CA ARCserve are eligible to receive pricing discounts and additional maintenance credits,according to the press note.

From now until March 31, 2013, eligible businesses who replace a competitor's backup or disaster recovery software with CA ARCserve can purchase an unlimited-use Managed Capacity license for their business for the next three years* - at a set price regardless of any organic growth in their storage requirements. At the end of the third year, customers can renew for the amount of data being protected at that time.
In addition, CA Technologies is offering its partners a 25% discount off the current standard MSRP.

Customers who replace a competitor's backup or disaster recovery software with CA ARCserve may also be eligible to receive an additional credit towards any maintenance agreements on their existing data protection solution.This addresses a significant pain point typically involved in switching data protection solutions.

"Customers are being overwhelmed by the relentlessly rising cost and complexity of safeguarding the growing volumes of data associated with their business-critical applications and services-especially as their IT environment becomes increasingly virtualized," said Chris Ross, vice president, Worldwide Sales, Data Management, CA Technologies.  "This special offer gives customers an even greater opportunity to move to CA ARCserve and fulfill their data protection requirements more easily and efficiently than ever before."