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ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

CA Technologies (CA) today announced that ScaleMatrix, a colocation, private cloud hosting and managed services provider, is using CA ARCserve to support its managed data security service that protects more than 100 terabytes of customer data for disaster recovery, business continuity and highly available business services.

ScaleMatrix offers cutting-edge IT solutions that enable organizations to reduce costs, increase agility and safeguard compliance. The companys customers many from heavily regulated sectors such as finance, biomedical and government demand exceptional data availability and service continuity. The company needed a recovery management solution that would work across physical and virtual environments and a robust platform for simple cloud management.

Our customers are under pressure to reduce IT spend while complying with regulations that impact the storage and management of data, said James Heller, marketing director, ScaleMatrix. To help them meet these goals, we need to ensure that our services combine data and system high availability with efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

The need for effective disaster recovery was highlighted last year when south Texas suffered a series of prolonged power outages.The incident acted as a wake-up call for many businesses, as it impacted their ability to continue operating, said Heller.An hour of downtime might be manageable for some, but beyond this, many organizations operations can be significantly impacted.

To ensure ScaleMatrixs services would provide the business continuity demanded by its clients, the company needed to extend its disaster recovery capabilities while simplifying the provisioning and management of its private cloud services.

CA ARCserve forms the basis of a ScaleMatrix managed data security service that uses cloud storage to minimize costs. The company also uses the CA AppLogic cloud platform to support its private cloud services.

We selected the CA Technologies solutions as they are scalable, easy to configure and integrate, and require minimal support, adds Heller. They enable us to help organizations bring new services to market faster, comply with regulations and get more from their IT budgets.

ScaleMatrixs data security managed service integrates CA ARCserve with cloud storage offerings and an appliance-based solution to provide robust data availability at an affordable cost. The level of availability can be varied according to individual customer or system needs, from simple backup to high availability and various options in between.

In addition to its customer offerings, ScaleMatrix uses CA ARCserve to replicate its own systems and data between its San Diego and Texas datacenters mitigating the impact of local events such as power outages or natural disasters.

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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire -07/31/12)- (BRCD) Cloud hosting provider PayPerCloud ran its business on a mix of servers and storage connected with various network switches operating at 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), but the aging infrastructure was unable to scale with its growing business. The company was running out of physical ports and experiencing performance issues. It needed a 10 GbE solution.

After evaluating several solutions, PayPerCloud replaced its infrastructure with a Brocade Ethernet fabric that includes Brocade VDX 6720 Switches and Brocade MLX Series routers. The comprehensive solution from Brocade delivered the performance, scalability and reliability PayPerCloud needed, as well as the design, installation, service and support.

PayPerCloud relies on Brocade VDX 6720 switches for 10 GbE top-of-rack server connectivity. These connect to Brocade MLX-16 routers in a Multi-Chassis Trunking (MCT) configuration, enabling network-level virtualization and enhanced network reliability. A Brocade MLXe-4 chassis resides at the edge of the network and supports connections between servers and storage, as well as 10 GbE Internet connectivity. SAN storage arrays connect to Brocade MLXe-16 chassis to provide storage connectivity to the various environments.

California-based PayPerCloud -- specializing in creating a high-availability, cloud-hosting infrastructure and cloud-enabled applications -- has since launched VaultScape, an online backup service, based on its new storage capabilities. The Brocade network infrastructure allows PayPerCloud to easily support new customers on the bandwidth-intensive backup service as it continues to grow. PayPerCloud subsequently grew its customer base 81 percent in 2011, and orders are currently up 160 percent for 2012.

PayPerCloud also increased its server-rack density from eight servers per rack to 12, a 50 percent increase, and expects to reduce power consumption by approximately 60 percent. "Now we have half as many cables to manage," said Miles Feinberg, president of PayPerCloud. "And VM management takes a lot less time with Brocade Network Advisor."

The Brocade Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP) feature ensures that a consistent port profile is applied to all VDX switches in the fabric. Whenever there is a VM motion event, it dynamically configures the switch ports to ensure that VM traffic experiences consistent policies and configurations. PayPerCloud is leveraging AMPP with Brocade Network Advisor, a graphic user interface (GUI) based network management tool, to automate a previously manual process.

This incredible growth was almost upended by the company's aging network. "When we moved to pure hosting services, we discovered our weak points," said Feinberg. "Brocade helped us architect a plan that fulfills our business goals, and service and support have been great."

What Is an Ethernet Fabric?

Compared to classic hierarchical Ethernet, Ethernet fabrics provide higher levels of performance, utilization, availability and simplicity. Moreover, they have the following characteristics:

"The interest in Ethernet fabric offerings and customer adoption are all on the rise. Customers want to migrate to an Ethernet fabric with minimal disruption to current operations. An access layer-based approach addresses the pains that drive many to look at fabrics to begin with: the latency and unnecessary load on core switches that is incurred without the risk associated with a 'rip and replace' strategy. The right fabric does not require an entirely new set of skills and training to manage, and solid solutions do exist," said Zeus Kerravala, founder ZK Research.

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PayPerCloud(TM) Revamps Network With Ethernet Fabric and 10 GbE to Meet Growing Demand