Real Madrid C.F. Relies on CA ARCserve to Protect its Corporate Data

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Nov 23, 2010, 08:30 ET

ISLANDIA, N.Y. and MORGES, Switzerland, Nov. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --

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Real Madrid C.F., one of the most successful and renowned football clubs in the world, is using CA Technologies ARCserve® Backup software to help ensure the protection, availability and recovery of all their corporate data.
The Club relies on CA ARCserve to protect its entire information systems. This includes databases, email and business process systems such as HR, finance, and CRM.

CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) announced that Real Madrid C.F., one of the most successful and renowned football clubs in the world, is using CA ARCserve® Backup software to help ensure the protection, availability and recovery of all the Club's corporate data and systems.

Real Madrid C.F. uses CA ARCserve to protect its entire information systems, from databases and email to business process systems such as HR, finance, and CRM. Ten terabytes of data is stored across thirty servers and the storage area network that form the data center's centralized architecture located at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The use of CA ARCserve will be extended to virtualized environments that are currently being implemented.

"Thanks to CA ARCserve we know that our data is protected, and we can ensure business continuity and compliance," said Jose Manuel Pena Arroyo, IT Manager, Real Madrid C.F. "The reliability of the product is the most remarkable characteristic, as well as its easy adaptation and responsiveness to our evolving needs, all of it at an optimum cost."

The best practices established by the Club's IT department include recovery tests executed on a regular basis to verify the correct performance of the process and system in place. Reactive recoveries on user demands are requested via CA Service Desk, a CA Technologies software product implemented at Real Madrid as the corporate helpdesk solution.

"We are delighted to be working with Real Madrid, a highly respected football club which clearly understands how to maximize their performance with good data recovery and backup," said Chris Ross, vice president, Data Management, CA Technologies. "Real Madrid's decision to use CA ARCserve is supporting their backup and recovery strategy so the club can keep running at the speed it needs to keep one step ahead, both on and off the field."

CA ARCserve Backup is a high-performance solution that combines innovative disk and tape backup features—including data deduplication, granular restore and infrastructure visualization—with state-of-the-art technologies to support efficient backup, reduce management time, avoid unplanned downtime and provide fast ROI across Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX®, Linux® and NetWare® in both physical and virtual environments.

For more information on the CA ARCserve family of products, visit www.arcserve.com.

About Real Madrid C.F.

Real Madrid is one of the most historic sport organizations worldwide and is one of the most successful clubs in the world, chosen by FIFA as the Best Club of the 20th Century. 31 league wins, 17 Copa del Rey, and 9 European Cups are among its highlight wins. Founded in 1902, the entity plays its home matches in one of the most modern stadiums in Europe. The Santiago Bernabeu Stadium gathers over 80,000 spectators in every match day. For more information, visit www.realmadrid.com.

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