Computer Associates International, Inc., Islandia, N.Y., an e-Business software provider, announced the availability of a beta program for a new data protection solution for Unix and Windows NT/2000 environments. Code-named Cheetah, the solution is designed to deliver and increase the performance, scalability, administration and manageability essential for eBusiness.

Cheetah will perform high performance data protection operations without impacting eBusiness operations, according to the company. It will reduce backup windows and assure increased data and application availability through increased backup and recovery speeds and integrated disaster recovery.

Key Cheetah features will include: "bare metal" Unix disaster recovery, the capability to deploy heterogeneous SAN environments, SAN- and severless-enabled application agents, data protection for multiple NAS configurations, innovative media management techniques and integration with EMC's TimeFinder and Fastrax technologies.

Computer Associates International, Inc.