CA XOSOFT CONTENT DISTRIBUTION (FORMERLY CA XOSOFT WANSYNC CD) IS A SIMPLE, HIGHLY FLEXIBLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE CONTENT DELIVERY, CONSOLIDATION, PUBLISHING AND WEB PUBLISHING SOLUTION DEVELOPED FOR THE DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE — ALLOWING ORGANIZATIONS TO COLLECT INFORMATION FROM DISPARATE SOURCES AND CONSOLIDATE IT TO ONE CENTRAL LOCATION.
Overview
The enterprise-class technology infrastructure needs to reliably distribute and manage information across a distributed environment. Historically, this process proved to be extremely burdensome and expensive. Today, CA XOsoft Content Distribution offers a highly versatile content distribution, delivery and consolidation solution for the distributed enterprise based on asynchronous real-time or scheduled software replication of files over a WAN.
Benefits
Organizations compete in an interconnected world and are required to deliver and consolidate content to and from a central location to multiple disparate locations around the globe quickly. CA XOsoft Content Distribution helps you automate this process — increasing your organizational effectiveness, improving your IT and content management productivity and leveraging the sophisticated equipment of your central data center to help support branch and field offices.
The CA Advantage
CA XOsoft Content Distribution delivers and consolidates content to any location around the globe quickly and easily. This content distribution and Web site publishing tool is highly flexible, giving you the control you need to cost-effectively deliver the right information at the right time. As part of the larger CA Recovery Management solution, this solution exemplifies CA’s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision of helping you simplify and unify IT management.
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CA XOsoft Content Distribution: Delivery and Consolidation
for the Distributed Enterprise
Until recently, the distribution of content across global enterprises required significant IT investments, expensive hardware and software and plenty of support resources. CA effectively helps you overcome these challenges with a simple, flexible and cost-effective solution. CA XOsoft Content Distribution allows you to collect information from disparate sources and consolidate it to one central location. The solution supports a wide range of data distribution needs, including gathering information from branch offices, consolidating transactions for processing into a central database and aggregating distributed site data for centralized backup and archiving.
CA XOsoft Content Distribution is an ideal solution for distributing reference content, such as price lists, policies, sales materials, manuals and news, to internal users across a distributed enterprise. This powerful software solution eliminates the problem of out-of-sync field and branch office personnel. This is because content is maintained in a central repository, and changes to an organization’s target servers are automatically delivered immediately or on a scheduled basis.
Moreover, CA XOsoft Content Distribution allows you to serve external customers in the same manner — with customers delivering dynamic information across thousands of servers. Plus, the software’s support for flexible connectivity aids in building content delivery networks that optimize bandwidth for a wide range of content, including music, news and movies.
CONNECTING LOCATIONS, CONTENT, CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES FIGURE A
CA XOsoft Content Distribution may be used to deliver, synchronize and consolidate corporate information repositories among multiple locations and branch offices, and has the ability to distribute common data while consolidating unique information.
Ensuring Your Branch Offices Have the Right Information, at the Right Time
CA XOsoft Content Distribution builds on the proven CA XOsoft Replication (formerly CA XOsoft WANSync) data replication engine to provide a cost-effective, simple-to-use — yet highly sophisticated — solution for a variety of applications that require information to be delivered from one place to another.
As such, CA XOsoft Content Distribution provides:
• Asynchronous host-based software replication that transfers changes to information as they
occur to one or many target servers located anywhere on the network
• Support for fan-out and chain distribution topologies that ensure highly efficient use of
server and network resources
• A powerful remote installation wizard that deploys CA XOsoft Content Distribution to any
number of servers in one, single step
• Powerful templating capabilities and a configuration editor, which allows settings to be
applied to many servers at once
• Wizard-driven creation of new content distribution scenarios
• Differential treatment based on the type of content, such sending music files to one target
and video to another
• Non-intrusive updates to content that is active on the target system
• Cross-replication between all supported operating systems
• Central management of all delivery scenarios from a single console or distributed
management and permissions for local control
• Clear scenario status indicators and multiple alert paths to ensure that issues requiring
action are identified quickly
• An assessment mode that measures exact change rates during an evaluation to aid in
estimating bandwidth requirements
With these basic features, CA XOsoft Content Distribution supports four distinct applications:
• Content delivery or distribution
• Web publishing
• Information collection
CONTENT DELIVERY AND DISTRIBUTION
CA XOsoft Content Distribution delivers reference content, such as price lists, policies, sales materials, manuals and news, to internal users across a distributed enterprise. As such, it helps you eliminate the problem of out-of-sync field and branch office personnel. This is because content is maintained in a single repository, and changes to an organization’s target servers are automatically delivered immediately or on a scheduled basis.
Furthermore, CA XOsoft Content Distribution content allows you to serve external customers in the same manner — with customers delivering dynamic information across thousands of servers. Plus, the software’s support for flexible connectivity aids in building content delivery networks that optimize bandwidth for a wide range of content, including music, news and movies.
WEB PUBLISHING
CA XOsoft Content Distribution also provides content publishing and Web publishing capabilities. As a result, it is an ideal replacement for Microsoft's Site Server Continuous Replication Services product, which was discontinued and is no longer supported by Microsoft. CA XOsoft Content Distribution helps with Web publishing by distributing Web applications and content from a staging server, on which newly developed material is placed, to one or many production servers, where it is made available to users. Content can be delivered on a scheduled basis, at the point where the updated file is closed or continuously to support the needs of your application.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
Highly distributed operations still require that information be gathered for central storage, processing and backup. This can include collecting invoices or sales statistics from branch offices, consolidating transactions for processing into a central database and gathering distributed site data for centralized backup and archiving. CA’s content delivery software allows you to easily collect information from disparate sources and consolidate to one central location.
BRANCH OFFICE CONTENT CONSOLIDATION SUPPORT
CA XOsoft Content Distribution provides effective support for branch office operations without the need for prohibitively large hardware or software investments. In addition, CA XOsoft Replication is a complimentary solution both for distributing data from headquarters to the field and for consolidating file data from your branch office servers to a repository in the data center — leveraging your current enterprise resources for backup and information
A RICH ARRAY OF FEATURES TO SUPPORT YOUR ENTERPRISE’S CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NEEDS
KEY FEATURES
• TCP/IP-based replication with support for three different modes – Scheduled replication of changed files
– Replication of updated files when they are closed – Continuous real-time replication of open files
• Optimized WAN support for cost-effective use of available networks and global reach for web publishing and content delivery • Transfer of changed data, which minimizes required bandwidth
during content distribution process
• Non-intrusive update of active content on the target server
• Central management GUI or multiple local GUIs, as appropriate • Remote installation of CA XOsoft Content Distribution software
and updates on many servers at once • Power-editing of multiple scenarios at once
• Templates for fast, customized new scenario creation • Wizard-driven new scenario creation
• Automatic recovery from failures
• Delegated security for flexibility of local control without compromising overall security for Web publishing, content delivery and branch office consolidation
• Full support of Microsoft clusters and 32- and 64-bit architectures • Multi-OS and cross-platform replication support, including
Windows, Linux, AIX and Solaris • Bandwidth throttling
• Support for any file type
• Hardware independence for content distribution, content delivery and Web publishing
• Full integration with standard security models
• Point-to-point connectivity/authentication only required for content distribution
• Assessment mode, which measures exact change rate during evaluation to aid in estimating bandwidth requirements
• Filtering by filename and automatic selection of target server based on content type
• Scripts triggered by updates to specific files, which allow special actions to be taken on new content
• Ability to run scripts before and after scheduled synchronization , which supports automated installation, notification and other actions following new content delivery
• Different source and target directories
• Multiple delivery scenarios running on the same source directory • Support for arbitrary tree topology, enables efficient routing and
bandwidth use for efficient content distribution, Web publishing and branch office consolidation
• Chaining of delivery scenarios for efficient content distribution
• Comprehensive XML-based reporting (can be integrated directly with a database system for processing)
• Reporting and notification routing through email and system logs FIGURE B
FUNCTION
Content delivery and Web publishing replication
Simplified management
Integration with the IT environment
Rich, flexible content distribution options
Increase Effectiveness and Improve Productivity
CA XOsoft Content Distribution allows organizations to collect information from disparate sources and consolidate it to one central location. This includes gathering data from branch offices, consolidating transactions for processing into a central database and aggregating distributed site data for centralized backup and archiving. As a result, this robust software solution helps you:
• Increase organizational effectiveness
• Improve IT and content management productivity
Increase Organizational Effectiveness
Today’s organizations are operating in an information-driven economy, and to be effective they must supply the right information to the right people at the right time — whether that means delivering price lists, policies or product information to employees or updated images and data to customers.
CA XOsoft Content Distribution automates the process for you. The efficient content delivery and Web publishing replication engine lets you modify the data in its original location and have it in the hands of your entire global organization within seconds.
Moreover, it helps:
• Align the enterprise with real-time or scheduled software replication of corporate data —
accelerating the transfer of knowledge between branches, satellite offices and field personnel
• Ensure that customers, suppliers and channel partners have immediate access to critical
data, with automated, dynamic content delivery to portals and Web servers
Improve IT and Content Management Productivity
To support these efforts, the solution:
• Automates content distribution, content delivery and Web publishing to replace burdensome
manual procedures and home-grown solutions
• Offers a wizard for remote installation to many servers at once as well as power-editing of
configuration settings on many scenarios to dramatically reduce tedious and error-prone administrative tasks
• Consolidates file data from branch and field offices, allowing resources to be shared across
offices for data processing and data protection
• Eliminates backup headaches in branch offices
• Leverages critical expertise, personnel and equipment across locations
• Offers simple and intuitive configuration management of scenarios
• Enables quick identification of potential issues with clear GUI indicators of scenario status
• Reduces WAN costs with bandwidth control
CA Advantage
CA XOsoft Content Distribution offers an ideal solution for distributing reference content to internal users throughout a distributed enterprise. Yet, another important benefit of this innovative solution is that it is supported by CA, a long-time market leader in IT-enabled business solutions.
CA XOsoft Content Distribution exemplifies CA’s unique vision of Enterprise IT Management (EITM). Under this vision, CA focuses on helping you unify and simplify management of your enterprise’s IT resources in ways that maximize their value to your business. And similar to other product families, CA XOsoft Content Distribution is built for easy integration and interoperability with CA’s Recovery Management products and other management and protection tools, as well as products from other vendors.
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Next Steps
You know how critical your IT resources are to your business, and how critical it is to keep those resources available and up to date. CA XOsoft Content Distribution offers simple, flexible, integrated and powerful data distribution and delivery features that can help improve your enterprise’s IT efficiency and reduce IT costs. Such protection translates directly into greater agility and productivity for your company and its customers, employees and partners. Learn how CA XOsoft Content Distribution can help you quickly and easily meet your
enterprise’s specific availability and needs.
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