Content Distribution, Content Delivery and Web Publishing

CA XOsoft™ Content Distribution (formerly CA XOsoft WANSyncCD) is 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.

CA XOsoft Content Distribution may be used to deliver, synchronize and consolidate corporate information repositories among multiple locations and branch offices around the globe. With CA XOsoft Content Distribution, employees and representatives in the field will always have the right information . . . at the right time.

CA XOsoft Content Distribution is also a powerful content delivery and web publishing solution that can serve your external customers through portals and websites with any kind of information that is stored in files, from music to movies to documents to news.

Historically, the enterprise-class technology infrastructure needed to reliably distribute and manage information across a highly distributed environment has been tremendously expensive. The playing field has changed with CA XOsoft Content Distribution. Our content distribution software is simple, highly flexible, and very cost-effective content delivery, content consolidation, content publishing, and website publishing.

Your company is living and competing in a connected world. CA XOsoft Content Distribution helps you make the connection.

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Learn more about our content distribution and delivery solution by downloading a trial evaluation of our production software. Be sure to view the recorded demonstration of our content distribution solution or contact us for information related to your specific content distribution, content consolidation or web publishing needs.

CA XOsoft Content Distribution — A Multi-Faceted Product

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 that information be delivered from one place to another.

CA XOsoft Content Distribution provides:

• Asynchronous host-based software replication that transfers only the 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
• Powerful remote installation wizard deploys CA XOsoft Content Distribution to any number of servers in a single step
• Powerful templating capabilities and configuration editor 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, for example sending music files to one target and video to another
• Non-intrusive updates to content that is in active use 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 ensure that issues requiring action are identified quickly
• Assessment mode measures exact change rate during 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, and branch office support.

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Content Delivery / Content Distribution

CA XOsoft Content Distribution is an ideal solution for distributing reference content to internal users throughout a distributed enterprise, such as price lists, policies, sales materials, manuals, news and other relevant information. By allowing content to be maintained in a single central repository with automatic delivery of any changes to target servers throughout the organization either immediately or on a scheduled basis, CA XOsoft Content Distribution easily eliminates the problem of out-of-sync field and branch office personnel.

The CA XOsoft Content Distribution content delivery solution allows you to serve external customers equally well, with some customers delivering dynamic information across thousands of servers. Its support for flexible connectivity aids in building content delivery networks that optimize bandwidth for the delivery of music, news, movies and any other kind of content.

Web Publishing — Microsoft Site Server Replacement

Our CA XOsoft Content Distribution content delivery product also provides content publishing and web publishing capabilities, and so 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, where newly developed material is placed, to one or many production servers where it is made available directly to users. Content can be delivered on a scheduled basis, at the point where the updated file is closed, or continuously, as best serves the needs of your application.

Information Collection

Even when operations are highly distributed, there is a need to gather a variety of kinds of information for central storage, processing and backup. Examples 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. Our content delivery software easily allows you to 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. CA XOsoft Replication is a 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 to leverage the enterprise resources already in place for backup and information management.

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Learn more about our branch office content consolidation solution by downloading a trial evaluation of our software. Be sure to view our recorded demonstration pertaining to our content distribution solution or contact us for information related to your specific content distribution and consolidation needs.

For consolidating backup of applications like Exchange, Oracle or SQL, check out CA XOsoft Assured Recovery Backup.

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CA XOsoft Content Distribution Benefits

Increased Organizational Effectiveness

Your company is operating in an information-driven economy and its effectiveness depends on getting the right information to the right people at the right time, whether that means delivering price lists, policies, or product information to your own people or updated images and data to your customers. CA XOsoft Content Distribution automates the process for you. It's 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 organization throughout the globe within seconds.

• Real-time or scheduled software replication of corporate data to branches, satellites and field personnel accelerates knowledge transfer and ensures that everyone in the organization is aligned
• Automated dynamic content delivery to portals and webservers for customers, suppliers and channel partners ensures that they see the data you want them to see today

Improved IT and Content Management Productivity

The advantages of a distributed enterprise can easily be overwhelmed by the costs of managing and coordinating information. Information must be delivered in a timely way to everyone who needs it. Branch and field data must be processed, managed and protected. CA XOsoft Content Distribution allows you to replace cumbersome processes with automated delivery and leverage the expertise and sophisticated equipment of your central data center to help support branch and field offices.

• Automation of content distribution, content delivery, and web publishing replaces cumbersome manual procedures and home-grown solutions
• Wizard for remote installation to many servers at once and power-editing of configuration settings on many scenarios at once dramatically reduces tedious and error-prone administrative tasks
• Consolidating file data from branch and field offices allows resources to be shared across offices for data processing and data protection
  • Eliminate backup headaches in branch offices
  • Leverage critical expertise, personnel, and equipment across locations
• Simple and intuitive configuration and management of multiple content distribution scenarios from a single GUI reduces management effort
• Clear GUI indicators of scenario status enable quick identification of potential issues
• Bandwidth control reduces WAN costs.

The Power of the CA XOsoft Content Distribution and Content Delivery Solution

CA XOsoft Content Distribution is high-performance software that can continuously replicate information repositories of any size between any number of locations worldwide. With support for arbitrary replication topologies, including fanning out into a tree hierarchy or chaining replication scenarios end to end, CA XOsoft Content Distribution can power distribution from one server to hundreds or thousands, or consolidation from many locations to one.

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In addition, while it is built on CA XOsoft Replication's engine, CA XOsoft Content Distribution has been augmented with capabilities that are specifically designed to support content delivery, branch office, web publishing (including Microsoft Site Server replacement) and content consolidation applications. Thus, unlike many competitive products, CA XOsoft Content Distribution supports multiple replication modes, including simple scheduled replication, replication only on file-close, and fully continuous replication of open files — in all cases only data that has changed is transferred. Special actions can be triggered upon delivery of new content, content can be distributed according to file type, and updates to files on target servers are done non-disruptively if a file is in active use.

The CA XOsoft Content Distribution content delivery and consolidation has a rich array of features to support your content distribution needs, including

Efficient Content Delivery and Web Publishing Replication Engine

• Flexible TCP/IP-based replication with support for three different modes to tailor to different project requirements
  • Scheduled replication of changed files
  • Replication of updated files when they are closed
  • Continuous real-time replication of open files
• Optimized WAN support enables cost-effective use of available networks and global reach for web publishing and content delivery
• Transferring only the changes to data minimizes required bandwidth during content distribution
• Non-intrusive update of content that is in active use on the target server

Ease of Management for Reduced Content Delivery Complexity and Cost

• Ability to manage through a single central management GUI or multiple local GUIs, as appropriate
• Ability to perform 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

Excellent Integration with IT Environment

• Full support of Microsoft clusters and both 32- and 64-bit architectures
• Multi-OS and cross-platform replication support, including Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris
• Bandwidth throttling
• Support for any file type
• Hardware independence for content distribution, content delivery and web publishing
• Full integration with standard security models
• Only point-to-point connectivity/authentication required for content distribution
• Assessment mode measures exact change rate during evaluation to aid in estimating bandwidth requirements

Rich, Flexible Content Distribution Options

• Filtering by filename and automatic selection of target server based on content type
• Scripts triggered by updates to specific files allow special actions to be taken on new content
• Ability to run scripts before and after scheduled synchronization 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

Powerful Reporting Mechanisms for Content Distribution and Web Publishing

• Comprehensive XML-based reporting
  • Can be integrated directly with a database system for processing
• Reporting and notification routing through email and system logs

To become more familiar with the CA XOsoft Content Distribution solution, view the recorded demonstration or download a trial evaluation of our software. Contact us for answers to any questions you might have or to understand how CA XOsoft Content Distribution can address your specific content distribution, content consolidation or web publishing needs.