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CA INFORMATION GOVERNANCE OFFERS INFRASTRUCTURE-AGNOSTIC APPROACH TO COMPLIANCE AND DISCOVERY NEEDS

Contact: Michael Kornspan (631) 342-2463, or michael.kornspan@ca.com

CA information governance OFFERS INFRASTRUCTURE-AGNOSTIC APPROACH TO COMPLIANCE AND DISCOVERY NEEDS

Prepackaged and Department of Defense 5015.2-Certified Integrations Streamline Deployment and Ensure Quick Access to Relevant Content

ISLANDIA, N.Y., October 8, 2007 – CA (NYSE: CA) today announced a comprehensive information governance solution that enables customers to reduce risk and help fulfill their compliance, legal and business requirements by providing secure, accurate, timely access to information across multi-vendor environmentswithout the need to modify or replace existing repositories or business processes.

CA Information Governance uniquely offers infrastructure-agnostic, “in place” records management and enterprise discovery, as well as broad range of pre-packaged and Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2-certified integrations with other repositories. It enables customers to manage email archive content in accordance with corporate retention policies, to consistently apply policy and controls to all content, and to classify content based on its business value—regardless of where it resides.

CA is leveraging technology and expertise from both iLumin and MDY to deliver this innovative solution—highlighting the long-term strategic value of these two acquisitions to CA and its customers.

“To reduce risk and fulfill their legal, regulatory, and corporate obligations, organizations need to find the easiest, least disruptive, and most cost-effective way to manage mushrooming volumes of critical business information,”said Galina Datskovsky, Certified Records Manager (CRM) and senior vice president of development at CA. “CA’s infrastructure-agnostic approach meets all these requirements by empowering customers to establish an Information Governance platform that can evolve with their ever-changing IT strategies and business needs.”

Many companies cannot effectively manage, control and discover information because it is often dispersed across a wide range of systems and locations—including document management systems, collaboration systems, email archives, and physical documents. In some cases, such as litigation-related discovery, inadequate responses to information requests carry significant business risk.

According to Gartner, “Due to litigation and regulations, the cost of managing information risks or recovering from their mismanagement is increasing exponentially. To reduce those risks, legal departments and IT organizations must work closely together to improve information governance.” *

Other solutions have historically forced businesses to implement information governance through proprietary hardware and legacy content systems—an approach that invariably drives up complexity and cost. In sharp contrast, CA’s open, extensible and lightweight platform eases access to all types of content in all types of systems—thereby reducing cost, ensuring adaptability to changes in content systems, accelerating time to benefit, and ensuring the ability to execute on even the most ambitious information governance strategies.

CA Information Governance includes:

- Centralized policy management for controlling physical, electronic and email records across the enterprise to ensure consistency and lower costs.

- Comprehensive email management consisting of integrated records management, mailbox management, eDiscovery and supervision capabilities so organizations can archive, manage and track email as a part of their total information governance strategy.

- Automated data discovery, classification and management across heterogeneous storage environments to improve operational efficiency.

“We depend on the CA Information Governance technology to enforce critical record retention policies for firm-wide physical and electronic records,” said Maureen Durack, management information systems director at Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, P. C., a Chicago-based business-oriented law firm which specializes in corporate services, labor and employment services and litigation. “The ability to use federated records management to manage email and other content across our firm is essential to cost-effectively meeting our firm and client retention policies and requirements.”

CA was recently named a “Leader” in the records management market by Forrester Research in the “Forrester Wave™: Records Management, Q1 2007” report (see http://www.ca.com/us/press/release.aspx?cid=135411).

For more information on CA’s Information Governance, please visit http://www.ca.com/solutions/infogov.

* Gartner, Inc. “Hype Cycle for Legal and Regulatory Information Governance,” John Bace, Toby Bell, French Caldwell, Kenneth Chin Jay Heiser, Lou Latham, Debra Logan, David Newman, Eric Ouellet, Paul Proctor, John Radcliffe, Andrew White, July 16, 2007.

About CA

CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com.

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