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Laying the groundwork for federated records management

01 May 2008 — KM World
"We found that CA Records Manager is one of the few products that works well with Lotus Notes," Reilly says

Transportation giant in SOA for the long haul

07 Apr 2008 — SearchSOA.com
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) evolved through intelligent design at Con-way Inc.

A mainframe revival? CA talks mainframe growth, value

02 Apr 2008 — SearchDataCenter
In this interview, O'Malley discusses mainframe growth, value and some of its persisting hurdles, including software costs and application sprawl.

Protective Order

01 Apr 2008 — State Tech Magazine
“Using [CA’s XOsoft High Availability] would have saved us trips into New Orleans during Katrina,” says Haas.

Survey Shows IT Leaders Lack Confidence in Virtualization

01 Apr 2008 — Systems Management News
Survey results from management-software maker CA show that IT leaders are turning to server virtualization in large numbers, but many are unable to say whether their virtualization deployments are successful.

Best of breed vs. suite approach in systems management

26 Mar 2008 — SearchDataCenter
For the outsourcing division of Ciber Inc., an IT services firm based in Greenwood Village, Colo., ditching various point solutions for a bevy of tools from CA was central to a modernization project in its four data centers.

Review: CA ARCserve Backup 12

01 Mar 2008 — PC Pro UK
Verdict: This latest version of ARCserve delivers a wealth of new features, good value, excellent centralised management and unbeatable performance.

IT Governance: The Holy Grail or Wholly Possible?

01 Mar 2008 — DM Review Magazine
IT governance is not a plug-and-play application. It is a journey requiring executive commitment, continuous improvement, effective process management and organizational buy-in.

Rightsizing Service Cost Models, Part II

28 Feb 2008 — ITSMWatch.com
Hear how to design effective and efficient IT service cost models

Yell gains clarity on projects

27 Feb 2008 — IT Week
Yell has been using project portfolio management tools to help allocate resources and identify skills gaps for more than a decade. The company now plans to upgrade the Clarity suite from CA to version 8.1

Businesses need to see a bigger picture

27 Feb 2008 — IT Week
David Groves, European governance business unit head for management software specialist CA, discusses the current project and portfolio management technology landscape.

Who's Afraid of the "Consumerization of IT"?

23 Feb 2008 — CIO Magazine
I think the perceptive CIO today must actively be seeking ways to transform their rigid, legacy-ridden infrastructures and push service based models into agile, efficient, service-driven delivery mechanisms.

IT Governance: Taking It from the Top

22 Feb 2008 — IT Business Edge
An interview with CA's Rob Stroud, vice president for IT Service Management and IT Governance Evangelist.

Telstra's transformation drive begins with Clarity

18 Feb 2008 — Computerworld Australia
Who said elephants can’t dance? Telstra is now using a single application for project management across its wider enterprise

CA and VMware team up for the environment

18 Feb 2008 — iTnews Australia
At the recent CA Expo 2008 – 360° Vision, CA presented several seminars relevant to the current climate in the IT industry, including a joint presentation with VMware on the virtues of adopting green business practices.

Study Highlights Use, Challenges, and Future of Virtualization

12 Feb 2008 — Enterprise Systems
Independent survey reveals gap between virtualization’s importance and IT’s confidence in managing it effectively

CIOs not confident managing virtual servers, survey finds

12 Feb 2008 — Network World
More than half of CIOs surveyed by CA don't think their companies are doing an effective job managing virtual environments

CA Surveys 300 IT Execs

12 Feb 2008 — InformationWeek
This one's going in my 'keeper' file.

Many IT Admins Still Not Sold on Virtualization

12 Feb 2008 — eWeek
The study, conducted independently and sponsored by software management provider CA, found that the most important capabilities when managing a server virtualization environment are performance/utilization, security and automation.

CA Recovery Management r12 converges backup, high availability and DR - and maybe the market

11 Feb 2008 — IT-DIRECTOR.COM
The above does little more than scratch the surface of a huge package of upgrades, more attractive because they are logical and fit with the trend to centralised management within larger enterprises.

The 360-Degree View for IT: Hype or Hope?

08 Feb 2008 — CIO Magazine
But to take the 360-degree view from beyond hype to making it real for IT – it needs to incorporate what I like to call a "unified service model" (or USM, for short).

Review: CA's ARCserve Backup r12

07 Feb 2008 — CRN
At its base, ARCserve is CA's backup automation software. But in r12, the company has woven in a comprehensive software license management utility, centralized job management and centralized device management.

CA's Road Back

07 Feb 2008 — The Chart blog
Engineers at the Islandia, N.Y.-based company were eager to put their newest software, ARCserve Backup r12, into the hands of reviewers in the CMP Channel Test Center.

Thinning Out the Hay: Proactive Information Governance and the Impact on Discovery

05 Feb 2008 — KM World
For one, it pointed out the obvious: Organizations should know where their content is.

IT's own system of record - ERP4IT

05 Feb 2008 — CIO Magazine
What's truly needed is an alternative approach for ERP4IT, whereby an IT management system is architected as a loosely-coupled set of sub-systems revolving around a "Unified Service Model" (USM).

SOA data services for workers' comp rehabs mainframe

04 Feb 2008 — SearchSOA.com
In this way Pickett has used CA Gen to deliver more than 100 reusable mainframe services, consisting of CICS transactions.

CA Reinvigorating its Mainframe Software Line

29 Jan 2008 — Enterprise Systems
Add it all up, they argue, and you have a company that's making good on its promise of a turnaround.

CA aiming to ease mainframe software licensing costs

23 Jan 2008 — SearchDataCenter
CA Inc. has announced a new mainframe product licensing scheme to address a dire issue for mainframe users: software costs.

Case Study: CCH Uses CA Plex 6.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to create Sales Tax Office running on Microsoft .NET Framework.

11 Jan 2008 — Microsoft Corporation
Case Study: CCH Uses CA Plex 6.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to create Sales Tax Office

Comparative Review: Continuous Data Protection

01 Jan 2008 — WindowsITPro
My Editor’s Choice goes to CA XOsoft WANSyncHA for its ease of use, for its effective failover and failback feature set, and for the balance it strikes between effective data protection and system resource requirements.

How financial services firms can manage IT during the credit crisis

01 Jan 2008 — FST EU
Five best practices to do more with less

Customer experience on show

01 Jan 2008 — FST EU
FST looks at how a bank’s service is now being publicly scrutinized – and what this means.

VARs: The 'New' CA Channel Is Working

10 Dec 2007 — CRN
The channel program that CA introduced in North America earlier this year has met the developer's expectations and surpassed those of some of its solution provider partners.

Privacy alert: Cookie variants can be used to skirt blockers, anti-spyware tools

05 Dec 2007 — Computerworld
Maintaining privacy is getting harder for Web surfers

Why IT Needs a Blueprint: The Case for a Unified Service Model

04 Dec 2007 — CIO Magazine
The concept of an “IT blueprint” has been a long-time coming, but its time appears to have finally arrived.

Beacon's user tracking extends beyond Facebook, CA says

03 Dec 2007 — Computerworld
Facebook Inc.'s controversial Beacon ad system tracks activities from all users in its third-party partner sites, including people who never signed up with Facebook or who have deactivated their accounts, CA Inc. has found.

Facebook Admits Ad Service Tracks Logged-Off Users

03 Dec 2007 — IDG
Facebook has confirmed findings of a CA security researcher that the social-networking site's Beacon ad service is more intrusive and stealthy than previously acknowledged, an admission that contradicts statements made previously by Facebook executives and representatives.

Facebook's Beacon More Intrusive Than Previously Thought

30 Nov 2007 — IDG
A CA security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than expected in tracking people's Web activities.

CA Tries to Ease Identity Access Management for SOAs

16 Nov 2007 — eWeek
CA's IAM r12 promises to simplify regulatory compliance with automated access management capabilities, policy analysis and reporting.

Taming the Extended Ecosystem: 10 Best Practices for Managing Mobile Devices

15 Nov 2007 — Mobile Enterprise Magazine
The following is a call to action, with 10 best practices that every IT organization should consider as mobile devices continue to proliferate and become increasingly important to corporate employees.

FSTC Launches Records Management Initiative

14 Nov 2007 — Business Wire
Project Team to Focus on Technologies, Architectures, and Best Practices for Unstructured Content

Stony Brook’s Center of Excellence in Wireless & IT, CEWIT, Chooses Advisory Board Chairperson

13 Nov 2007 — CA, Inc.
Russell Artzt, Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of CA, to Assume Position

Mobile device management now a top priority for vendors

07 Nov 2007 — SearchMobileComputing
Mobile device management has recently become a prime target for several vendors that had little or no play in the mobility arena, with marquee vendors like Microsoft and CA coming out of the woodwork to offer device support.

Why Legacy Databases Are Here to Stay

06 Nov 2007 — Enterprise Systems
Last week, rival CA announced a new version of one of its pre-relational DBMSes, the venerable IDMS.

CA Delivers The Back-End For BlackBerry Addicts

05 Nov 2007 — internetnews.com
CA, which exceeded analyst estimates in its latest quarter and raised full-year sales and earnings projections last week, plans to expand MDM to other platforms starting with Symbian devices sometime next year.

DHS mainframe data enters Web world

05 Nov 2007 — Government Computer News
Relational database centralizes storage while granting other agencies secure access

CA Puts BlackBerry in Order

02 Nov 2007 — eWeek
CA's new tool aims to ease management of large BlackBerry deployments.

CA Bolsters Turnaround Story

01 Nov 2007 — TheStreet.com
During a fourth consecutive quarter of turnaround performance, the company has "made another significant advance in transforming CA," CEO John Swainson said on a conference call.

Extending the SCM Value Chain by Unifying PPM and Configuration Management

14 Oct 2007 — CM Crossroads
The time is right for a universal service model that bridges the information gap between Operations, Project Management, and Development solutions.

Top 6 Pitfalls to Avoid When Implementing a CMDB

12 Oct 2007 — ITSMWatch.com
By avoiding these pitfalls, organizations can significantly increase the likelihood of a successful CMDB implementation, writes ITSM Watch guest columnist Randal Locke of CA.

CA Unveils Compliance Automation and Governance Management Tool

09 Oct 2007 — Enterprise Systems
CA positions GRC Manager as the industry's first portfolio-based solution for IT governance and risk management

Does CA have the Lead in Governance?

06 Oct 2007 — Have Mac Will Blog (.com)
What interests me particularly about this product is that - as far as I can tell - it’s ahead of the field in addressing the increasing pains of compliance, and it also has a strategic edge to it.

CA Move Takes on IT Risk, Security

05 Oct 2007 — eWeek
CA pulls the covers off two products to help organizations manage risk and compliance.

ROBO Cop: Reducing Business Risk with Remote Recovery Management

01 Oct 2007 — Storage Networking World
To realize the benefits of a remote workforce while minimizing the risk, organizations need to implement recovery management practices that centralize management of ROBO backup and disaster recovery.

British Airways boosts monitoring of critical systems

27 Sep 2007 — Computerworld UK
SAN tool should cut downtime risks

Talking About IT's Business Value

26 Sep 2007 — CIO Magazine
Lots of CIOs talk the “business value of IT” talk, but few walk the walk better than Dave Hansen, CIO for CA, the enterprise software vendor.

CA XOsoft Delivers Continuity Confidence

25 Sep 2007 — Enterprise Systems
Finally, he discovered CA XOsoft and its concept of geo-clustering.

Management vendors team on configuration spec

21 Aug 2007 — Network World
The CMDB Federation announces draft specification to enable configuration data sharing among multiple third-party systems

Federated CMDB spec proposed

21 Aug 2007 — Computer Bus. Review Online
Seeking to provide a solution to a potential bottleneck in IT infrastructure configuration data, the key powers that be in the systems management space have banded together to propose a standard for federating data from ITIL-compliant CMDB repositories.

CA Updates IT Service Catalog; Service Accounting

07 Aug 2007 — eWeek.com
The new version of CA's Unicenter Service Catalog includes an enhanced Web sales interface.

CA Unveils Unicenter Service Catalog For IT Services

06 Aug 2007 — InformationWeek
Software provider CA on Monday rolled out a new release of its Unicenter Service Catalog, which is designed to deliver IT services in terms that are understandable to businesses as opposed to complex IT terms

CA Adds .NET Support to Plex Tooling

01 Aug 2007 — Computer Bus. Review Online
This is really an oldie but goodie

CA's Dev Tool Supports SOA and Legacy Systems

31 Jul 2007 — ADTmag.com
CA is offering a Windows-based application development solution, called Plex r6, which supports the use of objects across service-oriented architectures and legacy client-server architectures.

CA Making House Calls Easier For PC Docs

12 Jul 2007 — Investor's Business Daily
Being the provider of such a kit could be good for its own business, particularly its security business, figured software maker CA. So it built an online service portal stuffed with anti-virus and other software goodies and now used by many tech repair services.

CA network tool can pick up human error

27 Jun 2007 — ZDNet
The latest version of CA's network fault-management software is able to analyse human error and technical issues at the same time.

CA Releases CA ERwin Data Modeler r7.2

26 Jun 2007 — Database Journal
According to CA, they have the first data modeling tool that integrates tightly with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals.

CA's Spectrum tool now looks at human errors

25 Jun 2007 — Network World
The latest version of CA Inc.'s Spectrum network management software can factor in human errors when gauging the health of a network.

CA's Spectrum Links Network Configuration, Fault Management

25 Jun 2007 — eWeek
CA will put a new twist on an old network fault monitoring tool when it adds new features to its CA Spectrum.

CA Upgrades Spectrum Fault-Management Software

25 Jun 2007 — InformationWeek
What CA has done is linked its fault-management software to performance management and to configuration management.

CA adds configuration management to network monitoring

25 Jun 2007 — Computer Bus. Review Online
CA is adding what it calls 'change awareness' to its new version 8.1 of its Spectrum offering.

CA Enhances Modeling Tool for SQL Server

19 Jun 2007 — ADTmag.com
ERwin Data Modeler r7.2 lets users more easily "discover unplanned or unscheduled model changes"

CA Erwin Data Modeler Improves Productivity and Control

18 Jun 2007 — Enterprise Systems
Integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals

CA ERwin Data Modeler r7.2 Released

18 Jun 2007 — Dr. Dobb's Portal
New version is the first data modeling tool integrated with VS2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals.

Functional Convergence: eDiscovery and Records Management

12 Jun 2007 — Document
The linkage between eDiscovery and records management is gaining acceptance as organizations look to increase efficiency and comply with the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure enacted last December.

The Genius of Automated Application Quality Management

01 Apr 2007 — CMG Journal
Automating your application quality management provides visibility and foresight to help prevent into potential issues on the application layer which could tax the company’s fiscal, CPU, and personnel resources.

Top Ten Reasons to Implement Automated Application

01 Jan 2007 — IBM Systems Magazine
Automated AQM, while new, works because it helps get the most performance out of existing machines and avoids the traditional solution of "throwing money at the problem."