CA WORLD 2008, LAS VEGAS, November 17, 2008 – CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that CA Data Center Automation Manager now addresses the needs of consumers and providers of cloud services. The solution helps enterprise IT organizations and cloud computing providers deliver, scale, and manage dynamic computing resources on demand.
Similar to enterprise IT data centers, cloud computing environments are increasingly complex and struggle to meet changing business demands because of the level of abstraction created by virtualization and other emerging technologies. Management is key to providing accurate availability and performance data, as well as enabling real-time provisioning that automatically provides the capacity needed to meet service demands.
CA Data Center Automation Manager enables real-time provisioning and performance management between on-premise and off-premise clouds, ensuring real-time resource allocation control, network availability, and service level management of cloud-based service offerings. Through the solution’s automated provisioning, performance, and resource self-service capabilities, customers can use CA Data Center Automation Manager to help speed cloud service deployments, increase operational efficiencies, improve IT agility and service quality, and mitigate IT and business risks.
“Enterprises and cloud computing providers increasingly rely on each other to obtain real-time IT resources based on dynamic business demands,” said Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA’s Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. “CA Data Center Automation Manager helps consumers and providers of cloud services manage the growth that is currently outpacing infrastructure resources through automation, virtualization management, and in-depth performance management. The solution helps to increase margins and enhance business value by compressing data center provisioning processes and improving management capabilities.”
“Cloud computing providers will only be successful if they focus on deep management and automation technologies,” said Tom Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner. “To deliver highly available services, cloud computing providers and enterprise IT organizations should leverage technologies that automate operational processes and reduce the risk of human error that could cause downtime and damage customer satisfaction.”
CA Data Center Automation Manager enables enterprise IT organizations, Infrastructure Utility providers, business process outsourcers, and cloud computing providers to automate the provisioning and monitoring of cloud computing resources to allow for overflow capacity during peak demands, rapid, policy-based response to business demands, more dynamic failover, and highly efficient infrastructure. This helps customers gain data center efficiencies for provisioning and computing resource allocation that lower costs and improve margins on service offerings.
CA’s participation in the VMware Ready Program, focusing on product interoperability, and the company’s support for the VMware vCloud strategic direction, complements CA Data Center Automation Manager’s ability to manage cloud computing environments.
“The VMware platform provides a foundation for highly available and agile cloud computing regardless of whether customers want to utilize an internal cloud or leverage off-premise compute capacity,” said Shekar Ayyar, vice president of infrastructure alliances, VMware. “VMware and CA are working together to provide management solutions for cloud providers that are well integrated with and extend the management functionality of VMware vCenter.”
“As a global service provider, it is paramount to strategically differentiate our services for increased value and satisfaction for our clients,” said Tony Ferrigno, CIBER’s vice president of Global Sales and Strategy. “CA Data Center Automation Manager allows CIBER to integrate and automate our solutions while delivering the best service levels at a competitive price point. We can now increase our service levels to our clients and improve our revenue and operating margins by providing this additional integrated solution to our clients.”
“Virtualization and CA Data Center Automation Manager will enable our IT organization to implement a resources-as-a-service model that enhances our agility, allowing us to respond faster to business demands at lower costs,” said David Brattain, senior vice president of Systems, EITM and Production Support for Elavon. “Our staff is preparing to implement the CA solution to automatically provision and schedule multiplatform environments to develop and test new, business-critical software applications on demand.”
CA Data Center Automation Manager’s cloud management capability is another example of how CA Enterprise IT Management solutions help organizations drive business value from IT and effectively improve IT economics. With CA solutions in place, such as CA Data Center Automation Manager, customers are able to respond more quickly and efficiently to changing conditions and capitalize on emerging business opportunities. The solutions that CA is announcing at CA World 2008 help customers lower the total cost of ownership of IT by providing faster time-to-value and reducing IT costs through better integration, automation and control.
For more information about how CA’s EITM solutions maximize the business value of virtualization, please visit www.ca.com/virtual. A White Paper is also available entitled “Preparing for Cloud Computing: The Managed Services Revolution.”
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