Virtualization

A well-devised enterprise virtualization management strategy ensures agility, quality, efficiency and mitigation of IT and business risk. 

Successful virtualization aligns with enterprise IT management, providing the ability to manage holistic virtualized environments. 

Both virtual and physical environments must be managed simultaneously, in real-time using an object model based approach to present the active state of health by leveraging strong root-cause analytics associated across the breadth of assets all with a solid architectural approach.

A sound approach includes:

• Managing heterogeneous environments, while also leveraging both virtual network and systems in one object model context — deriving accurate root-cause regardless of platform.
• Seamlessly extending into the cloud, enabling versatile management through provisioning between internal virtualized private clouds and external public clouds.
• Mitigating risk in virtual environments through real-time change management for the governing of automation rules.
• Instilling self-service enablement to reduce lengthy provisioning cycles through managing virtualization to leverage resources and capacity for the user’s needs quickly through automation.

CA can help you dramatically improve agility by accelerating data center virtualization provisioning, through real-time change management capabilities for dynamic virtualized environments, by offering the ability to dynamically extend workload automation to virtualized environments, and through powerful cloud provisioning and monitoring. Learn more about:

• CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager
• CA Spectrum Automation Manager
• CA AutoSys Workload Automation
• Virtualization Management

If you need enhanced service quality and business alignment to ensure virtual asset performance and availability, want to avoid configuration errors impacting service quality, and want improve availability, business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, these products can help:

• CA  XOsoft™
• CA ARCserve® Backup

We can help you increase IT efficiency through increased utilization, reduced energy consumption and reduced overhead costs achievable through automation. You can also dramatically improve asset management, expand mainframe virtualization and support high availability and disaster recovery in virtualized environments using:

• CA Spectrum Automation Manager
• CA VM:Manager Management Suite for Mainframe Linux
• CA VM:Operator™ for z/VM

We can help you manage transaction performance and service quality in complex composite application environments that span both physical and virtualized infrastructure. Providing the actual end-user experience view of transaction performance allows you to map the transaction to both the infrastructure and business value for proactive problem avoidance and rapid problem resolution from the browser across distributed, virtualized, cloud and mainframe environments.

• CA Wily Application Performance Management

We can help you proactively secure and report on the sensitive data and critical systems in your virtual infrastructure without impacting normal business and IT activities. We also centralize and archive security event data from across the virtual enterprise and streamline log analysis and reporting to reduce the cost of proving compliance.

• CA Access Control
• CA DLP
• CA Enterprise Log Manager

We can help you increase the visibility and control you need to maintain service levels, manage changes and understand the relationship of assets to IT services delivered in a virtualized environment. We can help you inventory and manage virtualized assets. We can enable change management and change impact analysis of virtualized systems. And we can help you aggregate virtualized silos into a Service Catalog for service cost, request and fulfillment. Learn more about:

• CA Service Desk Manager
• CA Service Level, Catalog & Accounting
• CA IT Client Manager

We can help you centralize and unify your compliance information and activities, regardless of the underlying platform (physical, virtual or cloud). This helps you eliminate compliance silos that hinder effective management of your compliance programs and improves your visibility across all of your compliance and risk programs, enabling you to identify emerging risks before they become serious.

• CA GRC Manager