ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA Technologies
(Nasdaq: CA) today announced the general availability of five
products in the powerful CA Virtual portfolio, which offer
comprehensive management capabilities designed to help increase
business agility by providing a better way to provision, control,
assure, secure and optimize virtual environments. The five products
announced today are CA Virtual Assurance, CA Virtual Automation, CA
Virtual Configuration, CA Virtual Assurance for Infrastructure
Managers, and CA Virtual Privilege Manager. The company also
introduced the CA Virtual Foundation Suite, which combines select
virtualization management products at a compelling price point.
"The CA Technologies virtualization management portfolio is the
ideal fit for customers looking to improve the efficiency, quality,
and agility of their virtualized and private cloud environments,"
said Roger Pilc, general manager of
the Virtualization and Automation customer solutions unit at CA
Technologies. "Our portfolio is designed from the ground up to
deliver new levels of speed and flexibility; anytime, anywhere
application development and delivery in a variety of environments;
exceptional manageability, service assurance, and security; all of
which can help to significantly lower cost and provide a compelling
ROI."
Today's offerings from CA Technologies are designed to help
eliminate the VM stall faced by many organizations today. After
virtualizing the "low-hanging fruit," which typically means the
conversion of no more than 20 to 30 percent of physical servers to
virtual machines, a variety of factors can conspire to stall
progress, including: complex application and infrastructure
performance issues, security and compliance concerns, concerns
regarding uncontrolled VM sprawl, capacity management complexity,
staffing and skill levels.
Many organizations in virtualization stall never manage to
virtualize their tier 2, tier 1, and mission-critical systems.
Stuck at the first stage on the virtualization maturity curve,
these organizations are unable to leverage the entry-level benefits
of server consolidation into infrastructure optimization,
automation and orchestration, and the promise of a dynamic data
center and private cloud. This in turn means that they fail to
realize the full scope of benefits from virtualization: not just
cost reduction, but also business and IT agility, management
efficiency, market responsiveness, service improvements, and
staffing benefits.
General Availability of CA Virtual Products
First unveiled at CA World on May 17, 2010, the CA
virtualization management portfolio is designed to help emerging
and large enterprises overcome virtual stall by providing a better
way to provision, control, assure, secure and optimize complex
virtualized environments. The CA Virtual portfolio features several
solutions specifically designed to deliver robust virtualization
management capabilities for virtualization-focused administrators.
The portfolio also offers more advanced capabilities for
integrating specialized virtualization management into the
end-to-end management of hybrid physical and virtual systems,
networks, storage and applications, as well as connecting IT
infrastructure with business policies and priorities.
New Security Capabilities Expand CA Virtual
CA Technologies today broadened its CA Virtual portfolio by
adding a new security solution – CA Virtual Privilege Manager.
The use of virtual environments in data centers has grown
rapidly and organizations have begun to use virtualization to help
streamline their operations and reduce their operating costs.
However, regardless of whether it is a physical or virtual
environment, the need for security remains.
"According to Gartner, 'through 2012, 60 percent of virtualized
servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace,
dropping to 30 percent by the end of 2015'*," added Pilc. "CA
Technologies believes as virtual server use continues to grow,
organizations run the risk of losing control of their environments
and the potential for malicious activity or user error increases
dramatically."
Leveraging CA Technologies position as a leader in both virtual
systems management and security management, CA Virtual Privilege
Manager is designed to control privileged access to virtual
environments by securing console access to the hypervisor and
managing privileged access to all of the virtual images running on
the virtualization server as well as the service console. Key
capabilities of the solution include privileged user password
management for the virtual machines and service console,
fine-grained administrative access controls to the hypervisor
service console, service console hardening, and original user
activity monitoring in virtual environments.
Compelling New Suite Offering
CA Virtual Foundation Suite is a combined offering of CA Virtual
Assurance, CA Virtual Automation, and CA Virtual Configuration. The
suite, which offers a discount on the individual products, is aimed
at the significant proportion of organizations that have embarked
on virtualization projects without an enterprise-class management
foundation, and as a result, are facing a potential firestorm of
poor performance, resourcing gaps, and damaged business confidence.
CA Virtual Foundation Suite changes the game by offering the
virtualization management foundation that can ease adoption and
broaden expansion, as well as help drive both immediate and
long-term business results.
For more information about the CA virtualization management
portfolio, visit http://www.ca.com/us/virtual.aspx.
* Source: Gartner, Inc., "Addressing the Most Common Security
Risks in Data Center Virtualization Projects", Neil MacDonald, 25
January 2010.
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solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from
mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to
deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative
products and services provide the insight and control essential for
IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT
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