ISLANDIA, N.Y., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprises and managed
service providers (MSPs) are facing a major shift in IT as cloud
computing innovation drives quicker and more efficient delivery of
business services. To help companies get to the cloud fast, CA
Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) offers a unique, revolutionary,
application-centric approach with CA 3Tera® AppLogic®, its turnkey
cloud computing platform. CA 3Tera AppLogic helps organizations
increase business agility, reduce risks associated with cloud
deployments, and enter new markets more quickly than previously
possible. Version 2.9 of CA 3Tera AppLogic will be available this
month.
"With cloud computing reshaping the way IT delivers services to
business users, the perception of IT as a cost center is giving way
to an appreciation of IT's true role as a powerful growth engine
for the business," said Adam
Famularo, general manager, Cloud Computing, CA Technologies.
"Our customers are rolling out business services in a completely
new way with CA 3Tera AppLogic and the click of a mouse – and as a
result, they are gaining a competitive edge, attracting new
customers, and improving IT economics and responsiveness."
CA 3Tera AppLogic Platform Improves How IT Delivers Business
Services
CA 3Tera AppLogic is designed to empower customers to build
cloud infrastructure in as little as four hours, and then pull from
a catalog of reusable applications to rapidly compose, deploy and
manage complex, online applications, significantly reducing
time-to-market for new business services. Instead of provisioning
expensive hardware infrastructure and relying on error-prone and
time-consuming manual tasks, customers can create new applications
by simply "dragging and dropping" components, without making a
physical trip to the data center.
"CA 3Tera AppLogic has literally changed the way we do business
– not just reducing the rote manual work, but also improving our
flexibility, helping us create new services and control the cost of
service for our customers," commented Jonathan Davis, CTO of DNS Europe. "Very quickly
we have been able to ramp up new revenue streams and win new
customers with even higher expectations and more complex needs."
More than 80 companies are using this technology today, running
over 400 public and private clouds on four continents. Several
customers, including Cirrhus9, Contegix, DNS Europe, Kualo, Layered
Tech and Radix Technologies, are now offering new on-demand
services relying on CA 3Tera AppLogic for differentiated
Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service (IaaS, PaaS and
SaaS) and virtual private data center offerings.
The CA 3Tera AppLogic platform uses commodity hardware to
combine compute resources, storage, networking, high availability,
security and policy management into a single system that is managed
through one intuitive interface, something well understood in the
mainframe world, but relatively unique to the way distributed
systems operate today.
With CA 3Tera AppLogic, enterprises can more easily move
applications and their supporting infrastructure from development
and test environments to full production, by dragging-and-dropping
from one environment to another, eliminating the need to replicate
configurations manually. Customers also gain flexibility to
better manage spikes in demand for existing applications by easily
adding capacity or compute resources as needed, and they can
quickly provision a private cloud environment from scratch.
"Cloud computing enables customers to share infrastructure
resources and dynamically match IT costs to business requirements.
In order to reap all of the benefits that cloud computing offers,
IT professionals need to standardize, simplify and automate how
they provision and manage end-to-end business services," said
Mary Johnston Turner, research
director at IDC. "CA 3Tera AppLogic addresses this set of
requirements by helping organizations to reduce operational
complexity by automating rapid deployment of complex applications
and associated infrastructure."
Key Features of CA 3Tera AppLogic
CA 3Tera AppLogic is designed to help MSPs and enterprises
streamline the application configuration and deployment process
with the creation of composite business services. Each
service contains the tools needed for the application to run,
including infrastructure, configurations, software, code and data.
From a user-friendly interface, customers can then easily
manage composite services as one object to start, stop, replicate,
copy, backup, or even migrate the entire business service to a
different data center for business continuity.
New features planned in CA 3Tera AppLogic 2.9 include high
availability for networking, increased IP flexibility and security,
improved storage health monitoring, increased support for database
replication, and full compatibility with previous versions of the
platform.
This release is intended to be the next step in delivering on CA
Technologies' vision for the Cloud-Connected Management Suite
announced earlier this year. CA 3Tera AppLogic 2.9 product details
are available here.
Additional features include:
- Ability to Create Composite Business Services – Designed
to manage the application and the associated infrastructure needed
to deploy the application as a single unit – called a composite
business service. It quickly and repeatedly implements
composite business services as needed, and optimizes the underlying
storage, hardware, network configuration and resource allocation on
behalf of the service.
- Rapid Implementation – Initial cloud installations can
be achieved in as little as four hours, and new production services
can be up and running in less than 30 days. Once installed on two
or more x86 servers, customers have a private cloud environment to
run new or existing applications.
- Comprehensive High Availability – Provides high
availability for the cloud system and all of the applications that
run on it, including storage mirroring across multiple servers to
help ensure that a server failure never results in data loss; high
availability for networking (planned for 2.9) and the cloud
controller; and replication features built into the catalog
appliances. Users can run two identical instances of an application
on the same environment, or in different data centers, providing a
standby that is available to take on the user load, should the
primary instance fail.
- Network Security – Designed with a zero-trust security
model, users visually define the network connections between all
application components for each service. The system is
designed to enforce complete network traffic inspection, packet by
packet on every connection, ensuring that if a network connection
is not identified in the service definition, the packets are
dropped.
- Virtual SAN – As part of the cloud fabric, CA 3Tera
AppLogic creates and manages a virtual IP SAN using the directly
attached storage on the available servers. It manages
redundancy and failover without the complexity and cost to
implement a traditional SAN. This allows application volumes to
move with a workload around the cloud, or between clouds,
automatically and securely.
- Reusable Library of Services – Users can build a
composite business service, configure it, and save it as a single
entity in the expandable CA 3Tera AppLogic catalog for easy reuse
later. Customers can build applications once, and in mere
seconds deploy a new copy. This "build once, reuse many
times" approach for standard, often-repeated deployments reduces
redundancy and helps improve efficiency, giving customers more time
to focus on strategic projects.
- Cost Efficiency – Designed to be a cost-effective
solution for enterprises and MSPs, enabling open source and
standards. Customers can reduce expenses on managing
traditional hardware infrastructure and bring existing online
applications to the cloud without code modifications.
For more information about CA 3Tera AppLogic and CA Technologies
cloud offerings, please visit:
- Online Media Kit:
http://ca.com/content/press/CA-3Tera-AppLogic-Media-Kit.aspx
- CA 3Tera AppLogic 2.9 Technical Overview:
http://community.ca.com/blogs/cloud/archive/2010/10/04/technical-post.aspx
- CA 3Tera MSP Cloud Program: http://www.3tera.com/msp
- On the Web: http://www.ca.com/cloud and
http://www.3tera.com
- The CA Cloud Storm Chasers Blog:
http://community.ca.com/blogs/cloud
- @CA_Cloud on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CA_Cloud
- On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CATechnologies
- Cloud Commons Community: http://www.cloudcommons.com
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mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
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IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
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