ISLANDIA, N.Y., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (Nasdaq:
CA) today announced a next-generation CA Automation Suite to help
customers with their journey to a virtualized, dynamic cloud
computing infrastructure. The Suite is designed to offer a
comprehensive, business service-centric approach to the dynamic
deployment and elastic scaling of IT infrastructure and services by
automating, orchestrating, integrating and standardizing the
provisioning and management of physical, virtual and cloud
resources.
"Enterprise data center virtualization and cloud computing
strategies are being rapidly implemented across heterogeneous
physical and virtual infrastructures," said Mary Johnston Turner, research director,
Enterprise System Management Software, IDC. "These new computing
architectures significantly complicate many activities, such as
application and server provisioning, and change management.
Automated provisioning solutions are needed to help IT teams
address these challenges. The CA Automation Suite targets many of
these requirements while providing customers with modular
implementation options designed to deliver value quickly and
allowing customers to ramp up use of automation at a pace that
makes sense for their business."
The CA Automation Suite is designed to offer a comprehensive
solution to help solve the most challenging IT operational tasks.
Designed with unified physical and virtualization management in
mind, the Suite provides a clear path toward helping enterprises
accelerate the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing.
"MGM Resorts deployed components of the CA Automation Suite in
early 2010 in order to standardize and streamline physical and
virtual server provisioning and life-cycle management activities,"
said Chris Gebelin, executive
director - enterprise management of MGM Resorts International. "Our
investment in the CA Technologies automation solutions has enabled
us to improve staff productivity and IT resource utilization."
The CA Automation Suite features two new products and
enhancements to four other products. All the products may be
purchased and implemented separately or in three new pre-integrated
solutions designed for critical use-case requirements: hybrid
clouds, Cisco UCS, and data centers.
Business Service Automation
- NEW: CA Process Automation helps reduce
operational expenses, increase staff productivity and increase
speed in delivering IT services by documenting, automating, and
orchestrating a range of processes across platforms, applications,
and IT groups. Key features include a graphical designer interface,
over 50 CA Technologies and third-party pre-built data connectors,
and visual exception handling. These features provide context to
the architects of the tasks being automated and help enable quicker
results.
- NEW: CA Configuration Automation is designed to
enable greater standardization of IT services, reduced downtime,
and increased compliance with regulatory and IT security policies
by providing application and system discovery and dependency
mapping across a range of applications and distributed physical and
virtual servers. Key features include granular configuration
tracking and auditing; more than 1000 out-of-the-box application,
service and system templates and policies; and the flexibility of
using either agent or agent-less approaches.
- CA Workload Automation automates and optimizes the
scheduling of enterprise workloads, helping IT meet service level
objectives of mission critical workloads. The solution can be
hosted and managed from both mainframe and distributed platforms,
offering choice and flexibility to data center managers. New
capabilities include enhanced agents that support more than 50 job
types; dynamic management of mixed workloads for virtualized
resources; and the ability to schedule workloads in public clouds
such as Amazon EC2, manage business workloads and IT services as a
single process, and monitor an entire business process and perform
impact and root cause analysis in the event of a job failure.
Infrastructure Automation
- CA Virtual Automation provides self-service and
automated virtual server provisioning using an integrated self
service reservation system; built in templates and reports for
chargeback; and public, private, and hybrid cloud support,
including the ability to directly provision applications into
Amazon EC2. New capabilities include support for hypervisors such
as Microsoft Hyper-V and support for Amazon VPC.
- CA Server Automation dynamically provisions, patches,
and deploys applications and services across physical and virtual
systems based on standard templates and key performance metrics.
New capabilities include support for new hypervisors, including
Microsoft Hyper-V and support for Cisco UCS.
- CA Client Automation (formerly CA IT Client Manager)
integrates and automates a wide range of client device management
tasks such as bare metal buildups and rebuilds, patch management,
migration to Windows 7 and remote desktop support. New capabilities
include application virtualization management, VMware VDI linked
clone management, and business reporting options.
New Pre-Integrated Solutions
- CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds is designed for
enterprises interested in building an internal private cloud and
also potentially planning to leverage a public cloud as a part of
their data center strategy. CA Automation Suite for Hybrid
Clouds helps standardize IT service delivery to business customers
through a unified, self-service reservation system and seamless
administration. The integrated solution includes three automation
products: CA Process Automation, CA Server Automation, and CA
Virtual Automation; and CA Service Catalog and Accounting.
- CA Automation Suite for Cisco UCS is designed for
enterprises scaling out a Cisco UCS solution in their data centers
that needs heterogeneous configuration and provisioning support and
industrial-grade scalability. The integrated solution includes
joint CA Technologies and Cisco developed content for CA
Configuration Automation, CA Process Automation, CA Server
Automation, and CA Virtual Automation that enables images to be
moved to Cisco UCS from non-Cisco UCS servers.
- CA Automation Suite for Data Centers is designed for
enterprises looking to maximize the benefits of managing integrated
physical and virtual infrastructure and preparing to take advantage
of cloud computing's benefits. This integrated solution, previously
called CA Spectrum Automation Manager, is comprised of CA
Configuration Automation, CA Process Automation, CA Server
Automation, and CA Virtual Automation.
"The promise of greater agility, increased ROI and improved
resource utilization is driving rapid implementation of
virtualization and cloud computing initiatives across enterprise
data centers," said Roger Pilc,
general manager of Virtualization and Automation, CA Technologies.
"However, this results in an additional layer of management
complexity that can constrain IT's ability to meet business needs.
The CA Automation Suite is designed to absorb this complexity,
helping IT to increase agility, reduce risk and cost, and improve
service delivery while aligning with the business in unprecedented,
transformational ways."
For more information about the CA Automation Suite, visit
http://www.ca.com/us/service-automation.aspx. Demonstrations are
available at the CA Technologies booth (PS2) at Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo 2010 today through October
21. In addition, Gebelin will discuss MGM Resorts' use of
the CA Automation Suite at the event. His joint session with Pilc,
"Quit Stalling: Overcoming the Barriers to Broad-based
Virtualization Deployments," will be held October 19 at 12:30 p.m.
ET.
Additional Resources
- Blog: CA on Virtualization and Automation
- Product Demonstration: CA Automation Suite for Data
Centers
- Twitter: @CAvirtualAuto
- White Paper: CA Automation Suite Paves the Way for the
Cloud
- White Paper: Workload Automation for the Cloud
- Video: Automation: Pre-requisite to the Cloud
- Executive Brief: Automating Service Delivery
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