ISLANDIA, N.Y., Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(Nasdaq: CA) today announced the general availability of three key
products in the CA Automation Suite, launched in October. CA
Configuration Automation r12, CA Process Automation r3, and CA
Server Automation r12 are designed to help customers expedite their
journey to a virtualized, dynamic cloud computing infrastructure
and increase business agility, reduce cost and risk, and improve
service delivery.
"The CA Automation Suite is arguably the single most cohesive
package of automation offerings on the market today," said
Dennis Drogseth, vice president of
research, Enterprise Management Associates. "CA Technologies has
shown extraordinary vision in creating a unique portfolio that
should effectively address the requirements of both its more
progressive customers, as well as customers seeking a more
intelligible approach to getting started with automation."
CA Configuration Automation r12 is a new Business Service
Automation product designed to enable greater standardization of IT
services, reduced downtime, and increased compliance with
regulatory and IT security policies. CA Configuration Automation
provides application and system discovery and dependency mapping,
as well as configuration monitoring and remediation, 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, compliance and
system templates and policies; and the flexibility of using either
agent or agent-less approaches.
CA Process Automation r3 is a new Business Service
Automation product that 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, visual exception handling, and over
50 CA Technologies and third-party pre-built data connectors and
Quickstarts, including ones for Amazon Web Services, and VMware
vSphere. These features provide a context of the tasks being
automated to architects and help deliver quicker results.
CA Server Automation r12 is an Infrastructure Automation
product that 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 r12.5 and CA Virtual Automation r3
were made generally available in May
2010 and July 2010,
respectively. CA Workload Automation r11.3 is planned to be
generally available by spring 2011.
All products in the CA Automation Suite may be purchased and
implemented separately or in three pre-integrated solutions
designed for critical use-case requirements: hybrid clouds, Cisco
UCS, and data centers.
CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds is designed for
enterprises interested in building an internal private cloud, or
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 CA Process
Automation, CA Server Automation, 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, with
jointly developed content from CA Technologies and Cisco, includes
CA Configuration Automation, CA Process Automation, CA Server
Automation, and CA Virtual Automation. With CA Virtual
Automation, images can 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 infrastructures, while preparing to take
advantage of cloud computing's benefits. This integrated solution
is comprised of CA Configuration Automation, CA Process Automation,
CA Server Automation, and CA Virtual Automation.
"Automation, orchestration and virtualization management are top
priorities for enterprise and larger mid-market customers," states
Mary Johnston Turner, IDC Research
Director for Enterprise System Management Software. "These
technologies are critical enablers of private cloud environments.
According to a recent IDC survey* of large North American
companies, those that are committed to deploying a private cloud
environment are almost three times as likely to be planning for
widespread production use of automation, orchestration and
virtualization management tools when compared to organizations that
have not yet defined a private cloud strategy. These companies
expect use of these tools to significantly improve IT staff
productivity and increase utilization of in-house system
resources."
"The CA Automation Suite has been well received by customers
looking for a comprehensive solution to help rapidly deliver
services in response to changing business needs," said Roger Pilc, general manager, Virtualization and
Automation, CA Technologies. "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."
For more information about the CA Automation Suite, visit:
- CA Virtualization and Automation Blog
- CA Virtualization and Automation on Twitter
- Video: CA Automation Suite Product Demonstration
- Video: Automation: Pre-requisite to the Cloud
- White Paper: CA Automation Suite Paves the Way for the
Cloud
- White Paper: CA Technologies Steps Up to Advanced Automation
Requirements for Service Management and Cloud
*IDC, "On the Road to Private Cloud Management", Mary Johnston Turner, September 2010.
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