ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(NASDAQ: CA) today announced 10 new and updated products and
solutions that advance the company's strategy for enabling
cloud-connected enterprises and helping customers realize the
business value of agility. With these new releases, enterprise
customers gain the visibility and portability required to make the
best choices in this growing, heterogeneous IT environment and
realize faster time-to-value for hybrid cloud implementations.
The term "cloud choice" describes the growing heterogeneity that
includes traditional, cloud and hybrid application environments.
Enterprises face a big decision today: if and when to move an
application to the cloud. Once the decision is made to use the
cloud, enterprises must then select the right type of cloud –
public, private, hybrid – based on the application and its current
and future requirements.
In order to make the right cloud choice for the business,
management and security must be at the forefront of any
consideration. To help ensure customers are successful in their
cloud initiatives, CA Technologies provides a breadth of products
and solutions that support a lifecycle approach to successful cloud
deployment which includes: plan, design, deliver, secure and
assure.
"By putting management and security at the forefront of any
cloud initiative, we can help enterprises choose, deploy and
operationalize the right mix of cloud options to deliver the
time-to-value that today's business requires," said Roger Pilc, general manager, Virtualization and
Automation, CA Technologies. "By working with CA Technologies,
enterprises can accelerate any and all facets of their cloud
strategies, whether to make optimal use of public cloud services,
leverage existing virtual and physical environments into a private
cloud, build private cloud services from the ground up, or all of
the above."
The following products and solutions announced today support a
lifecycle approach to successful cloud deployment:
CA Business Service Insight 8.0:
- Developed to manage the service performance of both cloud-based
and traditional services, CA Business Service Insight helps
enterprises plan and assure cloud initiatives. By offering features
to discover, compare and measure services and service levels,
customers can make the best informed choices around service
options.
- Customers can benchmark and compare internal and external
services and their performance by using the Service Measurement
Index hosted at Cloud Commons. In addition, Business Service
Insight provides the ability to research different service options
using social interaction. Valuable service opinion and comparison
data can be collected by creating questionnaires to poll peers in
the industry.
- Business Service Insight also helps customers reduce
performance and security risk by providing the ability to discover
the traditional and cloud services currently running in an IT
environment.
- Finally, customers can improve business agility and increase
customer satisfaction by providing the business level visibility
needed to help assure services are performing at operational and
contractual service levels.
"With the growth of cloud adoption in our organization, there is
a new level of complex heterogeneity that embodies our IT
environment," said Jose Ferraz,
managing partner, VisionWay, Business Management Services. "We
understand that managing this environment and the cloud services
and applications brought into it must be thought of up-front,
before making any service or application choices. CA Business
Service Insight provides us with the information we need as we make
our choices of what should or could be delivered as a cloud
application and what should stay in-house. Much of this decision is
based on whether service levels are meeting business
expectations."
CA Automation Suite for Data Centers 12.5:
- Delivers the ultimate in enabling cloud choice. The integrated
solution for automated data center management allows IT to respond
to business needs, such as requirements for additional computing
capacity on demand. This "cloud-bursting" capability allows
customers to move workloads from private to public clouds as needed
to meet demand and SLAs.
- Advances in CA Technologies rapid server imaging technology
help prevent vendor lock-in. Customers can seamlessly move
applications and workloads into, out of and across public cloud
provider platforms from vendors such as Amazon Web Services,
Rackspace and Terremark.
- Comprised of new releases of CA Server Automation, CA Virtual
Automation, CA Configuration Automation and CA Process Automation,
CA Automation Suite for Data Centers offers a comprehensive,
step-wise approach to automation. It provides dynamic provisioning,
configuration management, deployment and elastic scaling of IT
services and infrastructure combined with policy-based server
automation to maximize business service quality and
availability.
CA AppLogic® 3.0:
- This unique turnkey cloud computing platform allows enterprises
to design and deliver virtual business services across private and
public clouds. With an intuitive visual interface, enterprises can
define infrastructure, provision, deploy and manage applications,
as well as monitor operations, using only a browser. With this
release, customers can now run applications and services using
VMware ESX and Xen hypervisors on the same grid, providing a new
level of freedom and flexibility for delivering cloud services. In
addition, customers can import workloads using the Open
Virtualization Format (OVF), making smart use of existing
virtualization investments.
- The new Global Fabric Controller adds detection and inventory
functions to simplify installation and help reduce operating costs,
and the role-based access control capabilities provide new options
to enhance security. Enterprises running internal applications on
the CA AppLogic cloud platform can easily move those applications
to any of the global ecosystem of public cloud providers also using
the CA AppLogic cloud platform.
CA Automation Suite for Clouds 1.0:
- A new pre-integrated solution to deliver private cloud
services. This out-of-the-box solution enables rapid, predictable
and secure provisioning and delivers cloud infrastructure and
critical services designed for hybrid environments.
- The pre-tested and extensible framework is designed for
customers and partners to rapidly implement and accelerate time to
value. It includes pre-designed workflows for automated,
self-service delivery of virtual and physical infrastructure and
application services, making it ideal for both foundational IaaS
environments and easy extensibility to current and future automated
cloud services. CA Automation Suite for Clouds is comprised of CA
Server Automation, CA Virtual Automation, CA Process Automation, CA
Configuration Automation and CA Service Catalog.
CA Virtual Placement Manager 1.0:
- Helps enterprises design and deliver virtual infrastructure. It
brings to market a revolutionary approach to capacity management by
automatically solving for optimal workload assignment, predicting
capacity needs, and addressing performance and response time risks
while also right-sizing new and existing virtual machines. Users
can perform these analyses with both existing and hypothetical
infrastructure components.
- The placement and balancing solution, based on technology
further developed from the Hyperformix acquisition, incorporates an
infrastructure library and leverages performance and capacity
utilization data from third party agents to support multi-vendor
analysis. CA Virtual Placement Manager helps address problems of VM
stall and sprawl by leveraging patented analytics to safely
increase overall host to VM ratios.
Additional Enhanced Products:
- CA Virtual Assurance for Infrastructure Managers 12.5 to help
assure application performance across virtual, cloud and
traditional IT environments;
- CA Identity Manager 12.5 and CA Role & Compliance Manager
12.5 to help secure and control identity and access across virtual,
cloud and traditional IT environments;
- CA Data Manager 4.3 for designing data center efficiency;
and
- CA Automation Suite for Cisco UCS 12.5 for delivering dynamic
service and application automation across physical, virtual and
cloud infrastructures.
"Enterprise IT has evolved rapidly into a world where
organizations use and provide cloud services that cross boundaries
of departments, companies and countries; across mobile devices,
public, private and hybrid clouds; and across corporate mainframes
and traditional servers," said Tim
Grieser, program vice president, IDC. "With these
announcements, CA Technologies is expanding the breadth and depth
of solutions that can help customers choose the best cloud option
for their business and help manage, secure and optimize the
service."
Pragmatic Approach to Cloud
To help customers in their cloud journey, CA Technologies offers
a three-day Cloud Strategy Workshop to assess how cloud computing
can support an organization's business needs based on a specific
scenario the customer selects. Upon completion, customers will
receive a report detailing assessments – ranging from the impact a
cloud move will have on business and technical operations to
strategy recommendations and suggested milestones for
deployment.
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