ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA
Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced four innovative new and
enhanced solutions, and a comprehensive initiative that will help
leading-edge service providers (SPs) rapidly design and deliver
new, high-margin cloud service offerings.
CA Technologies is enabling SPs to sell cloud-based services
with a sustainable financial model that helps them drive revenue
and efficiencies which can help build margin. The solutions and
products also help SPs pursue this growth by allowing them to
tailor their offerings to highly targeted customers, spanning large
and small enterprises, and even consumers.
SPs continue to lead the way in cloud computing and enterprises
of all sizes rely on these partners as they take their first steps
toward the cloud. These SPs need solutions that help enable revenue
and margin improvements, enable them to choose lucrative customer
segments while drastically improving operational efficiency,
minimizing security, compliance and availability risks, and better
understanding the quality of service they deliver.
The new and updated CA Technologies offerings and programs help
SPs deliver a cloud platform and more easily on-board
customers.
"We're committed to helping service providers unlock the full
potential of cloud-based solutions for their customers," said
Adam Famularo, general manager,
Cloud Strategy and Solutions, CA Technologies. "While other cloud
computing approaches require building costly 'cloud stacks' with
multiple products, layers and prohibitive pricing models, our
unique approach frees service providers from vendor lock-in, and
helps them improve margins, simplify the delivery of new services
and provide a broad set of choices to help target specific markets
with differentiated cloud services. We're continuing to expand our
ecosystem of cloud partners and solutions—which is a big benefit
for SPs and enterprises alike."
CA Technologies products and solutions announced today
include:
Turnkey Cloud Computing Platform for SPs
Available today, the latest version of the CA AppLogic® 3.0
turnkey cloud platform, offers an application-centric, fast
and easy approach for delivering infrastructure, tools,
applications and virtual data centers in the cloud. SPs can use the
CA AppLogic platform to add new revenue-driving
services—independent of hypervisor technology—with dramatic speed,
flexibility and choice.
CA AppLogic software sets a new standard for fast business
service creation with support for multiple hypervisors in the same
grid, including VMware ESX and Xen. This enables SPs to address
more customers and architectures, and allows enterprises to protect
their investments in VMware.
Additional new CA AppLogic features include:
- Global Fabric Controller: adds detection and inventory
functions to radically simplify installation and help enable SPs to
reduce operating costs.
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF): enables SPs to import
workloads from VMware or Xen with a standards-based interchange
format to simplify the delivery of new services and leverage
existing investments.
- Role-based Access Controls: users and user groups can have
distinct access levels to the system to help improve security and
ease-of-use.
- International language support: now available in English,
French, German, Spanish and Simplified Chinese.
"We have a long-standing relationship with CA Technologies
providing CA AppLogic software for our enterprise-class cloud
computing solutions including virtual private data centers (VPDCs)
and on-demand cloud services," said Kevin
Van Mondfrans, senior director of Cloud Services at Layered
Tech. "CA Technologies continues to demonstrate its
commitment to Layered Tech and our customers by ensuring that CA
AppLogic delivers the flexibility, scalability, protection and
ease-of-use needed to keep pace with our rapidly growing VPDC and
cloud services business."
Additional New/Updated Cloud Computing Products for
SPs
CA Technologies today also released a new set of automation,
assurance and service management solutions with capabilities ideal
for service providers.
CA Automation Suite for Clouds 1.0: helps SPs
maximize efficiencies by enabling automation of the service
delivery process and of existing heterogeneous infrastructure
including Cisco UCS, VCE Vblock infrastructure platforms, NetApp,
VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, IBM LPARs and more. It supports end-user
self-service and provides a catalog of applications and services
that can be accessed through a secure, online portal, allowing the
SP's staff or clients to provision the resources needed to create
and support desired services. Integrated, cloud-enabling
capabilities include a self-service portal, on-demand provisioning,
dynamic resource and workload management, service metering and
billing, and role-based security.
CA NetQoS® Unified Communications Monitor 3.2:
allows SPs to offer voice and video management services, which
helps SPs to ensure one of the most critical business services that
IT supports. It also offers support for medianet-enabled Cisco
devices, which helps organizations address and manage the
'consumerization of IT' and the rapidly growing use of video in the
enterprise.
CA Business Service Insight 8.0: this enhanced
product is based on further development of CA Oblicore Guarantee™.
It helps SPs manage and report on their service level commitments
in clear, meaningful business terms. This transparency helps to
reduce customer churn, improve customer close rates and reduce
over-provisioning.
CA Cloud Market Accelerator Program for Service
Providers
Today CA Technologies also unveiled its CA Cloud Market
Accelerator Program for Service Providers, offering SP partners
tools and resources for co-marketing, sales enablement and
collaboration. The initiative is designed to support SPs through
the process of developing and delivering cloud service offerings,
helping to contribute to their success. It will also serve to
continue to foster an extensive ecosystem of cloud service
providers to help make the cloud-connected enterprise a
reality.
Resources are available at www.ca.com/buildyourmargin and will
include:
- Selling tools, materials and training
- Co-brandable marketing materials and demand generation campaign
management resources
- Go-to-market planning tools and training
- Cloud Commons Knowledge Hub
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and
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
ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at
www.ca.com.
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