LAS VEGAS, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA WORLD -- In a
keynote address at CA World 2011, CA Technologies Executive Vice
President Peter Griffiths explained
how Business Service Innovation is being catapulted into a new
strategic role as a result of the new challenges and opportunities
facing the emerging hybrid enterprise.
According to Griffiths, who heads the company's Technology and
Development Group, end user expectations driven by mobile
applications, converging all-IP digital platforms and e-commerce,
have placed tremendous pressure on new and legacy IT
infrastructures to deliver reliable, innovative services. This
demand requires IT organizations to be agile and adaptive in
leveraging both internal resources—and the expanding availability
of private and public cloud resources. To effectively
orchestrate and leverage these diverse resources, IT must quickly
build exceptional capabilities in the areas of service assurance,
automation, security and management.
"Users are demanding an increasingly rich, responsive and
reliable experience," said Griffiths. "This raises the bar for
Business Service Innovation to deliver outstanding end-user
experience by linking transactions and applications with the
performance, risk and quality of services across cloud, virtual and
physical environments."
Griffiths noted that the urgency of IT's need for Business
Service Innovation is being driven by multiple factors—including an
evolving IT landscape where each of these business services are
developed as composite applications that change and evolve
rapidly.
"IT has to deliver many more services that change much more
quickly—and they are turning out to be composite, cloud-spanning
applications," he said. "This evolving hybrid enterprise of
the future will include devices, on-premise systems and data,
external cloud services, and new applications developed by the
enterprise and deployed in the cloud. In this future enterprise, IT
organizations need to be equipped with a broad range of solutions
that help them deliver IT at the speed of business."
Griffiths underscored the unique value and solutions CA
Technologies offers with respect to Business Service Innovation—as
well as the company's unique commitment to fulfilling customers'
evolving needs for optimizing the service delivery in a the
fast-moving, complex world of the "new normal." He underscored how
cloud computing has evolved into an actionable IT and business
strategy for improving the cost structure, service delivery, and
business value of IT.
"Only CA Technologies can take customers to the hybrid
enterprise around an integrated set of platform services," he
declared. "And only CA Technologies has the solutions that
encompass the entire services delivery lifecycle."
To substantiate this claim, Griffiths pointed to the steps CA
Technologies has taken to extend its leadership in Business Service
Innovation, including:
- The announcement of the company's Next-Generation Mainframe
Management strategy, designed to address the most pressing customer
needs to reduce costs, sustain critical skills, and increase IT
agility in the hybrid data center and the cloud.
- The acquisition of ITKO, which replicates hybrid environments
from the mainframe to the cloud to help customers predict how
services will perform under real-world conditions;
- The integration of CA AppLogic into the BSI platform, which
allows customers to quickly and easily provision, deploy and manage
applications service across private, public and hybrid clouds using
an intuitive browser interface;
- The company's partnership with VCE to deliver infrastructure
automation for Vblock environments;
- The new cloud solutions, CA IdentityMinder as-a-Service and CA
FedMinder as-a-Service, join the company's existing advanced
authentication services as part of the new CA CloudMinder™ family
of IAM cloud solutions support both cloud-based and on-premise
applications; and,
- A growing portfolio of SaaS solutions such as CA Clarity on
Demand, CA ecoSoftware and Nimsoft that are delivering project and
portfolio management, monitoring and service management as cloud
services.
"The SaaS delivery model is a foundational element for the
future of the hybrid enterprise," Griffiths observed. "The
management and delivery of SaaS-based solutions is a key for CA
Technologies as we join with our customers and partners to enable
our collective success—from the mainframe to the cloud."
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