CA continues cloud computing buying spree
Acquisition of 3Tera provides CA with tools to offer customers a smoother transition to private and public cloud computing
CA Wednesday announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire for an undisclosed sum a company called 3Tera, a move that industry watchers say will equip the management software maker with tools to offer customers a smoother transition to private and public cloud computing.
The third in a string of acquisitions CA says target its cloud computing plans, the 3Tera buy would bring to the management software maker its AppLogic suite, which helps customer encapsulate existing applications into containers suited for private and public cloud environments, says Jay Fry, vice president of business unit strategy for CA. CA acquired Cassatt last summer and Oblicore earlier this year, and the company cited cloud ambitions at the time of those separate deals.
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"The most interesting thing about 3Tera is their ability to give both service providers and enterprises a way to take existing applications and bring them to private and public cloud environments via an elegant interface. The process used to be done very manually, but AppLogic automates it and smoothes that transition," Fry explains.
CA executives expect the acquisition to close within "a few weeks, with no particular date set," but industry watchers say this buy will benefit CA on two fronts. For one, it isn't directly about IT management software – yet. 3Tera will help CA get into cloud enablement, opening the door for new cloud and management customers in the enterprise. 3Tera has 20 or so service provider clients.
