CA teams with Cisco and delivers new cloud, virtualization products
CA also said it is changing its name slightly, to CA Technologies, to reflect a broad strategy of managing IT resources
CA is expanding its partnership with Cisco and unveiling several new management products to improve cloud computing and virtualization deployments, the company said in a series of announcements Monday at CA World in Las Vegas. The new products are based partly on technology acquired in CA's recent buying spree, in which the company purchased vendors 3Tera, Oblicore and Cassatt.
CA also said it is changing its name slightly from CA Inc. to CA Technologies, to reflect a broad strategy of managing "IT resources from the mainframe to the cloud, and everything in between."
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CA's partnership with Cisco includes integration of CA system management software with Cisco's Unified Computing System, letting IT pros control the Cisco technology from within the CA management interface.
CA's Spectrum Automation Manager, a server provisioning and automation tool; CA's eHealth Performance Manager, which tracks device performance; and CA's Spectrum Infrastructure Manager, which performs network configuration management, fault isolation and root cause analysis, will all work with Cisco's UCS.
Separately from the Cisco partnership, CA is announcing a variety of software tools to manage virtual computing resources and cloud-based systems.
While 60 percent of CA's $4.2 billion business is related to the mainframe, the company is making cloud computing one of its main focuses, along with security, software-as-a-service-based IT management, and virtualization management, says Tom Kendra, vice president of enterprise products and solutions.
Managing the new virtualization layer and cloud-based services is no easy task, in part because the technologies have been installed in addition to -- rather than replacements of -- existing IT infrastructure, and require a heterogeneous management approach, Kendra says..
