CA Delivers Eight New and Enhanced Management Solutions to Help Organizations Reduce Costs and Manage Risk
09 Juin 2008 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced eight new and updated
solutions that deliver on CA�s Enterprise IT Management (EITM)
vision to enable customers to govern, manage and secure their IT
environments. CA�s new offerings include products for managing
compliance and risk across mainframe and distributed computing
environments; and products that build on CA�s latest advances in
automation to enable enterprise IT organizations to implement
consistent management policies and processes across computing
platforms and organizational boundaries, streamline essential IT
operations, and more readily implement best-practice frameworks
such as ITIL� and COBIT. �Today�s successful businesses understand
that IT can be a powerful competitive weapon,� said Ajei Gopal,
executive vice president of CA�s EITM Group. �CA�s EITM vision is
designed to enable our customers to use IT to win in the
marketplace. With CA solutions, IT organizations can contribute to
the growth, profitability, and adaptability of the businesses they
serve, while tightly controlling costs. CA continues to deliver on
its EITM vision with innovative technologies that address our
customers� most pressing challenges, and also deliver long-term
value by supporting and driving business priorities.� EITM is CA�s
strategic vision for changing the way enterprises manage IT. It
provides customers with an integrated and modular approach to
govern, manage and secure IT environments, while aligning IT to the
company�s business imperatives. �In today�s high-stakes/high-risk
markets, companies have to consider IT a strategic value
center�rather than simply managing it as a cost center,� said
Judith Hurwitz, president of Hurwitz & Associates.��CA is
focusing on helping IT organizations improve efficiency through
automation and better resource allocation.� Helping to Facilitate
Compliance and Enforce Policy Five of the CA solutions announced
today improve enterprise-wide risk management by helping
organizations address both external regulations and internal
performance objectives. CA�s solutions help reduce associated costs
and enable implementation of best practices for identifying,
measuring, analyzing and balancing risk. Several of the solutions
have been specifically designed to facilitate adherence to SOX, PCI
Standard, HIPAA, COBIT, and many other important standards. CA GRC
Manager r1.5 offers risk management, compliance and audit
professionals powerful new capabilities to centrally manage risk
and compliance initiatives across the entire enterprise. The new
version enables organizations to manage business policies
throughout their lifecycle, correlate and analyze key performance
and risk indicators, and automate GRC program management to help
ensure peak performance. CA Security Compliance Manager* is a new
product that improves IT security and helps facilitate compliance
with legal, corporate and government regulations. CA Security
Compliance Manager is designed to automatically detect security
policy or compliance violations, such as inactive or orphan
accounts, and initiate remediation. It also streamlines the manual
processes around certification and attestation of entitlements. CA
Security Compliance Manager integrates with CA Identity Manager,
CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret, CA GRC Manager and CA Service Desk. It
delivers compliance reports that show �who has access to what,�
�who can do what� and �who approved what��while simplifying
corrective action. CA Access Control Premium Edition improves its
customers� approach to IT security and compliance by providing
cross-platform creation, deployment and management of more
specific, role-based access controls for servers. With the support
of an automated distribution and endpoint update system, CA Access
Control Premium Edition can manage thousands of endpoints from a
single server and accommodate large deployments. It also provides
aggregated, proactive reporting on entitlements and policy status
so that out-of-policy issues can be corrected before they create
security or compliance problems. CA Identity Manager r12 gives
organizations unprecedented capabilities to manage identities from
creation to modification to removal in both mainframe and
distributed environments. The architecture, installation,
administration and reporting enhancements made to this release help
organizations reduce the complexity and cost of an identity
management deployment, while easing compliance initiatives. CA
Identity Manager supports integration and customization with
specialized systems and applications through a wizard-based
identity integration tool. CA Software Compliance Manager* is a new
product that enables organizations to dramatically reduce the risks
and costs associated with managing software licenses. Today many
businesses rely on manual, unrepeatable processes to manage
software licenses. This increases the risk of software audit
failure. CA Software Compliance Manager helps establish sustainable
and continuous compliance processes that help meet regulatory
mandates. It eases audit processes by integrating software asset
data from third party and CA inventory tools and then normalizes it
for proper license management. Improving Efficiency and Value
Through Automation and Policy-Based Controls According to a
February 26, 2008 report by Forrester Research entitled �Data
Center Automation Defined�, IT spends about 75% of its budget on
ongoing operations and maintenance. One major reason for this is
the absence of mechanisms to automate tasks. Many factors lead to
the rising labor costs associated with the management and
maintenance of infrastructure, and the only way to counter these
factors is to adopt automation to reduce costs and increase
efficiency wherever possible. Three of the solutions introduced by
CA use automation to align IT with the business, improve efficiency
and reduce cost: CA IT Process Manager* is a new product that
strengthens CA�s Data Center Automation solutions by automating IT
processes�across the data center. It is designed to drive down
management costs and increase productivity, while enforcing best
practices aimed at improving performance and availability of
critical business applications.�CA IT Process Manager transforms IT
management�and the ability to deliver services to the business
faster by allowing organizations to design, build, orchestrate,
manage and report on workflows that support IT operations
processes. Customers can automate and visualize critical IT
processes around key IT initiatives including workload automation,
data center automation, disaster recovery, consolidation,
ITIL/ITSM, provisioning, security and virtualization management by
leveraging deep integration to more than 30 IT management solutions
from CA, as well as IBM, BMC, HP and Microsoft. CA Advanced Systems
Management r11.2 builds on CA�s commitment to provide customers a
vendor- and platform-neutral solution that streamlines the
management of physical and virtual server environments.�Expanding
CA�s support for a broad array of virtualization platforms, CA
Advanced Systems Management now integrates with VMware
VirtualCenter and supports Sun�s logical domains. It also provides
unique insight for virtual and cluster environments through
physical-to-virtual mapping of the enterprise server
infrastructure. This functionality helps customers continuously
assess, manage and optimize virtual system resources to verify
service availability. CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation
r11.6 automates management of z/OS� system resources and features a
Switch Operations Facility (SOF) that enables mainframe system
administrators to quickly visualize, monitor, and manage the health
of complex Enterprise Systems Connection and Fiber Connectivity
infrastructures. These infrastructures, which connect mainframes to
peripheral resources such as storage devices, are critically
important for the delivery of IT services, but also are notoriously
difficult and time-consuming to manage. With the SOF, IT staff can
manage this infrastructure more effectively in less time. For more
information, including video, white papers and other material
related to today�s announcements, please see
http://ca.com/eitm/businessvalue. * Denotes new products announced
today. About CA CA (NASDAQ: CA), one of the world�s largest
independent software companies, provides software solutions to
unify and simplify� IT management. With CA�s Enterprise IT
Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more
effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business
performance and sustain competitive advantage. Founded in 1976, CA
serves customers in virtually every country in the world. For more
information, please visit www.ca.com. Copyright � 2008 CA. All
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