ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France and
ISLANDIA, N.Y., Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bull and CA
Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced a strategic alliance to
help large enterprises transform their heterogeneous IT
infrastructures to private clouds.
The alliance is based on several technology synergies including
a distribution agreement covering CA Technologies Virtualization
Management and Service Automation solution portfolio: CA Automation
Suite for Data Centers, an integrated solution for automated data
center management that supports a variety of computing
environments, including Windows®, Linux®, AIX® and other types of
UNIX.
By delivering value-added consulting and integration services
based upon CA Technologies solutions for service automation and
service level agreement (SLA) management, this alliance will allow
both companies to help customers to drive efficiencies in their IT
infrastructures and streamline architecture silos – whilst
automating most of their IT management processes.
Furthermore, Bull and CA Technologies will continue their
existing collaboration on contractual service level management – a
critical challenge when migrating to cloud services. Bull has a
proven track record and years of expertise in the successful
deployment of CA Business Service Insight, formerly known as
Oblicore Guarantee.
After realizing immediate benefits from server consolidation and
silo integration, many enterprises face new issues related to
operational complexities, such as virtual sprawl, virtual stall,
capacity optimization and increasing operational costs. The
combination of CA Technologies solutions and Bull's integration
services is essential to make virtualized architectures more
flexible and introduce a new dynamic infrastructure within the
enterprise in order to improve IT productivity and the way IT
resources are used.
Bull Advisory Services provide customers with an infrastructure
assessment and analysis to determine opportunities that may be
addressed by the cloud model. Following an assessment, Bull
provides recommendations ranging from a set of services, to a new
reference architecture, and an ROI model for the solution.
The implementation of this reference architecture may include CA
Automation Suite for Data Centers, which features the following
capabilities: process automation, orchestration, provisioning
standardization, configuration management, charge-back/accounting
management and resource management, as well as CA Business Service
Insight for contractual service level management. Bull's
professional services and expertise offer customers the support
needed to integrate and leverage new solutions.
This deployment path helps customers to ensure a smooth and
controlled transition to private clouds by extending their data
center capacities, while fully leveraging existing infrastructures
and bringing a full service catalogue to the business.
"CA Technologies is proud to work with Bull as we help customers
improve their business agility by taking advantage of data center
consolidation and private cloud architectures. With Bull's
knowledge and expertise in the deployment of agile datacenters, and
our broad-ranging and robust technology, customers can focus
energies on winning in the marketplace instead of how to best
optimize their IT investment," said Roger
Pilc, general manager, Virtualization and Automation, CA
Technologies.
"Many Bull customers have already started to streamline their IT
infrastructure using virtualization technologies for Windows®,
Linux® and AIX®. To improve productivity, they must now deploy
service repositories and automate processes on a larger scale,"
said Philippe Miltin, Executive Vice
President, Computing Solutions Business Line at Bull. "Our
technical teams selected CA Technologies because it meets the exact
management requirements of our largest customers for their
critical, heterogeneous datacenters.
As part of the alliance, CA Technologies will provide Bull with
the technical, sales and marketing support needed to achieve
successful implementation of the solutions. Accordingly, both
R&D teams will work closely together and technical experts will
take part in training, technical support, pre-sales and other
common initiatives.
For further insight into today's alliance announcement, read our
blog.
About Bull, Architect of an Open World
Bull is an Information Technology company, dedicated to helping
Corporations and Public Sector organizations optimize the
architecture, operations and the financial return of their
Information Systems and their mission-critical related
businesses.
Bull focuses on open and secure systems, and as such is the only
European-based company offering expertise in all the key elements
of the IT value chain. For more information visit:
http://www.bull.fr.
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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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