LAS VEGAS, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA WORLD - CA
Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced two new, integrated roles
and a new release of its revolutionary CA Mainframe Chorus unified
management workspace, greatly extending its capabilities to
modernize mainframe administration.
In addition to the DB2 for z/OS management role included with
the first release of CA Mainframe Chorus, the new release extends
its innovative management paradigm with two new roles — CA
Mainframe Chorus for Security and Compliance Management and CA
Mainframe Chorus for Storage Management. All three roles
access a common management workspace with CA Mainframe Chorus, so
staff can manage more than one administrative area.
"CA Mainframe Chorus is a ground-breaking innovation from CA
Technologies and the cornerstone for our Next-Generation Mainframe
Management strategy, which helps customers reduce costs, simplify
management and increase IT agility," said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe
Customer Solutions Unit, CA Technologies. "The advances in the CA
Mainframe Chorus platform and expansion of its management roles
help enable the new hybrid IT staff required to run the next
generation hybrid mainframe."
CA Mainframe Chorus for Security and Compliance
Management
The new role helps security specialists simplify and streamline
security and compliance administration to:
- Extend CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret's Compliance Information
Analysis database to help provide managers with accurate security
information in real-time.
- Advance reporting capabilities that help administrators
understand security policies and the context around security
events, so they can more quickly create customized
reports.
- Enhance event handling for z/OS to assist organizations in
addressing and continuously maintaining compliance with government
regulations and industry standards.
CA Mainframe Chorus for Storage Management
The new role helps storage administrators save time and money by
providing:
- Web browser capabilities that help to reduce management
complexity, and accelerate storage management productivity and
efficiency.
- The flexibility to easily set thresholds to automate monitoring
of storage levels and more quickly identify, diagnose and resolve
problems before they impact storage availability and
performance.
- An interactive graphical topology that provides timely,
detailed qualitative analysis to help storage managers more easily
and quickly view and accurately report on the entire storage
infrastructure.
- Historical trend analysis that automates the tracking and
graphing of comparative storage volume data to simplify diagnosis
and resolution of performance issues.
CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management
The second release of the DB2 DBA role includes enhancements
that are designed to further simplify and streamline management,
and extend flexibility and control in managing the DB2
environment.
Supporting Comments
"We need to support business growth and stay competitive, but
budget cuts and staffing challenges make it difficult to manage our
growing CPU power and increasing IT complexity," said Arie Berger, manager, Operating Systems and
Information Security for El Al. "CA Mainframe Chorus, with its
innovative new technology and modern management workspace, will
help us simplify management, increase the agility and productivity
of our IT operations and attract new mainframe talent."
"We are looking to increase our efficiency and effectiveness in
managing and securing our mainframe and DB2 environments so that we
can continue to deliver quality service to over one million
customers," said Randy Senn, CIO,
SCANA Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy-based holding company.
"SCANA is participating in the Security beta and is excited about
what the addition of the Security and Compliance role can deliver
for our enterprise."
All of the new CA Mainframe Chorus releases and roles will be
available this month.
Today's announcement supports customers as they transition from
simply managing IT to delivering business services. CA Technologies
applies a unique value roadmap to each customer's business goals to
deliver Business Service Innovation: new levels of speed,
innovation, performance and cost/risk efficiencies.
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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
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