ISLANDIA, N.Y., Jan. 30,
2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies today announced that
customers such as Fibercorp Argentina, Devanlay and Logicalis UK,
are rapidly adopting its Unified Automation solutions. The
company's integrated Infrastructure, Application and Service
Automation solutions are helping IT organizations to rapidly
deliver services that drive business innovation faster and at a
lower cost.
As IT continues to focus on delivering quality services, it
wrestles with today's business reality: the need to do more with
less. Due to reduced or flat budgets and increased costs, as well
as complexity challenges, IT organizations are increasingly turning
to automation to offer high quality services more quickly and at a
reduced cost. CA Technologies Unified Automation solutions help
customers reconcile these inconsistent forces and transform their
IT service delivery.
"Our Unified Automation solutions offer a top-down,
service-driven approach that helps accelerate and streamline
holistic service delivery, enabling enterprises and service
providers to more aggressively pursue new business
opportunities—and win," said Roger
Pilc, general manager, Virtualization and Automation, CA
Technologies. "The solutions help customers realize new levels of
speed, innovation and cost efficiencies, and move from managing
infrastructure to optimizing the delivery of business services.
This Business Service Innovation allows CIOs to realize the full
benefit of their IT environment, and accelerate time to market for
the business services that deliver innovation, business value and
competitive advantage."
Changing the Game
According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester
Consulting, "The tasks of the IT infrastructure and operations
(I&O) professional have become increasingly complex and
susceptible to human error. This is a direct consequence of the
sheer volume and diversity of business services and underlying IT
infrastructure components. By masking IT's diversity and automating
highly repetitive tasks, IT automation is the key to
industrializing your operations to improve productivity and reduce
costs."*
CA Technologies Unified Automation helps IT move beyond just
optimizing infrastructure to also optimizing the applications and
services that run on the infrastructure.The solutions provide
visibility to the drivers and implications of change, and then add
intelligence in order to make prescriptive recommendations for
automating when and why changes occur, not just how.
Delivering Results
CA Technologies Unified Automation simplifies operations by
abstracting and absorbing the complexity of diverse, heterogeneous
platforms, methodologies and toolsets. The solutions also provide
insight into current and future capital and operational costs with
predictive analytics so customers can strategically plan
investments.
Whether customers use the Infrastructure, Application and
Service Automation solutions standalone or in combination, to
support traditional or converged platforms like VCE Vblock
Infrastructure Platforms, they can achieve greater agility,
productivity, visibility and control.
Infrastructure Automation
CA Server Automation, CA Client Automation, CA Network
Automation and CA Automation Suite for Data Centers are designed
specifically for virtualization and cloud computing, enabling
customers to discover, provision and configure end-to-end
infrastructure, including converged fabrics like VCE Vblock™, Cisco
UCS and NetApp FlexPod™ to drive cost efficiency, service quality
and agility.
For example, CA Network Automation helps reduce risk and improve
IT efficiency by enabling organizations to better manage network
configurations and changes – making it easier to automate common
network operational tasks, identify and remediate hard-to-find
configuration problems, and help meet compliance requirements.
"We are excited to begin using both CA Network Automation and CA
Automation Suite for Clouds," states Diego
Castro Cao, CTO, Fibercorp Argentina. "These solutions will
help us to more efficiently manage our network and IT
infrastructure, and offer new cloud-based services to our
clients."
Application Automation
The CA AppLogic® cloud computing platform, CA Workload
Automation, CA Configuration Automation and CA Capacity Management
help customers discover, assemble, provision, configure and run
jobs for applications to achieve greater speed, service quality and
efficiency.
For example, in the last nine months, more than 60 new customers
have selected CA Workload Automation. In the same time period, more
than 200 customers have expanded their use of the solution, which
provides the ability to initiate, monitor and manage workloads in
private, public and hybrid clouds for increased agility and better
business outcomes. CA Workload Automation now also supports VCE
Vblock Platforms.
"CA Workload Automation's ease-of-use and speed of deployment
convinced us that it would be the best solution for optimizing our
global production planning," said Laurent Caroujat, operations
manager in Devanlay's Information Systems Department. "It is an
extremely effective planning tool, which has enabled us to manage
event planning more efficiently. Because CA Workload Automation was
quick and easy to deploy, we soon established our e-commerce
business and were technically operational within a matter of
days."
In addition, in the past three months, nearly 20 new service
provider, enterprise, and ISV customers have chosen the CA AppLogic
platform to transform how they deliver application and cloud
services. This included the largest CA AppLogic deal to date. In
the same time period, 10 new customers, as well as many existing
customers, have chosen the latest release of CA Capacity Management
to help them make more informed IT decisions, mitigate risks and
manage their data center operations more effectively.
"ViaWest chose the CA AppLogic platform and CA
Process Automation for KINECTed™ Cloud - Innovator because the
solutions allow us to deploy an IaaS cloud very quickly while also
providing the ability to easily add additional services at an
attractive price point," said Jason
Carolan, vice president of Product Development, ViaWest.
"For customers looking for a turn-key, yet sophisticated
self-service user experience, CA Technologies solutions satisfy
that. Developers enjoy the fact that the CA AppLogic platform
allows them to become more agile and operate more efficiently by
quickly and easily designing and testing complex applications with
the exact middleware and system configuration they will have in
production."
Service Automation
CA Automation Suite for Clouds, CA Process Automation and CA
Service Catalog automate and orchestrate the delivery of IT and
business services across heterogeneous physical, virtual and cloud
resources.
For example, CA Automation Suite for Clouds 1.5 is designed to
help customers deliver cloud services, so they can accelerate time
to market and get applications into production more quickly. This
new release supports VCE Vblock Platforms and adds enhanced cloud
management, security and orchestration capabilities to further
unify cloud automation and simplify the management of multiple
clouds in a single interface.
"We selected CA Automation Suite for Clouds as our preferred
private cloud solution because it helps customers optimize resource
utilization and reduce costs by automating the entire cloud service
workflow and lifecycle," said Chris
Gabriel, marketing director, Logicalis UK. "Our strategy is
to allow customers to focus on the delivery of services, rather
than managing an underlying cloud infrastructure. Only CA
Technologies has the same vision and ability to deliver solutions
that enable this significant and important transition."
CA Technologies Unified Automation solutions are available now
from CA Technologies; the channel partners of CA Technologies,
Cisco, NetApp and VCE, among others; and via the Cloud Commons®
Marketplace. To learn more, please visit booth #G18 at Cisco Live
in London, January 30-February 2, watch a demonstration, or
visit ca.com/UnifiedAutomation and ca.com/VCE.
* "The Total Economic Impact of CA Unified Automation", a
commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of
CA Technologies, January 2012.
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