CA and VMware today announced an expansion in their long-standing
relationship centered around the creation and delivery of integrated
management solutions to complement the VMware virtualization platform.
The relationship is aimed at helping enterprise IT organizations and
cloud service providers manage virtualization for maximum business
impact, while extending its benefits beyond basic server consolidation
and cost reduction. The companies plan to jointly develop a management
solution to maximize IT agility, service quality, cost efficiency and
risk avoidance.
As a first step, CA and VMware have signed an agreement to make CA
Data Center Automation Manager interoperable with VMware
Stage Manager. The joint solution is designed to enable enterprises
and cloud service providers to seamlessly provision applications and
resources from both corporate data center and service provider clouds.
It is intended to help customers efficiently and safely test, stage and
deploy complex applications within virtual environments, and allow
applications hosted on virtualized servers to be operational-ready and
able to be monitored and secured quickly to speed deployment.
The joint solution extends CA’s strength in delivering leading
end-to-end enterprise software change, configuration and release
management through CA
Software Change Manager and CA Data Center Automation Manager. These
products optimize the entire development process through effective
collaboration, lifecycle automation, standards enforcement, and
configuration audit and control.
VMware Stage Manager leverages VMware Infrastructure to enable IT and
application administrators to accelerate release management activities,
streamlining the resources and processes required to move a business
application through integration, test, and staging and ultimately deploy
it into production. VMware Stage Manager also reduces the risks
associated with change-related downtime by enabling IT to easily clone
entire multi-tier systems, allowing exact replicas of the production
environment to be used throughout the release process.
CA Data Center Automation Manager is a key component of CA’s
cloud management strategy announced yesterday. In September 2008,
VMware announced its plans to expand VMware
Infrastructure into a comprehensive Virtual
Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS). The VDC-OS is intended to
allow businesses to efficiently pool all types of hardware
resources—servers, storage and network—into an aggregated on-premise
cloud and, when needed, safely federate workloads to external clouds for
additional compute capacity.
“Many of our shared enterprise customers have moved beyond using
virtualization for server consolidation and cost savings, and are using
CA’s virtualization management technologies to achieve significant
business value,” stated Ajei Gopal, executive vice president of CA’s
EITM Group. “With the combination of CA and VMware’s management and
virtualization technologies, enterprises and cloud providers are able to
apply informed automation in real-time to achieve dramatically improved
business agility, service quality and cost efficiency.”
“Our partnership with CA enables customers to transform their IT
operations by deploying VMware technologies across IT disciplines, along
with leading management technologies, to drive improved service delivery
to the business,” said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and
solutions, VMware. “We look forward to combining the strength of VMware
Stage Manager and CA Data Center Automation Manager to enable rapid
provisioning of development and production applications for our joint
customers.”
Other key highlights of the CA and VMware relationship
CA has integrated CA Data Center Automation Manager with VMware
vCenter to enable IT organizations to provision, manage change,
and automatically allocate resource pools in virtual and physical
environments. The combination uniquely allows enterprise data center
operations to dynamically react in real time based on systems and
application performance information provided by CA eHealth Network
Performance Manager (NPM), CA SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager (NFM), CA
NSM, CA Wily Application Performance Management (APM), and CA AutoSys
Workload Automation.
VMware vCenter capabilities are extended by CA
Advanced Systems Management to enable IT organizations to
discover, monitor, track and optimize performance and utilization of
both virtual and physical servers for integrated systems management.
The combination of CA’s Dynamic Resource Brokering (DRB) technology
and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) capability offers
customers unmatched resource utilization and system reliability as
well as superior product application performance.
CA is a member of the VMware
Ready Program for management solutions, a new ecosystem initiative
to provide integrated solutions for VMware environments. CA also
participates in the VMware
Alliance Affiliate Initiative, with active programs delivering
business results in the areas of infrastructure management and
business continuity.
For more information about how CA’s EITM solutions maximize the business
value of virtualization, please visit www.ca.com/virtual.
About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from
the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to
reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity,
strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion,
more than 120,000 customers and more than 20,000 partners. VMware is one
of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo
Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE:
EMC). For more information, visit www.vmware.com.
About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent IT management
software company. 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.
For more information, visit www.ca.com.
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