Breakthrough CA Data Center Automation Manager for Virtualized and
Physical Environments Dramatically Improves Agility and Efficiency
CA Data Center Automation Manager Uniquely Combines a Rules-Based
Policy Engine, Rich IT Performance and Configuration Data for More
Powerful, Intelligent Automation Decisions
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) October 7, 2008 --
News Facts
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CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today launched CA
Data Center Automation Manager r11.2, a new offering that
increases the responsiveness, performance and cost-effectiveness of
data centers by uniquely providing intelligent, dynamic, policy-driven
provisioning and configuration management of physical and virtual
resources.
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CA Data Center Automation Manager meets the increasing demands of
business-driven IT organizations by improving the speed of service
delivery, ensuring application configuration and availability, and
optimizing virtualization and Green IT initiatives.
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CA’s data center automation solutions enable
customers to take a modular approach to automation based on their
specific priorities and level of process maturity.
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CA has been providing a range of data center automation solutions for
many years across distributed and mainframe environments. In April
2008, CA was named a "Leader" for data center automation solutions in The
Forrester Wave™: Data Center Automation, Q2
2008.*
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This release is one of 10 new and enhanced Enterprise IT Management
(EITM) and Governance solutions CA
has announced today to help organizations address IT management
issues intensified by today’s challenging
economy by better adapting to change, capitalizing on new
opportunities and controlling costs.
Supporting Quotes
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“CA Data Center Automation Manager
dramatically reduces the amount of time it takes to build, configure
and knock down test environments. The time savings will enable us to
do a much more thorough job of testing,”
said David Brattain, senior vice president of Systems, EITM and
Production Support for Elavon. “In
production, the solution’s ability to
dynamically bring up machines based upon performance and other
criteria will be the Holy Grail of virtualization. That’s
a quantum leap from where we are today.”
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“Data centers are increasingly complex and
often operate statically – meaning they are
unable to meet changing business demands. By implementing real-time
infrastructure architectures, IT is empowered to provide agile,
optimized services to the business while meeting changing business
demands,” said Donna Scott, vice president,
Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, Inc. “Automation
enables IT to reduce costs while improving service quality and agility.”
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“In order for data center operations to be
highly available, responsive and business driven, IT processes must be
automated and aligned to the business services they support. This
requires an integrated management portfolio that is agile and dynamic,
capable of meeting the demands of the business in real-time,”
said Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager
of CA’s Infrastructure Management and Data
Center Automation business unit. “CA Data
Center Automation Manager enables businesses to take an informed
approach to automation – based on physical
and virtual systems performance, application performance, service
dependencies, and configuration awareness –
and to respond in real time through optimized virtualization
management and service provisioning. With CA’s
offering, data center owners can take a modular approach to data
center automation, allowing the insight and automation best suited for
their responsiveness, cost efficiency and business service
availability priorities.”
CA Data Center Automation Manager Optimizes Virtualized and Physical
Environments
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CA Data Center Automation Manager uniquely combines a rules-based
policy engine, rich IT performance and configuration data for
intelligent automation of key IT processes: application and systems
discovery, configuration change and detection management, server
performance and utilization monitoring, server and application
provisioning, virtual server provisioning management, and self-service
resource scheduling.
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CA Data Center Automation Manager applies policy-based management and
automation based on granular and detailed virtualized and physical
performance and utilization information. The solution’s
ability to monitor performance and utilization across the entire data
center and down to the individual server or VM ensures resources are
optimized for business continuity and enables IT to make better
informed decisions.
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CA Data Center Automation Manager discovers the dependencies between
heterogeneous application and server infrastructure components for
more informed data center consolidation, virtualization and automation
decisions.
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CA Data Center Automation Manager excels at provisioning physical and
virtual systems from a central console, automatically and dynamically
balancing usage in real time based on policy, to meet business demand.
It also integrates into platform management solutions, such as VMware®
VirtualCenter.
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The CA Data Center Reservation Manager capability provides end-users
the ability to quickly and securely reserve, configure and provision
physical and virtual servers through an automated online self-service
reservation and provisioning interface. Teams across the enterprise
can leverage the tool to improve overall productivity and service
quality.
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CA Data Center Automation Manager provides great breadth and depth of
application and software configuration change and detection
management. It leverages information obtained from discovery and
mapping to monitor and identify changes and alert of any drift in
configuration. The solution uses included blueprints for change
detection of over 500 common operating system and application
components, and provides relationship mapping to ensure
standardization of systems that support business critical services.
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CA Data Center Automation Manager supports Green IT initiatives,
enabling IT to make better informed decisions regarding server
consolidation, power conservation and provisioning to reduce operating
costs. CA Data Center Automation Manager makes this possible by
identifying when servers are running at their lowest capacity and
scheduling and automating the powering down/up of machines, based upon
business policy, during peak and non-peak times.
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CA Data Center Automation Manager integrates with numerous CA
solutions, including CA
AutoSys Workload Automation, CA
NSM, CA
Service Desk, and CA
Wily Introscope.
CA World 2008
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To learn more about how CA solutions help customers govern, manage and
secure IT for greater business value, join the world’s
largest gathering of CA customers and partners at CA
World 2008, November 16-20, 2008, at The Venetian Congress and
Sands Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
* Forrester, Inc., "The Forrester Wave™:
Data Center Automation, Q2 2008" by Evelyn Hubbert, April 2008.
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Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more
effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business
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