New Version of CA Network Management Offers a Comprehensive,
Integrated Solution for Improving Service Availability and
Optimizing Operations
Consolidated View of Network Performance, Service, Fault and
Configuration Management—Plus New
Integrations Across CA Infrastructure Management Solutions—Deliver
Greater Business Value
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) October 7, 2008 --
CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA):
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CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) announced today a new version of CA
Network Management, the only fully integrated solution for
seamless network performance, service, fault and configuration
management.
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The new version of CA Network Management includes significant
enhancements to CA
eHealth Network Performance Manager (NPM) and CA
SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager (NFM) that enable organizations to
improve the efficiency of managing their network and better support
business services.
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The CA Network Management solution helps customers to dramatically
improve service availability, achieve network service commitments and
avoid network outages to increase mean time before failure (MTBF). The
solution also helps to resolve network service problems quickly to
decrease mean time to repair (MTTR) and maximize network asset
utilization to reduce operational and capital expenditures.
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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 through adaptability to changing business conditions, flexible
support for innovation and growth and cost control.
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“Like many IT organizations, we are faced
with delivering increased SLAs and supporting new services in our
network infrastructure with fewer people and dollars,”
said Mark Perlstein, president of IT Outsourcing, CIBER. “CA’s
integrated network fault, performance and configuration management
solution reduces the time it takes to find and fix problems due to
more granular, real-time analysis and reporting. We can proactively
manage network service performance and utilization to avoid
user-impacting degradations or outages. When problems do occur, we can
quickly resolve them with the root cause analysis to focus on the
origin of the problem. The level of insight the CA Network Management
solution provides has allowed us to move from reactive firefighting to
proactive, strategic IT management that maximizes our network
availability.”
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“Enterprises, service providers and
government agencies are all being challenged with critical service
performance requirements in the face of ever more complex
infrastructures and more frequent change,”
said Dennis Drogseth, vice president, Enterprise Management
Associates. “While best-of-breed-tools
serve a purpose, IT organizations and network managers will be most
successful when they can evolve beyond siloed toolsets toward more
modular, cohesive and functionally integrated solution sets. By
bringing enhanced support for CMDB systems, application performance,
and network configuration management into the network management
arena, CA is taking a significant step forward in this direction.”
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“The CA Network Management solution is
designed to help IT support the business with improved network and
service availability at a lower cost,” said
Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA’s
Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. “The
solution’s new capabilities and
integrations with other CA solutions further reduce the administrative
overhead associated with disparate applications managing the same set
of network assets and services.”
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CA eHealth Network Performance Manager r6.1
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CA eHealth NPM r6.1 improves network service availability across
IT infrastructure by proactively pinpointing service degradations
to enable corrective action before users and business processes
are affected. New enhancements to the solution include:
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Live reporting and monitoring features, including historical and
live trending on a single screen, analysis down to 30-second
intervals, and a time-over-threshold (TOT) availability rule to
reduce false positives during planned and transient conditions.
These features move users further from reactive to proactive network
management by alerting them of systemic performance issues before
users and business processes are adversely affected.
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New traffic monitoring, application usage and reporting features,
including an embedded NetFlow V9 collector, pre-defined reports, and
custom report-building capabilities. These features allow customers
to identify application traffic on the network and who is using
those applications. The result is faster mean-time-to-repair (MTTR)
network issues based on application usage, which reduces the
business impact of poorly performing networks.
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CA SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager r9.0
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CA SPECTRUM NFM r9.0 helps IT organizations avoid the risk and
cost of unreliable network operations by providing best-in-class,
integrated network service, fault and configuration management.
The enhanced version includes several new network change and
configuration management features that provide the ability to
capture and store configurations, automate tasks, detect and audit
changes, maintain policy compliance, and produce activity reports
that enable faster MTTR and reduce business impact. Other
enhancements to the solution include:
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A new Network Configuration Manager Extension Toolkit allows
customers to self-certify any network device for configuration
management and new capabilities for integrated network
configuration management.
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A new module to integrate event information from a wider range of
sources. This will help to enrich events and alarms with external
data often located in multiple databases and to forward alarm
information to multiple sources.
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Both CA eHealth NPM r6.1 and CA SPECTRUM NFM r9.0 include several
new, common features that provide continuous time-to-value:
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CA eHealth NPM and CA SPECTRUM NFM are designed to support IPv6.
This functionality is important to many government agencies, service
providers and large enterprises.
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Continued investment in adding to and expanding the breadth of
device certifications, which reduces the amount of time and money
required to deploy new network devices by eliminating manual
procedures.
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An enriched, consistent Web-based "OneClick" user interface that
provides greater efficiencies for network administrators, managers
and operators.
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New Integrations with CA Solutions
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The CA Network Management solution helps customers to simplify
network performance, fault and voice management and unify these
disciplines with other CA management solutions for IT service
availability management. Following are the newest integrations
with CA's Application
Performance Management; Change,
Configuration and Release Management; and Database
Management solutions:
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CA SPECTRUM NFM and CA eHealth NPM: New synchronized network
device discovery, synchronized naming, and single sign-on improves
the efficiency of managing network devices;
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CA SPECTRUM NFM and CA
Wily Introscope: New capability for CA SPECTRUM NFM to
discover Introscope agents, create models and receive alarms
enables a tight integration between network service, fault and
configuration management and application performance management;
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CA SPECTRUM NFM and CA
CMDB: New ability to export CA SPECTRUM NFM managed assets in
a Configuration Item (CI) format compatible with CA CMDB improves
the efficiency of maintaining a configuration repository;
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CA SPECTRUM NFM, CA eHealth NPM and CA
Insight Database Performance Monitor: Newly enhanced
visibility into databases for faster resolution of network
performance issues.
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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.
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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,
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Network Performance Manager, CA eHealth, CA SPECTRUM Network Fault
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configuration management, mean time to repair, MTTR, time over
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