CA Technologies intros next-generation automation suite

CA

Technologies has

announced a next-generation lang="zxx"> style="text-decoration: none;">CA

Automation Suite face="Times New Roman, serif">

to help customers with their journey to a virtualized, dynamic cloud

computing infrastructure. The suite is designed to offer a

comprehensive, lang="en-AU">business

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to the dynamic deployment and elastic scaling of IT infrastructure

and services by automating, orchestrating, integrating and

standardizing the provisioning and management of physical, virtual

and cloud resources.

“Enterprise

datacenter

virtualization and cloud computing strategies are being

rapidly implemented across heterogeneous physical and virtual

infrastructures,” said Mary Johnston Turner, Research

Director-Enterprise

System Management Software, IDC. “These new computing architectures

significantly complicate many activities, such as application and

server provisioning, and change management. Automated provisioning

solutions are needed to help IT teams address these challenges. The

CA Automation Suite targets many of these requirements while

providing customers with modular implementation options designed to

deliver value quickly and allowing customers to ramp up use of

automation at a pace that makes sense for their business.”

face="Times New Roman, serif">The

CA Automation Suite is designed to offer a comprehensive solution to

help solve the most challenging IT operational tasks. Designed with

unified physical and virtualization management in mind, the suite

provides a clear path toward helping enterprises accelerate the

benefits of virtualization and cloud computing. face="Times New Roman, serif">

“MGM

Resorts deployed components of the CA Automation Suite in early 2010

in order to standardize and streamline physical and virtual server

provisioning and life-cycle management activities,” said face="Times New Roman, serif">

Chris

Gebelin, Executive Director-Enterprise Management of MGM Resorts

International. “Our

investment in the CA Technologies automation solutions has enabled us

to improve staff productivity and IT resource utilization,” he

added.

The

CA

Automation Suite features two new products and enhancements to four

other products. All the products may be purchased and implemented

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pre-integrated solutions designed for critical use-case requirements,

hybrid clouds, Cisco UCS, and datacenters.