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Technologies announced a
next-generation CA Automation Suite to help customers with their
journey to a virtualized, dynamic cloud computing infrastructure. The
suite is designed to offer a comprehensive, business service-centric
approach 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,” he said.
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 towards helping
enterprises accelerate the benefits of virtualization and cloud
computing.
“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 Chris Gebelin, Executive
Director-Enterprise Management, MGM Resorts International. “Our
investment in the CA Technologies automation solutions has enabled us
to improve staff productivity and IT resource utilization,” he
further added.
The CA Automation Suite features two
new products and enhancements to four other products. All the
products may be purchased and implemented separately or in three new
pre-integrated solutions designed for critical use-case requirements:
hybrid clouds, Cisco UCS, and datacenters.
“The promise of greater agility,
increased ROI and improved resource utilization is driving rapid
implementation of virtualization and cloud computing initiatives
across enterprise datacenters,” said Roger Pilc, GM-Virtualization
and Automation, CA Technologies. “However, this results in an
additional layer of management complexity that can constrain IT's
ability to meet business needs. The CA Automation Suite is designed
to absorb this complexity, helping IT to increase agility, reduce
risk and cost, and improve service delivery while aligning with the
business in unprecedented, transformational ways,” he concluded.