CA Introduces New and Enhanced Solutions to Help Customers Gain Greater Return from Virtualized Environments

CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced 12 new and updated Enterprise IT Management products that will help enterprises and service providers gain increased business value from virtualized environments. CA's solutions allow organizations to realize greater cost savings, efficiency and flexibility from virtualized computing environments through comprehensive capabilities for IT management, governance, automation and security.

"CA Enterprise IT Management customers can achieve a balance between control and business agility when managing virtualized resources and systems," said Ajei Gopal, CA's executive vice president of products and technology. "CA solutions build on the management capabilities within popular virtualization platforms, but then extend those with enterprise-class, heterogeneous management for improved overall business results."

Enterprises are increasingly relying on virtualization, with 31 percent of operating system instances virtualized in 2008 and growing to 54 percent in 2010, according to an independent survey of hardware decision makers in North America and Europe, conducted Forrester Research, Inc.* By simplifying and automating the management of virtualized and physical environments, CA helps customers to reduce business risks and deploy virtualization more rapidly and confidently in their heterogeneous production environments. Unlike many other providers, CA has specifically architected its technology for virtualization, including solutions for infrastructure management, service management, application performance management, business-driven automation and security management.

"Enterprise customers building VMware-based virtualized infrastructures can achieve higher levels of cross-infrastructure visibility and automation with CA's complementary management solutions," said Shekar Ayyar, vice president, infrastructure alliances, VMware. "CA and VMware's management solutions present a compelling combination for joint customers to maximize the return on their virtualization investments and enable further expansion of their virtual infrastructure."

New and Enhanced Products from CA Help Reduce the Business Risks and Increase the Benefits of Virtualization

New and enhanced products announced today for enterprises and service providers include the following solutions for Infrastructure Management and Business-Driven Automation:

    --  NEW:  CA Spectrum(R) Service Assurance is designed to offer a single pane
        of glass to display the impact of the physical and virtual IT
        infrastructure on the services it supports.  This CA innovation improves
        IT service quality and predictability by pinpointing the root cause of
        quality problems and risks to quality.  It can also help lower IT costs
        by reducing trouble-shooting and speeding mean-time-to-repair.  The
        product is designed to provide superior visualization of infrastructure
        in the context of IT services; a fast, flexible and accurate way to
        build end-to-end service models; automated analytics to help fix quality
        problems and proactively reduce risk; clear service reports for making
        good management decisions and for communicating better with business
        stakeholders; and integration with the most powerful, scalable domain
        managers to retrieve infrastructure, application performance and root
        cause information.

    --  CA Spectrum Automation Manager r11.7 is designed to help customers
        streamline their IT processes through centralized application
        configuration management and dynamic resource provisioning across
        physical, virtual, and cloud environments. This new version includes
        rapid physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) server
        provisioning to help simplify the adoption and expansion of
        virtualization deployments and enable quicker server recovery. It will
        also features extended support across VMware vSphere(TM), Citrix
        Xen(TM), IBM LPAR, Sun Solaris(TM) and other platforms for centralized
        management of heterogeneous environments -- helping to improve cost
        efficiency, agility, service quality, and mitigating IT and business
        risk.

    --  CA eHealth(R) Performance Manager r6.2 is designed to proactively monitor
        the performance of data and voice networks, physical and virtual
        systems, databases, and client/server applications across physical and
        virtual environments. This new version is designed to discover VMware
        and other virtual environments, collect important metrics needed to
        maintain optimum performance, be alerted when performance approaches
        thresholds, and view performance of the virtual infrastructure and
        report on the collected performance metrics to validate expected service
        levels.  The solution is also planned to feature enhanced environmental
        and energy monitoring as a valuable complement to CA's virtualization
        management capabilities

    --  CA Insight(TM) Database Performance Manager r11.3 is designed to
        proactively monitor performance (providing both real-time and historical
        views) across DB2(R) for Linux(R), UNIX(R) and Windows(R); Oracle; SQL
        Server(R) and Sybase databases, whether they reside in physical, virtual
        or cloud environments. The product is designed to share this information
        with the other CA domain managers to provide end-to-end visibility into
        database health across IT.  New capabilities in this version include
        continuous monitoring of databases in VMware environments -- even across
        hot migrations performed using VMware VMotion(TM) -- without user
        interaction, as well as enhanced support for VMware performance through
        proactive monitoring of the VMware vCenter(TM) Server repository.  Other
        planned features include integration with CA Spectrum Service Assurance;
        a new enterprise view for "at-a-glance" problem assessment; improved
        root-cause analysis of SQL performance and a unified browser-based
        interface for distributed and mainframe databases.

"Acxiom(R) is planning to use CA Spectrum Automation Manager in combination with other Acxiom technology assets to manage an internal cloud that increases IT efficiency and drives down cost," said David Guzman, vice president and chief information officer of Acxiom. "CA Spectrum Automation Manager will help Acxiom continue to deliver quality services while optimizing existing resources across our pool of servers by automatically provisioning/de-provisioning physical and virtual servers within our internal grid."

In additional announcements last week and today, CA announced other new and updated products that help improve the management of virtualized environments, including:

Security and Compliance

    --  CA Access Control 12.5 with new features to deliver comprehensive
        privileged user management and enhanced host access control;
    --  Improved integration of CA Identity Manager 12.5 and CA Role &
        Compliance Manager 12.5 for more streamlined identity lifecycle
        management, including innovative Smart Provisioning capabilities;
    --  CA DLP 12.0 with extended discovery, protection, and control of
        sensitive data, and new integrations to complementary solutions;
    --  CA Records Manager 12.6 with additional features for information
        governance and content protection, as well as addressing compliance
        demands; and

    --  CA Governance, Risk & Compliance Manager 2.5 (CA GRC Manager) with new
        features to further strengthen its role as the primary platform for
        management of IT risk and compliance information and initiatives.

Governance

    --  CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Management helps IT to make strategic
        decisions about how resources are deployed and what can and should be
        virtualized for greater return. New features available in CA Clarity PPM
        On Demand enhance the ease of use, simplify reporting, leverage industry
        best practices and allow for quick access to critical portfolio
        information.

Energy and Sustainability Management

    --  NEW:  CA ecoMeter and CA ecoGovernance    help enterprises to manage
        global sustainability initiatives, measure and report on energy and
        natural resource consumption, and help reduce energy costs across the
        datacenter and facilities.  With these new solutions, customers can
        reliably monitor and track their energy savings from server
        virtualization.

Services and Support

CA also announced today new rapid implementation offerings for CA Spectrum Automation Manager and CA Spectrum Assurance. Rapid implementations are pre-packaged, fixed-price services and education that provide the experience, best practices and expertise that can ensure a fast and successful implementation.

CA's new enhanced support maintenance tiers, CA Business Critical Support Plus and CA Business Critical Support Premier, help customers to increase their productivity with personalized support services and product training, including designated engineers who understand the impact of CA's virtualization management solutions on their business.

Visit CA to learn more about CA's EITM products, services, education and support that help customers get greater return from virtualization.

* "The State Of Emerging Enterprise Hardware Trends: 2008 To 2009," Forrester Research, Inc., February 27, 2009

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