ISLANDIA, N.Y., and SUNNYVALE,
Calif.-February 9, 2010-CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) and NetApp
(NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced an extension of their multi-year
solutions partnership to develop management solutions for public
and private cloud environments. As a result, the companies are
integrating CA's virtualization,
automation and
service assurance
offerings with NetApp's storage management solutions. The unified
solutions will further help customers drive operational
efficiencies through improved business agility, productivity and
service quality, while also helping to lower costs and reduce risks
that are associated with virtualization and cloud-based
infrastructures.
"Our expanded solutions partnership with
NetApp will not only bolster CA's storage management capabilities,
it also will help ensure CA's continued ability to deliver
end-to-end infrastructure management-an important capability as our
customers begin using public and private cloud services to drive
business growth," said Tom Kendra, executive vice president of
Enterprise Products and Solutions at CA. "These integrations will
help customers create, deploy and manage cloud-based business
services across multiple infrastructure elements, including
storage."
"Integrating NetApp® storage and data
management solutions with CA's virtualization, automation and
service assurance solutions will help customers better manage the
complex IT environments that support their cloud services," said
Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances for
NetApp. "Our mutual customers will now be able to leverage a single
solution to provision and manage all of the infrastructure
components that comprise their cloud service offerings, simplifying
their data center environment while improving operational and cost
efficiencies."
Following is a brief overview of how CA and
NetApp are currently working to integrate their products:
Integrating CA Spectrum®
Automation Manager with
NetApp Provisioning Manager would enable customers to automate
their cloud infrastructure end-to-end. It would streamline the
provisioning process for faster deployment times and support
improved utilization of critical resources through NetApp
Provisioning Manager's storage policy and efficiency options. The
integration would also allow the storage to be automated alongside
the server, network and applications in an orchestrated
fashion.
Additional integrations that CA and NetApp
are planning include:
CA Spectrum®
Service Assurance analyzes information from infrastructure and
application performance management tools to indicate how network,
physical and virtual systems, database, and application problems
impact business service quality. It also determines the root cause
of any problems so fixes can be implemented prior to business
service impact. The integration of CA Spectrum Service Assurance
with the
NetApp SANscreen® suite would extend the CA solution's
business service modeling capability into the storage domain and
provide users with valuable new insight into how storage status
impacts specific business services or puts them at risk.
CA Spectrum®
Infrastructure Manager and CA eHealth®
Performance Manager intend to extend their support for NetApp's
fault and performance management products. Initially, CA plans to
integrate storage service violations and performance data from
SANscreen. This would provide enhanced and expanded proactive
performance monitoring with live analysis, performance dashboards
and powerful reporting.
About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA), the world's leading independent IT management
software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business
results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and
distributed computing enable Lean IT-empowering organizations to
more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For
more information, visit www.ca.com/us/.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost
efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around
the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. NetApp, the
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Nothing herein (i) affects the rights and/or obligations of CA or
its licensees under any existing or future written license
agreement or services agreement relating to any CA software
product; or (ii) amends any product documentation or specifications
for any CA software product. The development, release and timing of
any features or functionality described herein remain at CA's sole
discretion. The word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a
legal partnership relationship between NetApp and any other
company.
Press Contacts:
David Resnic
CA, Inc.
Phone: (508) 628-8426
david.resnic@ca.com
Ryan Lowry
NetApp
Phone: (408) 822-7544
ryanl@netapp.com