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CA Inc: CA Delivers Eight New and Enhanced Management Solutions to
Help Organizations Reduce Costs and Manage Risk; Offerings Advance CA's
Enterprise IT Management Vision to Govern, Manage and Secure
Information Technology
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:09062008
ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced eight new and
updated solutions that deliver on CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM)
vision to enable customers to govern, manage and secure their IT
environments. CA's new offerings include products for managing
compliance and risk across mainframe and distributed computing
environments; and products that build on CA's latest advances in
automation to enable enterprise IT organizations to implement
consistent management policies and processes across computing platforms
and organizational boundaries, streamline essential IT operations, and
more readily implement best-practice frameworks such as ITIL and COBIT.
"Today's successful businesses understand that IT can be a powerful
competitive weapon," said Ajei Gopal, executive vice president of CA's
EITM Group. "CA's EITM vision is designed to enable our customers to
use IT to win in the marketplace. With CA solutions, IT organizations
can contribute to the growth, profitability, and adaptability of the
businesses they serve, while tightly controlling costs. CA continues to
deliver on its EITM vision with innovative technologies that address
our customers' most pressing challenges, and also deliver long-term
value by supporting and driving business priorities."
EITM is CA's strategic vision for changing the way enterprises manage
IT. It provides customers with an integrated and modular approach to
govern, manage and secure IT environments, while aligning IT to the
company's business imperatives.
"In today's high-stakes/high-risk markets, companies have to consider
IT a strategic value center--rather than simply managing it as a cost
center," said Judith Hurwitz, president of Hurwitz & Associates. "CA is
focusing on helping IT organizations improve efficiency through
automation and better resource allocation."
Helping to Facilitate Compliance and Enforce Policy
Five of the CA solutions announced today improve enterprise-wide risk
management by helping organizations address both external regulations
and internal performance objectives. CA's solutions help reduce
associated costs and enable implementation of best practices for
identifying, measuring, analyzing and balancing risk. Several of the
solutions have been specifically designed to facilitate adherence to
SOX, PCI Standard, HIPAA, COBIT, and many other important standards.
* CA GRC Manager r1.5 offers risk management, compliance and audit
professionals powerful new capabilities to centrally manage risk and
compliance initiatives across the entire enterprise. The new version
enables organizations to manage business policies throughout their
lifecycle, correlate and analyze key performance and risk indicators,
and automate GRC program management to help ensure peak performance.
* CA Security Compliance Manager* is a new product that improves IT
security and helps facilitate compliance with legal, corporate and
government regulations. CA Security Compliance Manager is designed to
automatically detect security policy or compliance violations, such as
inactive or orphan accounts, and initiate remediation. It also
streamlines the manual processes around certification and attestation
of entitlements. CA Security Compliance Manager integrates with CA
Identity Manager, CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret, CA GRC Manager and CA
Service Desk. It delivers compliance reports that show "who has access
to what," "who can do what" and "who approved what"-while simplifying
corrective action.
* CA Access Control Premium Edition improves its customers' approach to
IT security and compliance by providing cross-platform creation,
deployment and management of more specific, role-based access controls
for servers. With the support of an automated distribution and endpoint
update system, CA Access Control Premium Edition can manage thousands
of endpoints from a single server and accommodate large deployments. It
also provides aggregated, proactive reporting on entitlements and
policy status so that out-of-policy issues can be corrected before they
create security or compliance problems.
* CA Identity Manager r12 gives organizations unprecedented
capabilities to manage identities from creation to modification to
removal in both mainframe and distributed environments. The
architecture, installation, administration and reporting enhancements
made to this release help organizations reduce the complexity and cost
of an identity management deployment, while easing compliance
initiatives. CA Identity Manager supports integration and customization
with specialized systems and applications through a wizard-based
identity integration tool.
* CA Software Compliance Manager* is a new product that enables
organizations to dramatically reduce the risks and costs associated
with managing software licenses. Today many businesses rely on manual,
unrepeatable processes to manage software licenses. This increases the
risk of software audit failure. CA Software Compliance Manager helps
establish sustainable and continuous compliance processes that help
meet regulatory mandates. It eases audit processes by integrating
software asset data from third party and CA inventory tools and then
normalizes it for proper license management.
Improving Efficiency and Value Through Automation and Policy-Based
Controls
According to a February 26, 2008 report by Forrester Research entitled
"Data Center Automation Defined", IT spends about 75% of its budget on
ongoing operations and maintenance. One major reason for this is the
absence of mechanisms to automate tasks. Many factors lead to the
rising labor costs associated with the management and maintenance of
infrastructure, and the only way to counter these factors is to adopt
automation to reduce costs and increase efficiency wherever possible.
Three of the solutions introduced by CA use automation to align IT with
the business, improve efficiency and reduce cost:
* CA IT Process Manager* is a new product that strengthens CA's Data
Center Automation solutions by automating IT processes across the data
center. It is designed to drive down management costs and increase
productivity, while enforcing best practices aimed at improving
performance and availability of critical business applications. CA IT
Process Manager transforms IT management and the ability to deliver
services to the business faster by allowing organizations to design,
build, orchestrate, manage and report on workflows that support IT
operations processes.
Customers can automate and visualize critical IT processes around key
IT initiatives including workload automation, data center automation,
disaster recovery, consolidation, ITIL/ITSM, provisioning, security and
virtualization management by leveraging deep integration to more than
30 IT management solutions from CA, as well as IBM, BMC, HP and
Microsoft.
* CA Advanced Systems Management r11.2 builds on CA's commitment to
provide customers a vendor- and platform-neutral solution that
streamlines the management of physical and virtual server environments.
Expanding CA's support for a broad array of virtualization platforms,
CA Advanced Systems Management now integrates with VMware VirtualCenter
and supports Sun's logical domains. It also provides unique insight for
virtual and cluster environments through physical-to-virtual mapping of
the enterprise server infrastructure. This functionality helps
customers continuously assess, manage and optimize virtual system
resources to verify service availability.
* CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation r11.6 automates management
of z/OS system resources and features a Switch Operations Facility
(SOF) that enables mainframe system administrators to quickly
visualize, monitor, and manage the health of complex Enterprise Systems
Connection and Fiber Connectivity infrastructures. These
infrastructures, which connect mainframes to peripheral resources such
as storage devices, are critically important for the delivery of IT
services, but also are notoriously difficult and time-consuming to
manage. With the SOF, IT staff can manage this infrastructure more
effectively in less time.
For more information, including video, white papers and other material
related to today's announcements, please see
http://ca.com/eitm/businessvalue.
* Denotes new products announced today.
About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA), one of the world's largest independent software
companies, provides software solutions to unify and simplify(TM) IT
management. 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.
Founded in 1976, CA serves customers in virtually every country in the
world.
CONTACT: Leanne Agurkis CA, Inc.
Tel: +1 386 738 1912
e-mail: leanne.agurkis@ca.com
WWW: http://www.ca.com
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