Andi Mann, VP of Virtualization Product Management for CA discusses CA Technologies cloud computing strategy and how VMware fits into this strategy. Courtesy of CA Technologies / YouTube

Las Vegas, USA - November 15, 2011 - CA WORLD

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced its Next-Generation Mainframe Management strategy, designed to address the most pressing customer needs to reduce costs, sustain critical skills, and increase IT agility in the hybrid data center and the cloud.

Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies. Courtesy of CA Technologies / YouTube

“Our Next-Generation Mainframe Management strategy focuses on increasing IT agility by delivering ground-breaking innovation across every facet of mainframe management,” said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies.
“This strategic focus also expands our cross-enterprise management capabilities, to help accelerate cost savings and improve productivity as the IT workforce converges from platform-based silos into a unified management team.”

CA World 2011, November 13 -16, 2011, Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, USA. Courtesy of CA Technologies

With the Next-Generation Mainframe Management strategy, CA Technologies plans to deliver innovative solutions that:

• Embrace the IBM® zEnterprise™ hybrid architecture;

• Enable the mainframe in private and hybrid clouds;

• Empower the multi-platform, converging IT workforce;

• Extend management to support multi-vendor environments.

Tim Grieser, Program Vice President, IDC. Courtesy of IDC / YouTube

“As companies move to a private/hybrid cloud-based strategy, mainframes running mission-critical data, applications, and services need to move with them,” said Tim Grieser, Program Vice President, IDC.
“CA Technologies Next-Generation Mainframe Management, by enabling cloud computing on the mainframe, will bridge the gap between cross-platform cloud computing and the security, speed and reliability of mainframe transaction processing and data access.”

Mycroft Inc's Jonathan Freeman and Elizabeth Mann talk about how to ensure your cloud is secure. Courtesy of CA Technologies / YouTube

Enhancements to CA Technologies mainframe solutions include:

• Expanding its revolutionary management workspace, CA Mainframe Chorus, a graphically rich, role-based approach to managing mainframe workloads, to include:

− Two new roles for Security and Compliance and Storage Management, announced today;
− New releases of the Chorus platform and the DB2 for z/OS Database Management role, also announced today;
− The base for development of seamless, cross-platform management solutions.

• Integrating cross-platform management for application performance and process automation, to help IT proactively manage services across the enterprise.
For example, with the CA Cross Enterprise Application Performance Management solution, IT can trace transactions through distributed and mainframe environments, across virtualized and physical systems within the firewall and into the cloud.

Mycroft Inc's Jonathan Freeman and Elizabeth Mann talk about how to ensure your cloud is secure. Courtesy of CA Technologies / YouTube

Future plans include creating a design and private/hybrid cloud platform designed to enable System z customers to build and manage services that help:

• Reduce operations costs and time-to-value for new applications;

• Add portability and interoperation of management applications across the enterprise and with service providers;

• Provide mainframe-based, cross-platform business service innovation to truly enable enterprise cloud computing.

Mycroft Inc's Jonathan Freeman and Elizabeth Mann talk about how to ensure your cloud is secure. Courtesy of CA Technologies / YouTube

With its comprehensive management strategy, CA Technologies deepens its commitment to deliver innovative solutions designed to increase IT agility now and into the future, and help customers control costs and sustain critical skills including:

• Mainframe Value Program, a free assessment that helps customers maximize the value of the CA software they already own.

• Mainframe Software Rationalization Program, which helps organizations minimize costs by consolidating multiple vendors’ software into a standardized, integrated management stack.

• Support for specialty processors and zLinux, enabling customers to realize additional cost savings.

• Modernizing and simplifying mainframe management for the converging IT workforce with its CA Mainframe Software Manager and CA Mainframe Chorus.

• Delivering education via the CA Mainframe Academy for the next-generation IT workforce.

Mycroft Inc's Jonathan Freeman and Elizabeth Mann talk about how to ensure your cloud is secure. Courtesy of CA Technologies / YouTube

"Today's announcement from CA Technologies helps demonstrate the value of zEnterprise to our mutual clients,” said Greg Lotko, vice president and business line executive for System z at IBM.
“The industry’s ongoing innovations in System z, such as the investments from CA Technologies, is another example of how the mainframe ecosystem is stronger than ever.”

Greg Lotko, vice president and business line executive for System z at IBM. Courtesy of IBM / YouTube

This news supports customers as they transition from simply managing IT to delivering business services.

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CA Technologies applies a unique value roadmap to each customer’s business goals to deliver Business Service Innovation: new levels of speed, innovation, performance and cost/risk efficiencies.

Radix Technologies' Stephan Grouitch and David Corriveau share their secrets behind making cloud computing ultra-secure and how they can spin up new cloud services in minutes. Courtesy of CA Technologies / YouTube

About CA Technologies


CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud.

CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services.

Radix Technologies' Stephan Grouitch and David Corriveau share their secrets behind making cloud computing ultra-secure and how they can spin up new cloud services in minutes. Courtesy of CA Technologies / YouTube

CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility.

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The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems.

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Press Contacts

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CA Technologies
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Source: CA Technologies

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CA Technologies defined the typical role based on input from customers who participated in several beta test exercises. Developers worked closely with customers, engaging in deep on-site immersions for weeks at a time. They watched how users performed their jobs and how they interacted with database management tools. So, some of the functionality that is ready for use “out of the box” is likely to be useful to all DBAs. Courtesy of CA Technologies

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Dayton Semerjian on the Future of the Mainframe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klZ86W6JH-A  

CA Mainframe Chorus can help to address the three issues discussed. Courtesy of CA Technologies

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Dayton Semerjian on Mainframe 2.0

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The idea that mainframe discipline is on the decline, while an overstatement, is founded on a comparison of current mainframe staffing models with those of the past. There is some truth in the observation that the old model is breaking down today in many mainframe shops. Partly, this is owed to changes that have occurred in the mainframe platform itself. The operating system has undergone several evolutions over the past three decades and some of the system management functionality has been moved into utility software, augmented in many cases by additional software utilities from many sources. Courtesy of CA Technologies

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CA Technologies Cloud Intro

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CA Technologies embrace of design concepts like TEIID and metadata data management enable CA Mainframe Chorus to import data from documents like spreadsheets that may be referenced in performing certain tasks. Taken together, these features help to unclutter management workstation and to make the mainframer better able to perform multiple tasks with no significant loss of efficiency. This effectively addresses the first issue cited by mainframe detractors and ensures that the legendary discipline of mainframe operations can be sustained going forward. Courtesy of CA Technologies

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CA Technologies Cloud Customers & Partners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34tjhQNN8hM&feature=relmfu  

CA Mainframe Chorus is well on its way to delivering the change to the mainframe experience that will help address the challenges that threaten the sustainability of mainframe computing going forward. In addition to delivering functionality that increases the efficiency of mainframe staff, it also addresses the more complex issues of cultivating continued interest in the platform among next generation operators and transferring to them the knowledge and skills they will require to perpetuate the platform’s well deserved reputation for discipline and reliability. Courtesy of CA Technologies

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Can your cloud be ultra-secure?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JliJCrtAIgY  


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Can you have your cloud and be secure too?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgHh0rPG5Dk&feature=related  


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zEnterprise and the Mainframe's Future - CA Technologies' Dayton Semerjian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSK88YVUKGs&feature=related  


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VMware and CA Technologies Cloud Computing Strategy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4-f9i-D51g  



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