CA Technologies Unites System z and Cloud to Advance Management and Control in Today’s Dynamic Data Center
November 13 2013 - 3:05PM
Business Wire
Innovative New Solutions Reduce Cost, Improve
Storage Operations and Speed Delivery of Applications on System
z
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced innovative solutions
that help customers unite IBM System z and the cloud. With new and
updated offerings that support storage, virtualized environments
and application delivery for System z, CA Technologies is helping
customers meet the management demands of the dynamic data centers
they operate today and reduce costs and improve operations by
blending mainframe and cloud capabilities.
“Businesses today are operating at a velocity that has
introduced incredible and sometimes unexpected demand on the data
center. The emergence of shadow IT and the explosion of mobile
applications are forcing data center operations to dynamically
expand and contract at the will of the user,” said Michael Madden,
general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies. “By providing the
tools that marry the capabilities of System z and the cloud we are
helping customers efficiently and cost-effectively deliver an
expanded portfolio of IT services designed for business
responsiveness.”
Blending System z with cloud infrastructures offers greater
flexibility to manage the dynamic data center and balance workloads
across platforms. A commissioned study* conducted by Forrester
Consulting on behalf of IBM, says organizations that include
mainframe in cloud infrastructures can enable a broad mix of
infrastructure service options. “You could offer Linux virtual
machines from both the mainframe (when high SLAs are sought) and
from commodity infrastructure (when SLAs are lower). Mainframes
also can better accommodate high densities of very small workloads
with resource guarantees — something very difficult to achieve on
commodity resources,” the study further stated.
CA Technologies is supporting System z and the cloud with
several new releases that power the dynamic data center with
improved efficiencies and cost savings. Today’s announcement
includes:
- CA Cloud Storage for System z:
When used with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage and the
Riverbed Whitewater™ cloud storage appliance, CA Cloud Storage for
System z helps customers lower storage costs to pennies per
gigabyte and improve storage management operations. Please see
related press release for additional information.
- CA AppLogic® for System z: provides the
optimal platform for a company’s private cloud initiatives. It
helps customers deliver business services and address the
technology mandates for increased scale requirements and server
consolidation by providing a turnkey solution for Linux deployments
on System z. The solution accelerates and simplifies the design and
deployment of Linux systems on the mainframe by providing
architects with drag and drop functionality to build entire
applications and deploy them in minutes.
- CA VM:Manager™ Suite for Linux on
System z: New releases of CA z/VM solutions optimize the
mainframe virtual environment to better support cloud computing and
server consolidation initiatives. Enhanced support for IBM z/VM
6.3, which enables Linux guests to be easily moved across a single
system image cluster, helps customers control costs, improve
performance and increase user productivity to maximize the z/VM
systems that support Linux.
“The growth of System z and the increased adoption of Linux on
the mainframe make it an optimal platform for reliably and cost
effectively delivering IT services that support opportunities
around cloud, big data and mobile,” said Joe Clabby, president,
Clabby Analytics. “The innovations from CA Technologies empower
next-generation IT workers to bridge the hybrid IT gap and manage
the cross-enterprise and cross-platform operations in today’s
dynamic data center with the speed and efficiency that businesses
demand.”
Customers can further enhance their application delivery for
System z by incorporating the CA LISA® Service Virtualization
solution into their development operations. The solution allows
customers to create simulations of their mainframe environments
freeing development and test teams from common constraints such as
system unavailability and conflicting development schedules. The
latest version CA LISA 7.1 offers new and enhanced mainframe
features including support for more mainframe protocols and the
ability to virtualize more types of mainframe implementations.
Enhanced mainframe support includes the IMS Connect protocol for
IMS gateway transactions and full support for standard system IRM
headers (LLLL/LL ZZ) and COBOL copybook or XML parsers used with
IMS Connect.
Additional solutions and capabilities supporting System z
were announced today to help customers optimize performance and
more easily manage mainframe applications within the dynamic data
center. For more information on the solutions, which include CA
File Master Plus, CA Endevor® Software Change Manager and CA
Sysview Performance Management, please visit CA Mainframe
Voice.
Together these solutions reflect the commitment CA Technologies
has to help companies harness the full capabilities of System z and
the cloud, so they can improve business services for employees and
customers at high speed, low cost and minimal risk.
*Private Clouds Will Use Hybrid Infrastructure, January 2013
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions
that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to
support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA
Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation,
transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the
data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at
www.ca.com.
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