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New Predictive Analytics in CA Capacity Management Enhance Business Service Reliability
MUMBAI, August 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
CA Technologies Service Assurance Solution Increases Data Center Efficiency by
Accurately Forecasting Required Resources
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a new release of CA Capacity Management
[http://www.ca.com/us/capacity-management.aspx ] that enables enterprises and service
providers to provide more reliable business services by better predicting the optimal
resources needed to support applications that reside in mainframe, distributed, virtual
and/or hybrid cloud environments. The solution's new analytical capabilities also provide
data that can help organizations reduce data center costs and risk, and improve business
agility.
According to "IT Optimization through Predictive Capacity Management"
[http://www.ca.com/us/~/media/Files/IndustryAnalystReports/it-optimization-through-predictive-capacity-management.pdf ]
, an Enterprise Management Associates white paper commissioned
by CA Technologies, "real-time configuration, performance, and utilization data
constitutes the baseline for any accurate capacity calculation. When analyzing [this]
data, it is essential to not only take a look at peak and average activity, but also
include mid and long-term resource usage patterns. This information helps the IT
department understand how workloads are currently growing and how they might contend for
resources in the future. To ensure accuracy, capacity management software must include
algorithms to validate the quality and completeness of the imported data."
CA Capacity Management uniquely provides advanced scalability and capacity analysis
for the cross-platform enterprise to provide customers with the prescriptive insight
needed to make informed business decisions to enhance quality of service and quality of
experience. For example, the new version of the solution helps customers to:
- Model mainframe capacity and perform what-if analyses for complete,
end-to-end capacity modeling;
- Preview how applications will perform and how much they will cost when
considering hybrid cloud migration initiatives;
- Efficiently reserve capacity for upcoming projects, application roll-outs, and
users or companies being added to the environment; and
- Achieve greater data center efficiency, higher resource utilization rates, and
even more accurate predictions on application performance with expanded support for CA
Infrastructure Management
[http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Infrastructure-Management.aspx ] and
Microsoft SCOM environments.
"Virtualization and cloud computing have raised a variety of challenges for companies
in managing the performance of business services. They need to anticipate how their
applications will perform in new environments; if they have adequate infrastructure
capacity to deliver on their SLAs; when they will need to bring additional infrastructure
on-line to support demand; and whether these services are being delivered as efficiently
as possible," said Stephen Miles, VP, Service Assurance, APJ, CA Technologies. "The new
predictive analytics capabilities in CA Capacity Management provide the insight that help
IT organizations ensure the delivery of high quality, reliable services while optimizing
their investment in supporting infrastructure and freeing up investment for other
innovative projects."
Customers can use the operational intelligence of CA Capacity Management to determine
the impact on performance, capacity and response time as a result of changing workloads,
configurations and platforms. These platforms include public cloud vendors, such as
Amazon(TM), Microsoft(R), Rackspace(R), Savvis(R) and Verizon Terremark; virtualization
platforms, such as VMware(R); and hardware/OS environments, including Windows(R), Linux(R)
on either Intel(R) or AMD, and z/OS(R) on the mainframe.
"Cost analysis is very important to customers in their cloud migration initiatives and
it is very cool to be able to see utilization and cost levels when comparing cloud vendor
platforms for migration efforts in the new release of CA Capacity Management," said
Torsten Volk, Research Director, Systems Management, Enterprise Management Associates.
"The new enhancements in the latest release of CA Capacity Management are in-line with
what my current field research is producing. It is essential for organizations to take
advantage of a capacity planning and analysis tool such as CA Capacity Management,
especially when deploying cloud solutions."
For more information about how CA Capacity Management enables customers improve data
center efficiency, deliver on service levels and align IT with the business, please visit:
- Data Sheet
[http://www.ca.com/us/~/media/Files/DataSheets/final-ca-capacity-management-ds.pdf ]
- YouTube Use Case Demo: Cost Optimize Your IT Infrastructure
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjfdHJxJjsw&feature=youtu.be ]
- Customer Success: Global Food and Beverage Manufacturer
[https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/7819/77481 ]
- Customer Success: Global Communications Service Provider
[https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/7819/77779 ]
- Webcast: Capacity Management: Improving End-to-End Data Center Efficiency
[http://www.ca.com/us/lpg/Webcast-Series/Service-Assurance-webcast-series.aspx?commidy015 ]
- White Paper: Efficiency, Optimization and Predictive Reliability
[http://www.ca.com/us/~/media/Files/whitepapers/Capacity-Management-Resource-Scoring-WP.pdf ]
*Source: Enterprise Management Associates, "IT Optimization through Predictive
Capacity Management", March 2012.
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 http://www.ca.com [http://www.ca.com ].
Follow CA Technologies
- Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/cainc ]
- Social Media Page [http://www.ca.com/us/social-media ]
- Press Releases [http://www.ca.com/us/press-releases.aspx ]
Legal Notices
Copyright (c) 2013 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Intel
is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Linux(R) is the
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft is a
registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
z/OS is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States,
other countries, or both. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos
referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
Primary Media Contact: Pallavi Bordoloi, pallavi.bordoloi@ca.com, 91-9867696467
Secondary Media Contact: Nikita Nadwani, nikita.nadwani@2020msl.com, 91-9167443578
CA Technologies
CONTACT: PRN
New Predictive Analytics in CA Capacity Management Enhance Business Service Reliability
MUMBAI, August 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
CA Technologies Service Assurance Solution Increases Data Center Efficiency by
Accurately Forecasting Required Resources
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a new release of CA Capacity Management
[http://www.ca.com/us/capacity-management.aspx ] that enables enterprises and service
providers to provide more reliable business services by better predicting the optimal
resources needed to support applications that reside in mainframe, distributed, virtual
and/or hybrid cloud environments. The solution's new analytical capabilities also provide
data that can help organizations reduce data center costs and risk, and improve business
agility.
According to "IT Optimization through Predictive Capacity Management"
[http://www.ca.com/us/~/media/Files/IndustryAnalystReports/it-optimization-through-predictive-capacity-management.pdf ]
, an Enterprise Management Associates white paper commissioned
by CA Technologies, "real-time configuration, performance, and utilization data
constitutes the baseline for any accurate capacity calculation. When analyzing [this]
data, it is essential to not only take a look at peak and average activity, but also
include mid and long-term resource usage patterns. This information helps the IT
department understand how workloads are currently growing and how they might contend for
resources in the future. To ensure accuracy, capacity management software must include
algorithms to validate the quality and completeness of the imported data."
CA Capacity Management uniquely provides advanced scalability and capacity analysis
for the cross-platform enterprise to provide customers with the prescriptive insight
needed to make informed business decisions to enhance quality of service and quality of
experience. For example, the new version of the solution helps customers to:
- Model mainframe capacity and perform what-if analyses for complete,
end-to-end capacity modeling;
- Preview how applications will perform and how much they will cost when
considering hybrid cloud migration initiatives;
- Efficiently reserve capacity for upcoming projects, application roll-outs, and
users or companies being added to the environment; and
- Achieve greater data center efficiency, higher resource utilization rates, and
even more accurate predictions on application performance with expanded support for CA
Infrastructure Management
[http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Infrastructure-Management.aspx ] and
Microsoft SCOM environments.
"Virtualization and cloud computing have raised a variety of challenges for companies
in managing the performance of business services. They need to anticipate how their
applications will perform in new environments; if they have adequate infrastructure
capacity to deliver on their SLAs; when they will need to bring additional infrastructure
on-line to support demand; and whether these services are being delivered as efficiently
as possible," said Stephen Miles, VP, Service Assurance, APJ, CA Technologies. "The new
predictive analytics capabilities in CA Capacity Management provide the insight that help
IT organizations ensure the delivery of high quality, reliable services while optimizing
their investment in supporting infrastructure and freeing up investment for other
innovative projects."
Customers can use the operational intelligence of CA Capacity Management to determine
the impact on performance, capacity and response time as a result of changing workloads,
configurations and platforms. These platforms include public cloud vendors, such as
Amazon(TM), Microsoft(R), Rackspace(R), Savvis(R) and Verizon Terremark; virtualization
platforms, such as VMware(R); and hardware/OS environments, including Windows(R), Linux(R)
on either Intel(R) or AMD, and z/OS(R) on the mainframe.
"Cost analysis is very important to customers in their cloud migration initiatives and
it is very cool to be able to see utilization and cost levels when comparing cloud vendor
platforms for migration efforts in the new release of CA Capacity Management," said
Torsten Volk, Research Director, Systems Management, Enterprise Management Associates.
"The new enhancements in the latest release of CA Capacity Management are in-line with
what my current field research is producing. It is essential for organizations to take
advantage of a capacity planning and analysis tool such as CA Capacity Management,
especially when deploying cloud solutions."
For more information about how CA Capacity Management enables customers improve data
center efficiency, deliver on service levels and align IT with the business, please visit:
- Data Sheet
[http://www.ca.com/us/~/media/Files/DataSheets/final-ca-capacity-management-ds.pdf ]
- YouTube Use Case Demo: Cost Optimize Your IT Infrastructure
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjfdHJxJjsw&feature=youtu.be ]
- Customer Success: Global Food and Beverage Manufacturer
[https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/7819/77481 ]
- Customer Success: Global Communications Service Provider
[https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/7819/77779 ]
- Webcast: Capacity Management: Improving End-to-End Data Center Efficiency
[http://www.ca.com/us/lpg/Webcast-Series/Service-Assurance-webcast-series.aspx?commidy015 ]
- White Paper: Efficiency, Optimization and Predictive Reliability
[http://www.ca.com/us/~/media/Files/whitepapers/Capacity-Management-Resource-Scoring-WP.pdf ]
*Source: Enterprise Management Associates, "IT Optimization through Predictive
Capacity Management", March 2012.
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 http://www.ca.com [http://www.ca.com ].
Follow CA Technologies
- Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/cainc ]
- Social Media Page [http://www.ca.com/us/social-media ]
- Press Releases [http://www.ca.com/us/press-releases.aspx ]
Legal Notices
Copyright (c) 2013 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Intel
is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Linux(R) is the
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft is a
registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
z/OS is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States,
other countries, or both. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos
referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
Primary Media Contact: Pallavi Bordoloi, pallavi.bordoloi@ca.com, 91-9867696467
Secondary Media Contact: Nikita Nadwani, nikita.nadwani@2020msl.com, 91-9167443578
CA Technologies
CONTACT: PRN