 "CA Technologies To Acquire Hyperformix")
CA Technologies has announced a definitive agreement to buy Hyperformix. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“Virtualisation capacity management is among customers’ most critical IT management needs,” said Roger Pilc, general manager of CA Technologies Virtualisation and Automation customer solutions business. “An important aspect of our virtualisation and cloud strategies is to help customers overcome the ‘VM stall’ challenges they encounter as they roll out virtualisation and progress to dynamic, cloud-based data center architecture. Hyperformix strengthens our ability to help organisations advance their IT infrastructures to benefit the business.”
Capacity management enables customers to discover how physical, virtual, hardware, software, storage, and network resources are being used, and to determine what resources will be needed in the future. The technology also helps customers optimise the deployment of those resources to meet business objectives.
The acquisition of Hyperformix will help CA Technologies extend its leadership in virtualisation management, with leading virtualisation capacity management capabilities that complement its existing virtualisation, automation, and assurance solutions. Together these technologies will comprise a comprehensive, integrated solution to help customers evolve from an entry-level virtualisation project to a mature dynamic data center and private cloud operation.
Specifically, the combination of CA Technologies and Hyperformix will help organisations:
- Overcome challenges such as VM Sprawl (uncontrolled VM deployments) and VM Stall (the inability to move beyond initial virtualisation of 20-30 percent of servers);
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Ensure application performance and service level agreements; and
- Deliver cost, agility and availability benefits to the business through faster and more reliable data center consolidations, virtualisation rollouts, platform refreshes and application migrations.
CA Technologies and Hyperformix share many customers and partners. This acquisition presents new opportunities for expanding and strengthening relationships with those organisations, while opening new opportunities with ones whose goal is to advance their virtualisation operations.
“Capacity management is an important discipline for customers attempting to expand their virtualisation and private cloud deployments,” said Peter Klante, President and CEO, Hyperformix. “As a virtualisation rollout progresses through the enterprise, insight and comprehensive planning are required to realise its potential. CA Technologies and Hyperformix will deliver on that critical need.”