CA To Acquire NetQoS In $200 Mn All-Cash Transaction

CA, an independent IT management software company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held NetQoS, a provider of network performance management and service delivery solutions, for $200 million.

Ajei Gopal, executive vice president of CA’s Products and Technology Group, said, “With the addition of the NetQoS network flow monitoring, unified communications management, and response time analytic network solutions, CA will further strengthen its ability to help enterprise IT organisations and service providers deliver reliable, flexible and cost-effective IT and business services.”

“NetQoS customers and partners will benefit from CA’s development capabilities, sales force, and global customer support infrastructure,” said Joel Trammell, chief executive officer, NetQoS. “NetQoS’ solutions will strengthen CA’s ability to deliver to its customers service-centric insight into network, systems and application performance – with no visibility gaps.”

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NetQoS’ solutions will extend CA’s capabilities in each of these areas:

Network and Systems Management

The combination of CA eHealth Network Performance Manager, CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager and the NetQoS Performance Center will give CIOs and network engineers and operations managers better visibility and control of critical services in their physical and virtual network and systems environments. This will enable customers to efficiently deliver services such as unified communications.

Application Performance Management

By linking transaction views to the infrastructure, CA Wily Application Performance Management and the NetQoS Performance Center will enable a new level of quality of experience, in which the infrastructure is application-aware. This 360-degree view of applications will provide customers both an outside-in and inside-out perspective of their business and IT services, something any other single vendor may not be able to provide.

Cloud Management

CA’s acquisition of NetQoS builds on the assets CA acquired from Cassatt earlier this year, as well as CA’s organically-developed CA Spectrum Automation Manager for dynamic, performance-based automation of physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.

The all-cash transaction is expected to be slightly dilutive in fiscal 2010 on CA’s non-GAAP and GAAP earnings per share. The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of the calendar year, pending regulatory approvals.