CA's Automation Solutions To Help Accelerate From Virtualisation to Cloud

CA Technologies has announced the general availability of three key products in the CA Automation Suite. CA Configuration Automation r12, CA Process Automation r3, and CA Server Automation r12 are designed to help customers expedite their journey to a virtualised, dynamic cloud computing infrastructure and increase business agility, reduce cost and risk, and improve service delivery.

CA Configuration Automation r12 provides application and system discovery and dependency mapping, as well as configuration monitoring and remediation, across a range of applications and distributed physical and virtual servers. Key features include granular configuration tracking and auditing; more than 1000 application, service, compliance and system templates and policies; and the flexibility of using either agent or agent-less approaches.

CA Process Automation r3 is a new Business Service Automation product that helps reduce operational expenses, increase staff productivity and increase speed in delivering IT services by documenting, automating, and orchestrating a range of processes across platforms, applications, and IT groups. Key features include a graphical designer interface, visual exception handling, and over 50 CA Technologies and third-party pre-built data connectors and Quickstarts, including ones for Amazon Web Services, and VMware vSphere. These features provide a context of the tasks being automated to architects and help deliver quicker results.

CA Server Automation r12 is an Infrastructure Automation product that dynamically provisions, patches, and deploys applications and services across physical and virtual systems based on standard templates and key performance metrics. New capabilities include support for new hypervisors, including Microsoft Hyper-V and support for Cisco UCS.

“The CA Automation Suite has been well received by customers looking for a comprehensive solution to help rapidly deliver services in response to changing business needs,” said Roger Pilc, General Manager, Virtualisation and Automation, CA Technologies. “Designed with unified physical and virtualisation management in mind, the Suite provides a clear path toward helping enterprises accelerate the benefits of virtualisation and cloud computing.”