CA's Support For Amazon EC2 To Facilitate Lean IT

CA is bringing enhanced automation and management of existing internal IT infrastructures and external cloud services to the enterprise. CA’s Business-Driven Automation, Service Management, Application Performance Management, and Database Management solutions now support the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). CA also plans to extend the capabilities of several Systems Management solutions to support Amazon EC2. The flexibility to manage applications in the Amazon EC2 environment as an extension of their enterprise helps customers achieve lean IT.

The support of CA Spectrum Automation Manager, CA CMDB, CA Service Desk Manager, CA Wily Introscope, and CA InsightDatabase Performance Manager (DPM) for Amazon EC2 can enable customers to achieve lean IT by helping them to streamline processes, improve server utilisation, and optimise energy consumption patterns by provisioning capacity to Amazon EC2; reduce risk by automating rapid, policy-based responses to changing business demands, facilitating security and compliance; improve end-user response times and service performance across existing infrastructure and Amazon EC2 while triaging bottlenecks by monitoring transactions across these infrastructure components.

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Integration benefits

CA Spectrum Automation Manager provides full support of Amazon EC2 resources. The integration of the two solutions can help organisations realise the cost savings, scalability and improved service quality that cloud computing offers. By using informed automation and process automation, CA Spectrum Automation Manager allows customers to respond to fluctuations in resource demand through automatic provisioning and configuration of Amazon EC2 resources.

Further integration with CA Service Desk Manager (that includes CA CMDB) governs the change and configuration management process for provisioned Amazon EC2 resources. CA Service Desk Manager allows IT organisations to track change requests to help facilitate compliance with business best practices, ITIL process models, and regulatory rules and procedures. Adding Amazon EC2 infrastructure to the 360-degree view of individual infrastructure components lets CA Service Desk Manager perform impact analysis on planned changes to help avoid business disruptions.

The support of CA Wily Introscope, a key component of the CA Wily Application Performance Management solution, for Amazon EC2 allows enterprises to maintain the visibility of transactions and business processes through internal physical or virtual systems and their external cloud resources hosted on Amazon EC2. CA Wily Introscope helps customers ensure that applications address business and service level goals by helping them to proactively identify, triage and resolve performance problems before end users are impacted.

CA Insight DPM helps customers improve availability and performance of databases running in physical, virtual and/ or Amazon EC2 environments. Customers can now place their databases in the cloud and continue to proactively manage their performance.