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CA Technologies has extended its identity-centric security portfolio that protects and enables the hybrid enterprise, from cloud, distributed and mobile to mainframe. A new release of CA Privileged Access Manager helps control privileged user access to dynamic VMware NSX environments. Updates to CA Identity Suite help simplify identity governance for all users, and a new product, CA Data Content Discovery, helps address compliance demands by discovering and classifying mainframe data. With these new capabilities, CA is improving how businesses protect against security breaches, while helping them to more confidently implement the digital systems and applications that power the application economy. Combining the built-in security capabilities of VMware NSX with the security capabilities of CA Privileged Access Manager helps secure system access for VMware NSX administrators and helps improve operational efficiencies... Read more

CA Technologies has unveiled the results of a global study on the role of software as a business enabler. It reveals that in today’s application economy it’s clear that digital transformation has reached every aspect of business. Put simply, exploiting modern technology and communications to transform one or more key aspects of the business to achieve a state of digital readiness has now become a mainstream activity to drive ROI. In the application economy, businesses are moving at the speed of light to leapfrog their competition and accelerate the digital transformation of their organization. The study, Exploiting the Software Advantage: Lessons from Digital Disrupters, found that Digital Transformation is being driven as a coordinated strategy across a majority of organizations (55 percent), with many projects underway in multiple areas of the company, including customer services, sales and marketing, and product/service development. As a result, 45 percent of respondents have a...

CA Technologies has announced it has been named the “Overall Leader” in API management in the recent Leadership Compass report issued by KuppingerCole, an analyst firm for identity-focussed information security. CA’s API Management solutions were evaluated for the report, which evaluated existing integrated API management solutions, with a strong focus on API security. “CA’s API Management portfolio provides a complete solution for practically all API management scenarios imaginable, while ensuring a high degree of integration and one of the best implementations of API security and identity features. By combining the pioneering technology with strong global market presence, CA Technologies can definitely be recognized as the leading contender for most organizations,” Alexei Balaganski, Senior Analyst, KuppingerCole, wrote in the report... Read more

CA Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Xceedium. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close within the quarter. Acquiring Xceedium will extend CA’s security portfolio, giving customers a comprehensive solution for controlling and protecting IT administrator or other privileged user accounts from external attacks or insider mistakes and malicious misuse. “Our digital world gives organizations tremendous opportunity. It also introduces additional regulatory demands and increased risk as bad actors penetrate our networks using stolen credentials which give them the proverbial ‘keys to the kingdom,’” said Steve Firestone, Senior Vice-President & Security General Manager, CA Technologies. “The CA and Xceedium combination will reinforce our leadership position in privileged identity management and offer customers a flexible approach to managing privileged identity compliance and risk.”... Read more

CA Technologies has announced that Ayman Sayed has been named Chief Product Officer, effective August 10, 2015. Sayed will be based in Santa Clara, Calif., and report directly to Chief Executive Officer Mike Gregoire. “Ayman is an accomplished technology executive with a big vision who has built world-class software development organizations and operated globally at scale. By focussing on product direction and excellence, Ayman will help CA build a differentiated product portfolio meant to help CA’s customers solve their most difficult business problems in the Application Economy. I am pleased to welcome him on board,” said Gregoire, Chief Executive Officer. Ayman Sayed ca technologies Ayman Sayed joins CA Technologies as Chief Product OfficerSayed served as Senior Vice-President of the Network Operating Systems Technology Group at Cisco, where he oversaw 2,500 engineers and led the development of the network operating software on which nearly every Cisco networking product runs...

A global study, commissioned by CA Technologies, has revealed that Enterprise Big Data strategies are delivering key benefits to organizations, despite noted challenges in implementation. 44 percent of the Indian respondents have already implemented a Big Data project while 36 percent plan to implement one in the coming year. In addition to this, 12 percent of the Indian respondents have stated that they have implemented four Big Data projects to date. ca technologies logo e1425889028205 CA Technologies Study discloses the State of Big Data InfrastructureThe study, titled ‘The State of Big Data Infrastructure: Benchmarking Global Big Data Users to Drive Future Performance’, has revealed the top five major obstacles Indian organizations need to overcome for successful big data project implementation. Those are, insufficient existing infrastructure (33 percent), organizational complexity (25 percent), security/compliance concerns (28 percent), lack of budget/resources (25 percent), ...

As per CA Technologies’ global study, Enterprise Big Data strategies are delivering key benefits to organizations despite noted challenges in implementation. Most notably, nine out of 10 organizations are experiencing or anticipate seeing, more effective targeted marketing and selling campaigns. Additionally, 88 per cent see or anticipate increased revenue. These benefits are impressive despite 92 per cent of respondents citing obstacles to their Big Data projects. The study, titled The State of Big Data Infrastructure: Benchmarking Global Big Data Users to Drive Future Performance, revealed the top five major obstacles to overcome for successful big data project implementation. These include: insufficient existing infrastructure (32 per cent), organizational complexity (27 per cent), security/compliance concerns (26 per cent), lack of budget/resources (25 per cent), and a lack of visibility into information and processes (25 per cent). ca technologies logo e1425889028205 Big Da...

The acquisition of privately-held Grid-Tools will enable CA Technologies to expand its DevOps portfolio with an enhanced focus on quality acceleration. Time consuming, manual testing and data management have prevented enterprises from realizing the true potential of agile development and continuous delivery (CD). Grid-Tools’ solutions allow organizations to significantly accelerate their quality lifecycle by providing greater test coverage, faster test creation and repeatable test execution for software assets, while considerably reducing the time and resources required to bring products to market. ca technologies logo e1425889028205 CA Technologies Acquires Grid Tools“The global application economy requires our customers to deliver higher quality applications faster than ever before. Legacy testing tools and reliance on manual testing are not suited for the speed and number of changes necessary to achieve continuous delivery,” said Jacob Lamm, Executive Vice-President, Strategy a...

catechnologies techmahindra logo e1425969051300 CA Technologies and Tech Mahindra to secure IoTCA Technologies and Tech Mahindra have jointly agreed to develop and deploy end-to-end secured Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for enterprise customers worldwide. The agreement will leverage solutions from the CA DevOps portfolio including CA Release Automation, CA Service Virtualization, CA Mobile App Analytics and CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) with Tech Mahindra’s expertise to build and deliver mobile applications. This effort will offer enterprise customers advanced management capabilities resulting in improved operational efficiency and customer loyalty. “We’re excited to work with Tech Mahindra, a CA Premier Partner, on complementary offerings and skill sets to deliver complete Internet of Things solutions that can be deployed within existing infrastructures, and extend to new web and mobile applications,” said Alyssa Fitzpatrick, senior vice president, Global Par...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CA Technologies(NASDAQ:CA)  has announced that it has signed an agreement with  NTT Com Security  to host CA CloudMinder Identity and Access Management (IAM) Software-as-a-Service solution in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region to provide identity management, advanced authentication and single sign-on as-a-service locally. With this partnership, NTT Com Security will host CA CloudMinder via its Group Data Centers across the APJ region, helping local customers address data sovereignty policies in certain markets. Mike Denning, Sr. VP & GM, Security, CA Technologies , said, "The use of cloud, social networking tools, and mobile devices and applications have opened the enterprise and erased any security perimeter that may have existed. It has created a hybrid IT environment that puts new demands on security professionals.  Hybrid IT calls for a hybrid IAM solution , like CA CloudMinder, that addresses tod...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   For the first time  CA Technologies  has been recognized by  Omega Management Group Corp.'s NorthFace ScoreBoard Award (NFSB)  for excellence in customer service 2012. The awards presentation ceremony will be held from May 29-31 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston during the Omega's annual Symposium for Customer Operations & Relationship Exposition (SCORE) Conference. For 13 years, the NFSB awards has been recognizing industry specialists in the field of customer experience management and rewards companies that have achieved excellence in customer satisfaction and loyalty during the previous calendar year. Dayton Semerjian, General Manager, Global Customer Success and Support, CA Technologies , said, “The NFSB award validates our company-wide commitment to delighting customers. We understand that delivering a great customer experience leads to high customer loyalty. Omega’s assessment process, which is based ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CA Technologies will host user conference, CA World 2013, April 21 – 24, 2013, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. The event is expected to bring together more than 5,000 CA Technologies customers and partners to showcase its latest initiatives. The event will feature real- life customer use cases discussing successful IT strategies mapped to disruptive trends like DevOps, cloud computing and mobility for better business results. CA World 2013 will present keynote from speakers including CA Technologies CEO Mike Gregoire and Executive Vice President, Peter Griffiths discussing the latest IT trends and the need for actionable strategies to drive innovation and business growth.  The conference also will feature a keynote from Sir Richard Branson on Monday, April 22 at 5 p.m. PDT. He will discuss how technology can drive business innovation that changes the world. Andrew Wittman, Chief Marketing Offi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CA Technologies(NASDAQ)  has announced the appointment of Pratip Banerji as Director of Sales to head its BFSI (Banking & Financial Services Industry) business in India. Pratip has 23 years of experience in the IT, Telecom and System Integration domains, covering the domestic market and the European region.  In his new role, Pratip is responsible to develop the overall sales strategy to target the BFSI vertical. His charter includes the recruitment and ensuring the active participation of the global and Indian SI community to optimize sales opportunities towards successful sell through. “We are very pleased to have Pratip Banerji lead our BFSI vertical in India. Pratip is an outstanding professional with a deep understanding of our business, our industry and our customers,” said  Sunil Manglore, Vice-President, CA Technologies India. ...... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CA Technologies  has announced that it offers enhanced management and governance capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Enterprise customers rely on CA Technologies solutions - including CA Automation Suite for Clouds, CA Application Performance Management, CA Nimsoft Cloud Monitor and CA ARCserve - to manage, monitor and protect applications and services running on AWS.  “While enterprises are moving computing resources to third-party cloud service providers to give them increased flexibility, scalability and responsiveness in meeting rapidly-changing business demands, CIOs have been slower to consider cloud environments for their business-critical applications because of perceived concerns about the ability to manage or govern those resources,” said Roger Pilc, General Manager, Industries, Solutions & Alliances, CA Technologies.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CA Technologies have announced a competitive upgrade program for North American users of data backup and recovery software. From now until December 31, 2012, eligible participants who displace any competitor’s backup or disaster recovery software with an eligible CA ARCserve competitive upgrade product through a qualified North America reseller/retailer will receive a rebate of up to $700 per licence or up to $5,000 per order.    "With data volume growing, budgets tight and tolerances for data loss approaching zero, companies of all shapes and sizes are ready to make a change when it comes to how they do backup and recovery. With our new competitive upgrade program, CA Technologies is reducing the cost of making this change – allowing customers to substantially improve the performance, scalability, reliability and cost-efficiency of their data protection processes," said Steve Fairbanks, Vice-President, Data Managemen...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CA Technologies has announced CA ecoGovernance 3.0, a key offering in the CA ecoSoftware suite that is designed to help customers with corporate energy and sustainability management. It features project planning and management, scenario planning, portfolio management and supply chain management capabilities that help enable corporate energy and sustainability transformation. Terrence Clark, GM, Energy & Sustainability Solutions, CA Technologies said, "Energy and sustainability are growing corporate concerns with increasing implications for bottom-line corporate performance. CA Technologies continues to work with many of the world's leading companies to provide advanced software that uniquely supports excellence and innovation in these increasingly critical disciplines." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to a new survey of North American cloud service providers (CSPs) unveiled by CA Technologies, more than half reported that their customers are opting for the private cloud services model, while 32 percent are choosing public cloud services. Moreover, these CSPs expect to grow their businesses by 30 percent in 2012. Adam Famularo, Sr. VP, Cloud Solutions & Service Providers, CA Technologies said, "Cloud service providers are critical players in the cloud computing ecosystem and important drivers in this new cloud economy. Third party providers come from a range of backgrounds - managed services, software development, value-added resellers, even IT consulting and technology outsourcing - and they're leveraging the cloud to transform their businesses and those of their end customers." Famularo continues, "The survey results mirror many of the conversations we've had with our service provider pa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CA Technologies has announced its CA AppLogic cloud platform is now available to channel partners in the U.S. via the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, a transactional, online marketplace where solution providers and MSPs can shop, procure, provision and obtain invoices for their cloud services directly from Ingram Micro. Ingram Micro's cloud team will market, sell and support the CA AppLogic platform to its growing base of cloud-focused channel partners in the U.S under the terms of the agreement. Mike Sargent, GM, Enterprise Management, CA Technologies said, "Inclusion of the CA AppLogic platform in the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace enables even more solution providers and MSPs to realize the benefits of our turnkey platform for easily assembling and deploying applications. Cloud services and solutions powered by the CA AppLogic platform will enable Ingram Micro's channel partners and MSPs to help customers seamlessly t...