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CA Technologies uses advanced analytics to achieve peak performance of SD-WANs

New support features manage SD-WAN cloud connections with comprehensive performance monitoring.


Johannesburg, 23 May 2017

CA Southern Africa announces the release of CA Technologies, CA Performance Management. The solution includes monitoring support for dynamic software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) architectures built on Cisco IWAN and Viptela. Advanced analytics provide for optimal performance of cloud workloads and correlate SD-WAN performance to application performance.

"CA addresses the hottest software-defined networking technology today. Nearly 88% of enterprises either currently deploy SD-WAN today or plan to do so within the next 12 months," say, Shamus McGillicuddy, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). "With the integration of fault, device, flow, and packet analysis, CA Technologies delivers a comprehensive approach to unified monitoring and analytics of SD-WAN and legacy WAN technologies."

In recent research, EMA recommends that network operations adopt a comprehensive and unified approach to managing traditional WAN and SD-WAN environments that offers extended visibility into both and enables end-to-end network operations.

CA Performance Management, a big data solution for managing traditional and software-defined networks, turns inventory, topology, network fault, device metrics, flow, and packet analysis into actionable intelligence for network operations teams. All levels of help desk staff and NOC engineers can easily troubleshoot SD-WAN infrastructures to minimise service disruptions with a dashboard that incorporates health indicators and intuitive visualisations.

"Vosko is excited to be working with CA to deploy managed services of software defined networks," said Rob van der Weijden, manager Managed Services, Vosko. "CA Performance Management integrated with best of breed fault management and innovative relationship-based SDN assurance is enabling Vosko to service customers in Netherlands who need help managing SDN networks."

"By partnering with leading SD-WAN vendors such as Cisco, CloudGenix, Versa and Viptela, we are advancing our modern network monitoring solutions and using analytics to provide reliable and incredible network insights for application experiences," says Andrea Lodolo, Chief Technical Officer, CA Southern Africa.

CA now offers the most comprehensive network performance monitoring and analytics capabilities, enabling organisations to realise the true benefits of their SD-WAN investments and cover all strategic network locations (enterprise, service provider) along the pathway to the cloud. These enhancements are in addition to existing support for software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualisation (NFV) and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).

Resources:
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Successful SD-WAN Monitoring with CA Performance Management White Paper
* The Skinny on SD-WAN
* Blog: SD-WAN: Just the ticket for greater flexibility and lowered costs

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Deirdre Blain
Blain Communications
(+27) 83 230 5522
blain@iafrica.com
Heidi Ziegelmeier
CA Southern Africa
(+27) 11 417 8594
Heidi.Ziegelmeier@CAafrica.co.za