Johannesburg, 26 Apr 2013
CA Southern Africa has announced that CA Technologies has unveiled a strategic direction to help mainframe customers embrace the future dynamic data centre and move closer to the ideal state of unbounded business enablement at zero cost.
This announcement was made at CA World 2013 - which concluded this week in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The company has made significant new investments in mainframe solutions to provide customers with the tools to manage data centres with utmost reliability, security and speed.
"Information technology is in the midst of a tremendous change cycle," said Michael Madden, general manager, Mainframe. "We have responded with a strategy that serves the evolving requirements of the data centre, including cost-effectiveness, data security and speed, and a fantastic end-to-end customer experience."
Once bound by on-premises facilities, data centres today are a dynamic mix of on-premises and virtual computing power. CA Technologies is substantially evolving its mainframe management solutions to make such dynamic data centres possible and aligned to meet business needs.
The CA Technologies Mainframe strategy will help customers by:
* Sustaining investments in foundational technologies that are critical to the evolution of data centres and the modern mainframe;
* Collaborating closely with customers on product design to help CA Technologies develop products that meet customers' most critical IT needs; and
* Streamlining for savings and return on investment through the company's Mainframe Software Rationalisation Program (MSRP), which assesses customers' portfolio needs and can help them to realise estimated savings of up to $1.4 million* a year.
CA Technologies is making great strides in delivering a mainframe portfolio that helps customers transition to the dynamic data centre - one that delivers business services seamlessly across mainframe, distributed systems and the cloud.
* Extensive Mainframe Portfolio: includes integrated products designed to cut the total cost of ownership for customers, and deliver lower licensing costs, simple installation processes and easy upgrades.
* CA Mainframe Chorus: focuses on a unique user experience rather than on applications for a robust mainframe management platform that lets users create dashboards to manage DB2, workload automation and other functions all from one place.
* CA Workload Automation: integrates the user experience across the hybrid computing environment of mainframe, distributed and cloud. The solution includes several new capabilities that help customers reduce complexity and proactively manage and anticipate the needs of the dynamic data centre.
* CA Technologies World-Class Support: the company recently earned the NorthFace Score Board Award (NFSB) for customer service excellence, demonstrating its dedicated focus on customers. CA Communities, CA Technologies' online user community, provides customers with direct access to its more than 38 000 company experts, partners and users.
The mainframe is a workhorse in the back-end of much of today's critical business, and CA is busy enabling other capabilities in its portfolio to work with mainframe solutions, to provide a seamless and successful customer experience across distributed, cloud and mobile operations.
"Our unique advantage is that we can manage virtual data centres from soup to nuts," said Madden. "We can tie everything together and manage it holistically when we bring the full CA Technologies portfolio to bear."
For more information, see these additional resources:
* Mainframe home page
* Mainframe Voice Blog
* CA Mainframe Twitter
* Annual savings estimation is derived from analyses of CA Technologies' customer contracts. This value is not a guarantee of achievable results and will vary depending on current infrastructure, people and processes, as well as the appropriate, effective implementation, adoption and use of the CA Technologies solution.
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