CA Southern Africa has announced a new release of CA's Automation Suite for Data Centres, aimed at enabling enterprises and service providers to create complete business services in an automated, repeatable and reliable manner.
Andrea Lodolo, CTO, CA Southern Africa - IT management experts - says the solution helps enterprises and service providers to deliver complete business services with agility and efficiency.
"The ability for customers to shift focus from provisioning individual data centre components to provisioning complex multi-tier applications and their supporting infrastructure in a minimal number of steps helps improve agility and efficiency," says Lodolo.
He emphasises that businesses are demanding the delivery of new, innovative and cost-effective services at a fast pace. "In the fluid world of virtualisation and cloud computing, CA Automation Suite for Data Centres' ability to rapidly provision an entire end-to-end IT service helps IT teams accelerate the time-to-bottom-line-impact of their innovative services."
Lodolo says this solution helps enterprises to: share and provision multi-system business services across different platforms and locations with just a few clicks; simplify middleware and application provisioning in dynamic environments; model multi-tiered applications - including their underlying infrastructure; and deploy services on VMware vSphere and CA AppLogic grids as a single logical entity.
The new business service provisioning capabilities in CA Automation Suite for Data Centres align perfectly and support the company's goal of speeding new features, applications and services into production. The ability to deploy multiple components of an application, such as Microsoft SharePoint, the underlying operating system and required IT infrastructure, onto one or more systems in a single end-user step will save IT staff from having to implement one-off processes by building custom workflows and scripts.
This capability linked to the integrated self-service reservation management system, as well as the built-in support for storage and hypervisor environments, such as VMware and Citrix, will enable users to reserve and provision the full application stack and resources they need in just a few clicks.
According to a new Forrester study*: "Attempts to more effectively manage this IT complexity are leading to a more comprehensive model for automation that extends beyond simple tasks and into more complex processes and decision analytics. The study states further that: "Technology solutions that fulfil the needs of this improved model are becoming more popular", and adds: "There is an increasing need to incorporate tools that can stitch together task execution tools and enforce some discipline in process execution."
For more information about how CA Automation Suite for Data Centres enables customers to dynamically deploy and elastically scale IT services to help minimise risk and make the best possible use of their existing IT investments, please visit:
* Solution Brief
* Solution Demo
* YouTube Video
* Blog: Easier Provisioning of Customised Business Services
* @CA_Cloud
* New Business Services Mandate IT Automation, September 2012, was commissioned by CA Technologies study and conducted by Forrester Consulting.
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CA Southern Africa is SA's leading IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments - from mainframe and distributed - to virtual and cloud.
It utilises international innovation, augmented by locally based exceptional expertise, to simplify, manage and secure IT and support complex computing environments. Its solutions enable the construction of cloud platforms and are the building blocks for cloud-based IT.
Through its solutions and services, CA Southern Africa provides the means by which its customers can translate the promise of flexible IT and agile business into a reality.
CA Southern Africa is the sole representative of CA Technologies in sub-Saharan Africa and is a member of the JSE-listed EOH group of companies.
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