CA equips management tools for cloud oversight

"The amount of choice out there [with cloud offerings] is overwhelming. We're trying to provide a way to help with that," said Jay Fry, CA vice president of marketing for cloud computing. This set of releases "will help enterprises and service providers come to conclusions about what services are right for them," he said.

CA Business Service Insight, CA Automation Suite for Data Centers and AppLogic were among the programs CA updated. The company has as well introduced a number of new cloud management applications. All the programs have been released within the last 30 days.

Version 8.0 of CA Business Service Insight, a capacity planning tool, now allows users to compare service levels of public cloud offerings against the service levels of in-house implementations. Version 12.5 of the CA Automation Suite for Data Centers, a set of software for managing operations of enterprise applications, now allows administrators to shift virtualized workloads from an internal platform to public cloud services such offered by Amazon, Rackspace and Terremark.

Other programs updated include CA Virtual Assurance for Infrastructure Managers, CA NetQoS Unified Communications Monitor, CA Identity Manager, CA Role and Compliance Manager, CA Data Manager and CA Automation Suite for Cisco UCS.

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