CA cuts wire to unite services
CA cuts wire to unite services
Computer Associates International has committed itself to making major investments into future wireless technologies, web services and open source capabilities to enable companies to manage storage, security and computing issues from a single suite.
CA's chief technology officer, Yogesh Gupta, announced this strategy at CA's customer conference in Las Vegas this week.
This new product strategy is entitled Enterprise Infrastructure Management and its vision intends to help CIOs run IT like a business.
The aim of the EIM is to integrate all solutions using a common set of services and a common database environment. Mark Barrenechea, senior vice president of product development at CA explained why this is necessary. "Customers are asking for greater integration to lower the cost of management.
"By eliminating the inefficiencies that result from existing approaches that address management disciplines separately, CA will significantly reduce enterprise technology ownership costs and provide CIOs with the visibility and control to operate their enterprise IT environment using sound business practices."
One new addition includes the expansion of CA's security product line with Wireless Site Management. This is designed to help network administrators restrict access to Wi-Fi networks. The WSM includes a security device that can plug into a PC's USB port, as well as software to administer several wireless devices and access points.
The management software has a visual capability which allows administrators to monitor zones of restricted Wi-Fi network access. Wireless encryption keys can be automatically changed by the company and these keys can be sent out to wireless devices and access points.
CA has also unveiled Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) r3.1, which it claims is the first comprehensive solution for gaining visibility into and control of individual web services. In addition, it allows companies to track applications other than web services, including those written using XML, the Corba development model, and EDI (electronic data exchange).
At the conference, CA also announced the open sourcing of CA's Ingres Enterprise Relational Database and Kernel Generalised Event Management to be involved in the development of the Linux operating system kernel. CA hopes the security software will be incorporated into the Linux development process by Christmas.
Robin Bloor, chairman and research director of Baroudi Bloor talked about the value of CA's open source announcements. "Open source has already brought immense change to the IT market with Linux, Apache, and Tomcat. CA's announcements mean that mission-critical database and content management are now also likely to be driven by open source.
"Open source tends to become more successful when it gets the backing of a major software vendor who can help move it into the enterprise."
CA hopes that by forging forward with these new products and making them compatible, then CIO's can manage all areas of IT with much greater ease and less cost.
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