CA and VMware: Working Together to Maximize Business Value of Your IT Investments

PARTNERSHIP BRIEF: MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL IT ENVIRONMENTS
CA and VMware: Working Together
to Maximize Business Value of Your
IT InvestmentsTable of Contents
Executive Summary
SECTION 1: CHALLENGE 2Maximizing IT Business Value: How CanVendors Help?
SECTION 2: OPPORTUNITY 2The VMware-CA Alliance: A PowerfulResponse to Difficult Challenges
SECTION 3: BENEFITS 5Lower Costs and Greater Flexibility fromVMware; Mature and Proven Solutions fromCA; Integrated and Supported by Both
SECTION 4: CONCLUSIONS 6Managing Virtualized IT Systems for BetterBusiness ResultsOvercoming Increased Complexity and Diversitywith the VMware-CA SolutionPart of an Enterprise-wide Vision
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Challenge
Your organization's reliance on its IT infrastructure - from applications and services tounderlying communications, processing and storage resources - is a business constant.But that infrastructure is continually evolving, as are the business needs and goals it supports.You need cost-effective and flexible solutions that deliver enhanced business continuity,disaster recovery and airtight security for both physical and virtual environments. Solutionsthat combine innovative technologies with clear and sustained business benefits andknowledgeable, enterprise-class support. And it's apparent that no one vendor can do it all.
Opportunity
VMware and CA have responded to your requirements by forging a solid partnershipfocused on your enterprise's needs. VMware and CA have collaborated to developintegrated solutions that enable your organization to effectively deploy, optimize, manageand secure physical and virtual systems across the enterprise. Most recently, thecompanies have jointly tested and validated VMware Infrastructure with CA RecoveryManagement and Dynamic & Virtual Systems Management. The combined solutions offeryou comprehensive management, optimization and protection of physical and virtualservers, as well as the business-critical applications and information they host.
Benefits
The comprehensive range of infrastructure deployment and management offeringsreflects the breadth and depth of the VMware-CA partnership. The powerful combinationof technology and management functions brings you rapid-time-to-value solutions thatoptimize the utility of your assets and improve your ROI while minimizing your businessand IT risks. In addition, the two companies have closely aligned sales and support channelsto clarify product objectives and support services for our joint offerings. These effortstranslate directly into solutions that enhance the value organizations like yours seek frominitiatives such as infrastructure virtualization. To achieve a single coordinated view of yourIT environment, the VMware-CA solution integrates seamlessly with CA's Enterprise ITManagement (EITM) framework, which helps unify and simplify IT management acrossyour entire enterprise.
PARTNERSHIP BRIEF: MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL IT ENVIRONMENTS 1SECTION 1: CHALLENGE Maximizing IT Business Value: How Can Vendors Help?Multiple factors are buffeting your enterprise IT infrastructure and putting increasing pressureon those who manage them. Among these are ever-increasing competition, continuouslyevolving requirements for compliance with regulations and industry standards and the constantdrumbeat of demand for greater security of IT resources and intellectual property (IP). Inaddition, increasing use of the Internet and the Web, and of technologies such as service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and software as a service (SaaS), make infrastructures moreflexible and dynamic - and more challenging for you to manage.
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