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| CA and Opalis Software Announce an OEM Partnership CA and Opalis Software have announced an OEM partnership that will enhance CA's Data Center Automation offerings with the IT process automation technology from Opalis. The joint technology solutions will further enable enterprises to drive down IT operational costs and increase productivity, while enforcing compliant best practices aimed at improving performance and availability of critical business services. Integrations already exist between Opalis' software and a number of CA's products. Under this partnership agreement CA will broaden the suite of IT process automation solutions that let customers design, build, and orchestrate workflows for managing complexity and improving service quality. Data Center Automation (DCA) solutions from CA enable IT to leverage business policies and best practices to implement intelligent, policy-driven automation for change, configuration and provisioning processes, as well as for automation of complex, high-volume workloads. These capabilities reduce complexity and risk while helping IT provide adaptive, dynamic and optimised services to the business. This allows customers to anticipate demand fluctuations and adjust the infrastructure before service is impacted. CA DCA solutions also help optimise utilisation of physical and virtual assets, supporting "Green IT" initiatives and improving staff efficiency so that resources can focus on proactive management and strategic business objectives. Opalis delivers unique solutions that enable IT process automation inside and outside the data center across heterogeneous IT ecosystems. The Opalis solutions are easily implemented and quickly return value. Unlike other competitive offerings, Opalis employs a scalable 'enterprise services' architecture to automate processes and workflows for critical IT initiatives, such as virtualisation, provisioning, ITIL compliant processes, disaster recovery, consolidation, and security. In addition to deep integration with CA, Opalis is the leader in seamless integration with other systems management tool vendors including EMC, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, BladeLogic, BMC Software, and HP Software, thereby providing an integration bridge that allows IT management to orchestrate intelligent automation throughout a data centre regardless of the complexity and silos in their IT management infrastructure. With Opalis, enterprises can quickly realise the benefits of IT process automation, driving down IT operational costs and increasing productivity, while enforcing compliant best practices aimed at improving performance and availability of critical business applications. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |