CA Tech intros infra management capability for XenDesktop 7

BANGALORE, INDIA: CA Technologies announced the latest version of its infrastructure management capabilities, CA Infrastructure Management 2.2, providing complete support for Citrix XenDesktop 7.

Both the companies have been working on this for about eight months to bring this capability in CA Infrastructure Management for enterprises and CA Nimsoft Monitor for managed service providers (MSPs).

The CA Technologies offerings allow IT staffs to correlate Citrix XenDesktop with its underlying physical and virtual deployment infrastructure, says a release.

"Customers are always looking for ways to simplify and improve their day-to-day operations with broader visibility across systems," said Bob Schultz, Group VP and GM of the Desktop business, Citrix. "Together with CA Technologies, we are able to deliver a common solution to enterprise monitoring and manageability that spans both the underlying infrastructure and XenDesktop, leading to faster problem resolution and optimized service delivery."

"CA Technologies is committed to supporting Citrix to help ensure a successful deployment of Citrix XenDesktop 7," said Stephen Miles, vice president, Service Assurance, Asia Pacific and Japan, CA Technologies. "Citrix XenDesktop 7 unifies virtual applications and desktops and we expect that, combined with the new features and functionality in our latest version of CA Infrastructure Management, Citrix XenDesktop 7 will deliver exactly what customers are looking for to help solve their requirements in terms of mobility, simplicity and security."