CA Tech, VCE tie up for cloud adoption

MUMBAI, INDIA: CA Technologies and VCE, a virtual computing environment company, on Monday announced an alliance to deliver integrated private cloud solutions for VCE's Vblock Infrastructure Platforms that help customers increase agility, reduce risk and lower costs.

Initially, the alliance will focus on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment and management, and migration of Tier 1, integral enterprise applications to the Vblock platform, said a press release.

“CA Technologies is proud to offer Vblock-certified solutions. We expect our alliance with VCE to be an important part of our continued focus to help customers use and provide cloud-based services that transform IT for agility, efficiency and business innovation,”said Dave Hansen, general manager, Enterprise Solutions and Cloud Management, CA Technologies.

VCE and CA Technologies plan to certify a broad portfolio of CA Technologies service management, service assurance, service automation, virtualization management, capacity management, and security solutions for use on and with Vblock platforms.

CA Technologies-ready Vblock platforms are planned to include orchestration connectors for the company's solutions, such as CA Service Catalog, CA Process Automation and CA Spectrum Service Assurance.

This framework is expected to allow customers to leverage ready-to-use, integrated solutions to help make it easier to provision, orchestrate, manage and secure application workloads and services on a Vblock architecture.

“Deploying the Vblock Platform with CA Technologies Vblock Ready solutions integrated with Vblock Unified Infrastructure Manager will help customers accelerate their ability to realize the benefits of an agile converged infrastructure, improving application performance while dramatically improving IT operational efficiency," said Phil Harris, vice president, Platform Engineering and Strategy, VCE.