Virtualization News Desk
CA Products Complement Alternative Technology's Virtualization Offerings
Alternative Technology Adds CA Enterprise IT Management Software Solutions
Jul. 30, 2008 07:15 AM
Alternative Technology continues to expand its offerings by
announcing it will supply a broad range of CA distributed enterprise IT management
software. Those offerings include: application & development databases;
application performance management; database management; dynamic & virtual
systems management; governance, risk & compliance; infrastructure &
operations management; IT service & asset management; project, portfolio
& financial management; security management; and storage & information
governance.
CA products have been distributed by Arrow ECS since 1998 and, on Jan. 1, 2008,
became part of Alternative Technology’s product portfolio when Arrow’s ECS
software group was combined with Alternative Technology. Alternative
Technology’s relaunch will introduce CA to many enterprise and midtier
resellers that are supported by Alternative Technology.
"Alternative Technology and their network of North American resellers are
particularly well versed in key technologies where CA adds value, including
virtualization, infrastructure, security, and storage,” said Joe Gruca, vice
president of regional alliances at CA. "Alternative Technology has a
strong reputation for providing leading solutions and technical services, and
we look forward to working with them to drive new opportunities.”
“Arrow has been very successful with CA’s product line, having been awarded
CA’s 2007 North American Distributor of the Year,” said Tom Zorn, executive
vice president, Alternative Technology. “CA’s products complement our current
vendor offerings and the interests of our channel partners. CA resellers who
have worked with Arrow ECS in the past will now have access to Alternative
Technology’s extensive presales, postsales and implementation engineering
services.”
CA Advanced Systems Management (CA ASM) is one of many CA products that
Alternative Technology will distribute. CA recently announced CA ASM r11.2,
which integrates with VMware VirtualCenter and supports Sun’s Logical Domains.
In addition to expanded centrally managed, multivendor platform coverage, CA
ASM r11.2 provides unique insight for virtual and cluster environments through
physical-to-virtual mapping of the entire enterprise server infrastructure.
This functionality helps customers continuously assess, manage and optimize
virtual system resources to ensure service availability.
CA Partners are independent solution providers who team with CA to help
customers better manage, govern, and secure IT. By leveraging CA products,
services, and expertise, and adding their own, CA Partners empower IT
organizations to unify and simplify operations in order to optimize the value
they deliver to the business. CA’s global partner network includes resellers,
consulting firms, OEMs, technology and strategic partners.
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