UTRECHT, 11 augustus 2008 – CA (NASDAQ: CA) kondigt vandaag een reeks vernieuwingen aan van haar toonaangevende mainframe management software voor de z/OS®, z/VSE, en z/VM® platforms aan. De vernieuwingen zorgen ervoor dat gebruikers van de nieuwe mainframe management software meer rendement halen uit de investeringen in hun mainframe infrastructuur. De aankondiging van de verbeteringen werd gedaan tijdens de SHARE Conference and Trade Show in San Jose, Californië.
The enhancements, which are currently available or planned for short-term release, underscore CA’s ongoing commitment to meeting the evolving needs of its global customers, who are becoming increasingly dependent on their mainframes to deliver highly reliable processing-intensive IT services to internal and external constituencies. By taking advantage of CA’s enhanced solutions, IT organizations can better scale their service delivery capabilities, meet end users’ performance expectations, maintain 24x7 availability, and address compliance requirements within their existing resource constraints.
“The mainframe is undergoing a major renaissance as IT decision-makers recognize how its cost-effective and energy-efficient scalability, reliability and security make it the ideal platform to satisfy intensive business requirements,” said Mark Combs, senior vice president of CA’s Mainframe Business Unit. “Our latest enhancements demonstrate that CA continues to deliver the solutions necessary to exploit the mainframe’s full economic potential.”
The current and planned product enhancements include:
Extended z/OS Management
Simplified z/VSE Tape Management
- CA Dynam for z/VSE 7.1 www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?id=2792 simplifies tape data set processing standards, including support for IBM's new hardware-based tape encryption, automation of encrypted tape processing, and automated ejection of tapes from robotic devices at close of file.
Enhanced z/VM Directory Management
- CA VM:Secure r2.8 SP1 and CA VM:Director r2.8 SP1 www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?id=185 products us www.ca.com can be called by IBM Director and other Linux provisioning products for defining Linux guests, allocating storage to the guests, and performing other z/VM directory administration tasks.
“As the volume and complexity of our mainframe workloads keep growing, we need management tools that ensure our ability to keep pace—despite the resource constraints we face in IT,” said Rich Resnick, Manager of Systems and Operations, University Community Hospital, a not-for profit community hospital network strategically represented throughout the Tampa, Fla. Metropolitan area. “By continuing to add high-value features and functionality to its already-rich management solutions portfolio, CA has demonstrated its ongoing commitment to fulfilling this need.”
The products will be made available under CA’s flexible licensing options, including traditional MIPS pricing. They also will be available under industry-standard MSUs for z/OS and z/VSE products.
Participation at SHARECA is participating in nearly 40 sessions at SHARE on technology and best practices for managing the mainframe environment. Topics include exploiting specialty engines, achieving high availability and SOA enablement, managing Linux servers, and planning for the future of the mainframe workforce. CA will demonstrate its solutions in the SHARE Technology Exchange Expo and executives from the company’s Mainframe Business Unit will be available for in-depth discussions.
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