CA establishes partner community for channel partenrs

Mumbai: CA announced the formation of a global virtualization management partner community comprised of resellers, cloud, and technology partners. The CA partner community for business transformation through virtualization management is designed to enable partners to improve the efficiency, quality, and agility of their customers' virtualized environments. Foundation members include Empowered Networks and VMware.

Through the community, CA will work with strategic reseller and technology partners to deliver virtualization management solutions and business best practices that enable both enterprises and service providers to transform their physical and virtual infrastructure from a cost center into an enabler of innovation and business growth. CA will also work closely with cloud computing partners to meet the critical needs of their customers, using virtualization management as a business transformation driver.

The CA partner community for business transformation through virtualization management empowers CA's partners to address the pre-production and production scale challenges their customers face in deploying virtualization infrastructure, applications and services. Through the community, CA will work with partners to deliver strategic, high-value services that will streamline the expansion and efficiency of customers' production environments in critical areas such as capacity planning and modeling, configuration management (server, application), data center consolidation, application staging, green IT planning, ITIL process creation and standardization, next-generation data center (NGDC) design, performance monitoring and maintenance, policy creation and mapping, run-book automation, SOA architecture build-out, and virtualization management best practices.

“As virtualization empowers IT to become a key catalyst of business growth and profitability, the network, systems database, and application management considerations that companies need to take into account are more strategic and business-focused than ever before,” said Roger Pilc, Corporate Senior VP and GM of CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. “We look forward to working with our partners to deliver IT and business transformation best practices that enable customers to fully leverage their virtual infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively respond to changing market conditions.”

“VMware and CA enjoy a productive relationship that helps our customers take advantage of virtualization to improve datacenter operations and create efficient and flexible cloud environments,” said Shekar Ayyar, VP-Infrastructure Alliances, VMware. “CA's new partner community that focuses on virtualization management will help bring solutions partners closer together. We look forward to continuing our work with CA so that our mutual customers will benefit from the technical expertise of our partners in designing, deploying, managing, and maintaining virtualized environments.”

There is no fee to join the CA partner community for business transformation through virtualization management.