CA Announces Support for Enterprise Deployment and Management of Windows 7

ISLANDIA, N.Y., April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that it is delivering support for the deployment and management of the Microsoft® Windows® 7 operating system (OS). This new capability, provided within CA's proven IT Client Manager solution, is designed to help organizations to streamline the transition to Windows 7, increase productivity, reduce risk by providing for desktop security, maintain end-user productivity, lower ongoing support issues, and to reduce the overall cost of the deployment.

"With Microsoft having announced the end of mainstream support for Windows XP, it's time for the majority of enterprises that have not yet deployed Windows 7 to make the move," said Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA's Virtualization and Service Automation Business Unit. "CA is here to help our customers achieve a seamless transition from Windows XP to Windows 7 with a solution that is designed to automate every step of the process."

Customers are already taking advantage of CA's system migration capabilities intended to enable the management, movement and maintenance of user data, settings and preferences during PC change initiatives such as a transition to Windows 7. CA IT Client Manager has a global market presence with over 1,000 customers worldwide.

"Baker Tilly was one of the earliest adopters of Windows 7, using CA's IT Client Manager to migrate over 2,000 PCs from Windows XP to an early release candidate of Windows 7 over the course of four weeks last June," explained David Hilland, deputy IT director at Baker Tilly, an independent member of Baker Tilly International, one of the world's largest networks of accounting firms. "When Windows 7 was released this year, we used CA IT Client Manager in conjunction with CA Desktop Migration Manager, which enabled us to cut migration time down to 2.5 weeks. We are very pleased with CA IT Client Manager's comprehensive approach to the system deployment process, from planning and implementation, to process management and reporting. By using CA products, we were able to reduce deployment time in half and do so with minimal impact to the users."

"For enterprises, the benefits of Windows 7— improved security, end-user productivity and manageability — are appealing, and organizations shouldn't balk at upgrading because of worries about complexity, time and costs," said Mauricio Ulargui, director of Windows Deployment at Microsoft Corporation. "We believe CA's automated solution can reduce transition time to a matter of days, helping save both time and money while dramatically simplifying the overall deployment process."

CA addresses every step of the Windows 7 deployment process with a comprehensive solution set and methodology based on industry best practices. Using CA, customers can better automate the strategic, business-critical processes associated with the system deployment, including:

• Project planning and infrastructure assessment
• Tracking PC inventory
• Enabling application compatibility assessment
• Creation and management of images
• Deployment of supplemental applications
• Migration of the end-users data and settings
• Management, servicing and reporting on the entire automated process
• Support for technology that helps ease the transition to Windows 7, including Windows XP Mode, VMware ThinApp and Microsoft App-V

To read the Baker Tilly case study and view the video about their deployment, visit: http://www.ca.com/us/success/collateral.aspx?cid=227522.

To discover how organizations can migrate their systems to Windows 7, visit our Deployment Resource Center at: www.ca.com/windows7

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