CA Receives 'Strong Positive' Rating in Leading Analyst Firm's IT Asset Management MarketScope Report

ISLANDIA, N.Y., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that CA received a "Strong Positive" in Gartner's "MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository."* CA was one of 11 vendors evaluated in the report.

CA IT Asset Manager helps organizations maximize the value of their IT investments and avoid overspending by enabling a portfolio view of the operational, contractual and financial aspects of their hardware and software assets. With CA IT Asset Manager, companies can better manage a complete IT asset lifecycle across physical and virtual environments to control IT spending and reduce business risk.

According to the Gartner report, "as more organizations implement ITIL and build service-based IT organizations, knowing the cost and financial data behind those services is making IT Asset Management (ITAM) a 'must have,' so that organizations can understand the cost and maintenance issues related to the assets supporting IT business services. As a result, we expect market penetration for centralized ITAM repositories to increase significantly, from approximately 35% today to 70% during the next five years."

"We know that IT Asset Management is among the most important processes in an organization's overall IT management strategy and that CIOs must be fully accountable for how they manage and optimize their hardware and software investments," said Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA's Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. "As companies look to capitalize on the promise of virtualization technologies, they must have a solid understanding of their asset base to reduce license compliance risk and to enable strategic decision-support for vendor management, consolidation and sourcing opportunities. We're delighted to be rated a strong positive for IT Asset Management."

The full Gartner report "MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository, 2010" is available at http://www.ca.com/us/products/collateral.aspx?CID=235898.

For more information on CA IT Asset Manager, please visit http://www.ca.com/us/asset-management-software.aspx.

*Gartner, Inc., "MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository," by Patricia Adams, William R. Snyder, Publication Date: 29 April 2010, ID Number: G00173370

About the MarketScope

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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CA (Nasdaq: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and physical, to virtual and cloud. CA manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA's  innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 rely on CA to manage their evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA at www.ca.com. Follow CA on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cainc.

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