CA Technologies Modernizes Mainframe Management with Next Wave of CA Mainframe Chorus Deliverables

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA WORLD - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced two new, integrated roles and a new release of its revolutionary CA Mainframe Chorus unified management workspace, greatly extending its capabilities to modernize mainframe administration.

In addition to the DB2 for z/OS management role included with the first release of CA Mainframe Chorus, the new release extends its innovative management paradigm with two new roles — CA Mainframe Chorus for Security and Compliance Management and CA Mainframe Chorus for Storage Management.  All three roles access a common management workspace with CA Mainframe Chorus, so staff can manage more than one administrative area.  

"CA Mainframe Chorus is a ground-breaking innovation from CA Technologies and the cornerstone for our Next-Generation Mainframe Management strategy, which helps customers reduce costs, simplify management and increase IT agility," said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe Customer Solutions Unit, CA Technologies. "The advances in the CA Mainframe Chorus platform and expansion of its management roles help enable the new hybrid IT staff required to run the next generation hybrid mainframe."

CA Mainframe Chorus for Security and Compliance Management

The new role helps security specialists simplify and streamline security and compliance administration to:

• Extend CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret's Compliance Information Analysis database to help provide managers with accurate security information in real-time.
• Advance reporting capabilities that help administrators understand security policies and the context around security events, so they can more quickly create customized reports. 
• Enhance event handling for z/OS to assist organizations in addressing and continuously maintaining compliance with government regulations and industry standards.

CA Mainframe Chorus for Storage Management

The new role helps storage administrators save time and money by providing:

• Web browser capabilities that help to reduce management complexity, and accelerate storage management productivity and efficiency.
• The flexibility to easily set thresholds to automate monitoring of storage levels and more quickly identify, diagnose and resolve problems before they impact storage availability and performance.
• An interactive graphical topology that provides timely, detailed qualitative analysis to help storage managers more easily and quickly view and accurately report on the entire storage infrastructure.
• Historical trend analysis that automates the tracking and graphing of comparative storage volume data to simplify diagnosis and resolution of performance issues.

CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management

The second release of the DB2 DBA role includes enhancements that are designed to further simplify and streamline management, and extend flexibility and control in managing the DB2 environment.

Supporting Comments

"We need to support business growth and stay competitive, but budget cuts and staffing challenges make it difficult to manage our growing CPU power and increasing IT complexity," said Arie Berger, manager, Operating Systems and Information Security for El Al. "CA Mainframe Chorus, with its innovative new technology and modern management workspace, will help us simplify management, increase the agility and productivity of our IT operations and attract new mainframe talent."

"We are looking to increase our efficiency and effectiveness in managing and securing our mainframe and DB2 environments so that we can continue to deliver quality service to over one million customers," said Randy Senn, CIO, SCANA Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy-based holding company. "SCANA is participating in the Security beta and is excited about what the addition of the Security and Compliance role can deliver for our enterprise."

All of the new CA Mainframe Chorus releases and roles will be available this month.

Today's announcement supports customers as they transition from simply managing IT to delivering business services. CA Technologies applies a unique value roadmap to each customer's business goals to deliver Business Service Innovation: new levels of speed, innovation, performance and cost/risk efficiencies.

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