I'm thrilled to report that CA Virtual Assurance r3 is now generally available to customers. The product is one of many new and enhanced CA virtualization management solutions designed for every stage of virtualization deployment. With exceptional breadth and depth of solutions for every organization and size-from "virtualization-specific" departmental deployments to the largest enterprise-wide hybrid physical, virtual, and private cloud environments-CA Technologies delivers the virtualization management capabilities needed to help reduce costs, improve efficiency, and drive business agility.
According to Thomas Bittman, distinguished analyst from Gartner, "More than half of all workloads will be running in virtual machines by 2013."
The ‘CA Virtual' Foundation Suite, which includes CA Virtual Assurance, CA Virtual Automation and CA Virtual Configuration, is designed to meet the "virtualization specific" needs of emerging and large enterprises. The suite enables customers to move through their virtualization lifecycle journey and provide confidence to roll production applications into virtual environments.
CA Virtual Assurance is a stand-alone, lightweight monitoring tool that optimizes uptime and performance of virtual-only infrastructures by delivering event and fault management, performance and capacity management analytics, and visibility into application traffic responsiveness. As a result, customers gain:
- Staffing and operational efficiencies
- Reduced downtime and support calls
- Improved quality of services delivered
- Reductions in capital expenditure
To learn more, read the product brief, watch Roger Pilc's keynote at CA World on Enabling the Journey from Virtualization to Cloud, read Infrastructure Performance Management for Virtualized Systems, a new White Paper by Bernd Harzog, lead analyst at Virtualization Practice, and listen to Raising the Cloud Bar, a discussion about the CA virtualization management portfolio between Virtual Strategy Magazine Andi Mann, vice president of Product Marketing.
Where are you on the journey from virtualization to private cloud? Remember, the most important changes aren't technological, they are cultural. So adopt a ‘start small, think big' approach to virtualized server deployments that begins with a specific project but builds towards a wider strategic plan that includes management and process changes. Let us know where you started, your experiences or where do you plan to start? Please drop me a line to share your experience and thoughts below.