Last week at CA World 2011, we unveiled a brand new solution - CA Cloud 360 - providing a prescriptive approach to help enterprise CIOs validate and select which applications and business services are best suited for private, public and hybrid clouds or traditional models.
CA Cloud 360 combines flagship CA Technologies products with cloud consulting services and spans four stages of the cloud services planning process:
- Application portfolio analysis: Begin the portfolio discovery and analysis with a one-day workshop, followed by an in-depth Cloud Application Discovery and Portfolio Analysis Service performed by CA Cloud Services. Rationalize the application portfolio with insight into the business value, complexity and suitability for cloud services. Featuring: CA Cloud Services and CA ClarityTM PPM On Demand
- Service level performance and management: Define and manage service level agreements (SLAs) across cloud and traditional IT environments. Featuring: CA Oblicore GuaranteeTM On Demand
- Predictive capacity analysis and management: Analyze, predict and optimize capacity burst needs across physical, virtual and hybrid infrastructure. Featuring: CA Capacity Management and Reporting Suite and CA Virtual Placement Manager
- Service virtualization and application behavior simulation: Develop and test cloud and hybrid applications in simulated production environments. Featuring: CA LISA® Suite
Maggie Holland wrote about the news for ITPro UK, quoting Andi Mann from our Cloud Solutions press conference:
"This is IT at the speed of business... Doing things in an agile way, being faster and being better. ... [Cloud 360] is a predictive, analytical solution for helping you migrate to the cloud. It simplifies cloud planning decisions for the CIO... CIOs are under pressure to reduce time to delivery and increase value, but don't know which applications to move to the cloud, when."
He added: "What is the cost of making a mistake when you look at these decision factors? CA Cloud 360 gives that intelligence for the cloud."
Andi also spoke about CA Cloud 360 and all of the cloud news we issued at CA World in a vodcast with LonghausTV available here. Or, you can read more about this news at ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet UK, and V3.co.uk.
To learn more, visit the CA Cloud 360 page.