CA, one of the world’s largest independent software companies, and Opalis Software Inc., a market leader in IT process automation software, have announced an OEM partnership that will enhance CA’s Data Center Automation offerings with the award-winning IT process automation technology from Opalis.
The joint technology solutions will further enable enterprises to drive down IT operational costs and increase productivity, while enforcing compliant best practices aimed at improving performance and availability of critical business services.
“CA continues to deliver on its promise to provide IT management for all facets of the data center,” said Will Bauman, senior vice president of workload automation at CA. “Enhancing our Data Center Automation solutions with the Opalis IT process automation technology was a logical choice for CA. Combining our CA workload automation solution with the innovative and customer-proven Opalis technology will consolidate and streamline the process and workflows our customers must coordinate to deliver their production workloads.”
Integrations already exist between Opalis’ software and a number of CA’s leading products. Under this partnership agreement CA will broaden the suite of IT process automation solutions that let customers design, build, and orchestrate workflows for managing complexity and improving service quality.
“We are pleased to have been selected by CA, one of the largest and most successful IT management software providers in the world, to extend their automation capabilities and help CA’s global customers achieve greater IT efficiency and business agility. With more customers, partners, and experience than any other vendor in the market, this partnership further validates Opalis’ position as the leader in IT process automation,” said Todd DeLaughter, president and CEO for Opalis.
“We recently selected CA for our IT management solutions, and because we view process automation as strategic to our business, we are very pleased about their new relationship with Opalis. Our end-to-end automation approach will benefit from continued innovation that integrates well with our existing tools, thereby protecting our investments and helping us to deliver quality IT services to our business,” said Mark Showers, CIO for Monsanto Corporation.
“Automating data center management across lifecycles has become vital for IT organizations seeking to deliver cost-efficiency, quality, and compliance in the most complex environments,” said Andi Mann, research director for Enterprise Management Associates. “In research and client discussions, EMA consistently sees the exceptional value that CA and Opalis provide to their customers. These combined offerings will allow even more enterprises to realize the benefits of IT process automation.”
Data Center Automation (DCA) solutions from CA enable IT to leverage business policies and best practices to implement intelligent, policy-driven automation for change, configuration and provisioning processes, as well as for automation of complex, high-volume workloads.
These capabilities reduce complexity and risk while helping IT provide adaptive, dynamic and optimized services to the business. This allows customers to anticipate demand fluctuations and adjust the infrastructure before service is impacted. CA DCA solutions also help optimize utilization of physical and virtual assets, supporting “Green IT” initiatives and improving staff efficiency so that resources can focus on proactive management and strategic business objectives.
Opalis delivers unique solutions that enable IT process automation inside and outside the data center across heterogeneous IT ecosystems. The Opalis solutions are easily implemented and quickly return value. Unlike other competitive offerings, Opalis employs a scalable ‘enterprise services’ architecture to automate processes and workflows for critical IT initiatives, such as virtualization, provisioning, ITIL compliant processes, disaster recovery, consolidation, and security.
In addition to deep integration with CA, Opalis is the leader in seamless integration with other systems management tool vendors including EMC, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, BladeLogic, BMC Software, and HP Software, thereby providing an integration bridge that allows IT management to orchestrate intelligent automation throughout a data center regardless of the complexity and silos in their IT management infrastructure.
With Opalis, enterprises can quickly realize the benefits of IT process automation, driving down IT operational costs and increasing productivity, while enforcing compliant best practices aimed at improving performance and availability of critical business applications.
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world’s largest independent software companies, provides software solutions to unify and simplify™ IT management. With CA’s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage. Founded in 1976, CA serves customers in virtually every country in the world.
Opalis Software Inc., founded in 1999 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is the IT process automation market leader with some of the largest enterprise customers in the world, including Woolworth’s, VMware, Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, British Telecom, Bank of New York, and Accenture. Opalis provides a comprehensive IT process automation solution to orchestrate, integrate, and automate IT processes for large and medium enterprises focused on improving service delivery and reducing costs.
FM Engineering says
Data Center Automation provides a perfect solution for achieving service levels of operational efficiency. The importance and value of automating standard IT operations can be significant in data centers of any size. The goal is to significantly lower IT operational expenses while at the same time improving the end-user experience.