Enterprise IT Management Solutions Help Manage, Govern and Secure
Microsoft’s Virtualized Infrastructures
In tandem with Microsoft’s “Get
Virtual Now” event, CA (NASDAQ: CA) today
announced its intent to provide broad-based support for Microsoft’s
virtualization technology across its Recovery
Management, Virtualization
Management, Security
and Systems
Management products. This support will help Microsoft customers to
effectively manage, govern and secure even the most complex virtualized
environments.
“Virtualization technology can both reduce
cost and improve service. In order to receive these significant
benefits, IT staff require seamless management across complex physical
and virtualized infrastructures,” said Louis
Blatt, senior vice president for Strategy and Business Development at
CA. “CA's planned support for Microsoft’s
new Virtualization products is expected to deliver this strategic
capability.”
Using familiar interfaces and common management consoles, Microsoft is
providing a set of technologies to enable an end-to-end virtualized
infrastructure. CA's solutions are being engineered to provide essential
functionality to cost-effectively maintain the business continuity,
availability, performance and security of this foundation and the
business services that it supports.
CA ARCserve
Backup, which has achieved Windows Server 2008 certification, now
supports virtual servers for file system, SQL Server and Exchange Server
servers using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, providing automated data
protection and rapid recovery management. Other CA products that plan to
support Microsoft virtualization technology in the future include:
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CA Advanced
Systems Management, which is planned to support Windows Server
2008 Hyper-V management, is a vendor and platform-neutral solution
that enables service availability by streamlining the management of
complex physical and virtual environments.
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CA Access Control
is planned to include Hyper-V support and mitigate several of the
security risks common to virtualization.
