CA Automation Suite

The CA Technologies company grouped the software products for control automation by physical, virtual and cloud IT resources in a packet under the name CA Automation Suite. It includes the new and upgraded products. It is possible to purchase them separately to expand functions of the environment as required. CA also offers three new in advance integrated a set.^[1]

New products — CA Process Automation, the automation system of the processes covering platforms, applications and the user groups; and CA Configuration Automation, the tools executing recognition of systems, applications and interdependence between them.

The Workload Automation, Virtual Automation, Server Automation and Client Automation components are updated. The first is represented by the scheduler of tasks in whom there was an opportunity to make the schedule of start of workloads in public clouds like Amazon EC2. The second provides automation of resource allocation of virtual servers; among new features — support of a hypervisor of Hyper-V and the Cisco Unified Computing System platform. The third product automates control of client devices. Its innovations became an ability to manage the images created on VMware Linked Clone technologies, and the advanced mechanism of the business reporting.

In advance integrated sets consist of tools for certain tasks. For example, CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds provides resource allocation of servers and virtual machines in private and public clouds. The set of Automation Suite for Data Centers is expected infrastructure management with physical and virtual components which is prepared for use of cloud computing. Automation Suite for Cisco UCS includes the same set of components, as a set for DPC, plus tools for migration of servers on the Cisco UCS platform and managements of their resources.

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