PRODUCT SHEET:CA Automation Suite For Hybrid Clouds

CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds helps you dynamically deploy and elastically scale IT computing resources by providing a single interface to build and manage internal private clouds that integrate access to supplemental public cloud resources.

Business valueMany IT organizations are turning to cloud computing to capitalize on time-to-market and efficiency gains:

• Private clouds consist of dynamically pooled resources that individual end users access via a self-service portal to automatically provision and deploy servers and virtual machines to support business applications.

• Public clouds offer computing power on demand to the general public and are owned and managed by Cloud service providers, such as Rackspace or Amazon.

• Hybrid clouds combine the benefits of both…the control over data, applications, and systems that private clouds offer as well as access to low cost public cloud resources for select services or burst capacity demands beyond what internal IT can develop or deploy.

CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds provides a step-wise approach to automation that helps you manage both public and private cloud operations through a single console.

Product overviewCA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds combines CA Server Automation, CA Virtual Automation, CA Process Automation and CA Service Catalog to provide capabilities that aide reliable and cost-effective operation of private cloud architectures and hybrid cloud strategies. The solution is designed to integrate public cloud resources into your IT architecture so you can build and manage private and public clouds as one cohesive system. The result is a dynamic data center that elastically scales IT services to improve business service quality and availability.

CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds

CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds is designed to improve agility and efficiency so you can:

• Support capacity-demand “bursts” cost effectively

• Manage both on premise physical and virtual machines and public cloud resources from a single interface

• Deliver IT infrastructure and applications over the network to be consumed as a service

• Provide consistent service operation, regardless of the underlying systems

• Scale capacity and performance to meet demand and invoice usage

• Share services across multiple departments or organizations to allow the same underlying systems and applications to meet the demands of a variety of interests, simultaneously and securely

• Make applications, services, and data accessible from a wide range of connected devices

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CA Automation Suite For Hybrid Clouds

CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds automates provisioning and de-provisioning of servers, applications and services, whether internal or external. By monitoring and analyzing critical application and infrastructure data, the suite dynamically responds to application performance metrics and system utilization changes with coordinated, policy-based action.

CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds supports automation of the IT process to help maximize efficiencies across IT departments and speed service delivery. It supports end-user self-service and provides catalogs of applications and services that can be accessed through online portals, enabling users to provision the resources they need to create and support their own IT services.

BenefitsCA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds helps you create a more agile and dynamic infrastructure with unified automation across the data center so that you can:

• Accelerate application deployment Leverage automation to speed the progression of applications from development to production.

• Enable your existing infrastructure to deliver cloud services Combine self-service with automated provisioning to empower users to turn-up new services on-demand.

• Build elasticity so you can dynamically allocate resources Deploy application workload to match server resources with policy-based provisioning.

• Automate the provisioning of physical, virtual and cloud resources Dynamically shift system resources to support variable, up-to-the-minute business requirements, help meet SLAs, improve utilization and data center initiative ROI.

• Orchestrate and automate routine processes that span different departments Increase the agility of IT operations by automating manual data center tasks and processes across technology silos and platforms.

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CA Automation Suite for Data Centers

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CapabilitiesCA Server Automation Designed to enable consistent deployment of applications and services across physical, virtual and public cloud environments with a comprehensive range of provisioning, patching and deployment methods.

• Quickly deploy server sandboxes with full stack provisioning of popular platforms such as LAMP and Microsoft.

• Extensive automated provisioning technologies support image mobility and portability to cover virtually every scenario, including: initial provisioning, capacity scaling, service recovery.

• Four methods of resource provisioning include; 1) operator-initiated, 2) scheduled for a set date and time, 3) routed through change management systems and executed on approval, and 4) dynamic provisioning technology triggered by embedded monitoring of key performance metrics.

• Rapid Server Imaging (RSI) offers imaging portability that allows you to capture and rapidly move system images (including OS, applications, storage and network configurations) between dissimilar platforms.

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CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds

CA Automation Suite for Hybrid Clouds helps you automate, orchestrate, integrate, and standardize many critical data center operations activities.

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CA Virtual Automation Helps realize the promise of cloud computing with user-enabling, automation to align with key business applications and services.

• Self-service reservation manager offers a Web-based system that allows users to quickly and securely provision and de-provision their own resources for application testing, development, training, production and cloud environments.

• Integrated chargeback—define rates and specify currency for calculating chargeback costs; rates and chargeback costs are displayed in Web interface and chargeback reports.

• Build and manage resource pools—define policies to manage resource pools or groups of servers, report on resource utilization and capacity.

• Dynamic provisioning—dynamically assign and reassign virtual resources as needed to support availability and utilization.

• Support public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. Provision Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), monitor performance and utilization of Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) instances and detect changes with baseline snapshot comparisons.

CA Process Automation Designed to automate, integrate and orchestrate operational processes across platforms, applications and IT groups to improve business service.

• Graphical visualization of IT processes helps document and then automate manual or semi-automated processes into automated routines.

• Closed loop automation is designed to provide remediation activity (based on performance and utilization metrics) which delivers the prescribed result.

• Extensible architecture allows you to tailor the solution to your precise IT automation needs and pre-built data connectors enable integration across CA Technologies and third-party IT management applications.

CA Service Catalog Helps IT to communicate value, set expectations, improve customer relationships, reduce costs, gain efficiencies, and making better decisions with financial insight.

• Create a single point of entry into IT and business services to set expectations, increase user satisfaction, and enable IT to define their value to the organization.

• Automate service requests to reduce manual labor and costs, enable parallel tasks, and speed the provisioning of physical, virtual, and cloud-based services.

• Provide cost transparency, align to your budgets and fiscal periods, understand your service usage in financial terms, and uncover the true cost of service operations with powerful financial management capabilities.

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