CA SECURITY READY FOR IBM POWER SYSTEMS SOFTWARE.CA, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CA), Islandia, N.Y., has announced that several Security and Systems Management solutions are certified as Ready for IBM Power POWER is a RISC instruction set architecture designed by IBM. The name is a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC. Systems Software(TM). The solutions, which include CA Access Control and CA NSM (Network and System Management) Running and controlling the networks and computer systems in an enterprise. See network management. , are designed to enhance the security of resources, increase asset utilization, and reduce the cost of managing IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Virtual I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output Server (VIOS VIOS Virtual Input Output Server ) environments. CA's comprehensive solutions help customers increase the value of both virtualized and physical computing Physical computing, in the broadest sense, means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. While this definition is broad enough to encompass things such as smart automotive traffic control systems or environments with integrated capabilities across IT management, governance and security. "CA's Ready for IBM Power Systems Software products can help customers achieve Lean IT by maximizing the value of their IBM PowerVM(TM) virtualization technologies," said Stephen Elliot, vice president of strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit. "While many organizations are realizing benefits from using IBM PowerVM virtualization technologies, they will achieve even greater agility, quality, efficiency and security by also using CA's Security and Systems Management solutions." Virtual I/O Server is a special-purpose partition which provides virtual I/O resources to client partitions. The Virtual I/O Server owns the resources that are shared with clients. A physical adapter assigned to the VIOS partition can be shared by one or more other partitions. VIOS is designed to reduce costs by eliminating the need for dedicated network adapters, disk adapters and disk drives, and tape adapters and tape drives in each client partition. In order to become Ready for IBM Power Systems Software, IBM certifies compliance with each ISV's products that deploy agents into the VIOS partition. "CA gained Ready for IBM Power Systems Software status using IBM's POWER6 servers in an IBM PowerVM environment," said Scott Handy, vice president, IBM Power Systems. "The IBM Power Systems family of servers includes proven server consolidation platforms that help users control costs while improving overall performance, availability and energy efficiency." "We are pleased that CA NSM is certified as Ready for IBM Power Systems Software," said Alain Amans, head of Server Delivery, BNP Paribas BNP Paribas (Euronext: BNP, TYO: 8665 ) is one of the main banks in Europe and France. It was created on 23 May 2000 through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. Partner for Innovations. "Deploying CA's agents with our PowerVM virtualization technologies will allow us to make better use of our IT resources and reduce our costs." For more information about how CA management solutions maximize the business value of virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , please visit www.ca.com/virtual. About CA CA (NASDAQ:CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing enable Lean IT -- empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For more information, visit http://www.ca.com or call 508/628-8426. |
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