CA and Its Wall Street Customers Join Forces to Improve Performance and Availability of IT Services.Workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands. Automation Advisory Committee Established to Define Best Practices Aimed at Lowering Costs and Meeting Compliance Requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA) today announced the formation of an advisory committee to help its Wall Street customers improve the performance and availability of key business services, lower the cost of delivering services and meet compliance requirements using workload automation technology. The committee, selected from CA's major financial market customers, will define best practices in the implementation of workload automation technology, including CA AutoSys Workload Automation. Workload automation technology is used by financial institutions to process trades worth billions of dollars every day. If these workloads fail or experience disruptions, companies can face significant financial losses and regulatory fines. Such problems can also potentially impact the U.S. economy and worldwide markets. "Workload automation is instrumental in helping top Wall Street companies manage costs and perform their core business functions at peak efficiency," said Mark Bubar, vice president of Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. at CA. "By establishing an advisory council with these influential firms, CA is helping the industry distill dis·till v. 1. To subject a substance to distillation. 2. To separate a distillate by distillation. 3. To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify a substance by distillation. the best practices necessary to achieve IT excellence--while also ensuring that our next generation of solutions meets our customers' real-world challenges." As back-end processing workloads continue to escalate es·ca·late v. es·ca·lat·ed, es·ca·lat·ing, es·ca·lates v.tr. To increase, enlarge, or intensify: escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf. v.intr. , limited budgets, rising utility costs, insufficient physical space, and other operational challenges make it difficult to accommodate those workloads. IT organizations are responding by adopting new workload automation practices and technologies--such as policy-based re-allocation of virtual server resources--that increase efficiency and respond to shifts in demand. Best practices, combined with sophisticated technology such as CA AutoSys Workload Automation, can help these organizations optimize optimize - optimisation the delivery of critical workload processes across diverse enterprise infrastructures. "The current economic situation is putting Wall Street's IT departments under increased scrutiny to reduce expenses while optimizing performance," said Pavel Vaynshtok, independent consultant to Wall Street firms and chairman of the Wall Street AutoSys Advisory Committee. "By working as a team to define best practices and using our combined knowledge to influence product development, we are helping to ensure that Wall Street and the economy are running smoothly." CA will host its first Workload Automation Technical Summit January 27-30 in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , LA. For more information, please visit http://ca.com/us/content/campaign.aspx?cid=156395. About CA CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest independent software companies, provides software solutions to unify 1. (database, product) Unify - A relational database produced by Unify Corporation. 2. (algorithm) unify - To perform unification. and simplify[TM] IT management. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM EITM Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models EITM Enterprise Information Technology Management EITM Elliot in the Morning (radio show) EITM Environmental Information Technology Management EITM Enterprise It Management ) 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. For more information, please visit www.ca.com. Copyright (c) 2008 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. |
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