Wednesday, August 31, 2011

CA Signs Licensing/ Distribution Pact with Linux Firm


CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) has announced an agreement with INNOVATION Data Processing, a leading Linux storage management company, to include the company's UPSTREAM for Linux on Z and UPSTREAM for z/OS UNIX in its Linux on System z management offering.


INNOVATION Data Processing's products provide comprehensive, easy-to-use data protection for Linux on System z and z/OS UNIX environments, helping storage administrators to save time in managing the backup, recovery and restoration of critical business information."Data protection is a key area in which our customers need Linux management tools," said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies. "We are offering powerful storage management solutions from INNOVATION to help them simplify operations and fully leverage the cost savings potential of Linux."CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments a from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies' innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems.About INNOVATION Data ProcessingUPSTREAM for z/OS UNIX allows z/OS storage managers to use their mainframe expertise to centrally manage storage in hybrid mainframe and distributed environments. It provides ad hoc and automated, unattended backup/restore, file transfer and storage management operations, allowing IT to leverage the strengths of z/OS UNIX to manage Web serving, WebSphere, Lotus Domino and other e-business applications.UPSTREAM for Linux on Z and UPSTREAM for z/OS UNIX will be available from CA Technologies in the fall.About CA TechnologiesUPSTREAM also helps lower total cost of ownership by leveraging existing z/OS systems and resources for Linux storage management. With a choice of traditional mainframe and GUI browser interfaces, UPSTREAM for Linux on Z helps save time by greatly simplifying and automating data protection, and providing storage administrators with a high degree of flexibility and reliability in backup/restore and storage management.INNOVATION Data Processing is a single source for non-disruptive business continuance, enterprise wide distributed data protection, high performance storage resource management and privacy information protection for z/OS and Linux on System z, as well as for AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows distributed storage; INNOVATION partners with CA, IBM, EMC, Hitachi, ORACLE and other enterprise storage technology vendors, to deliver complementary mainframe and open system solutions that are the choice of enterprise customers around the globe for their business resiliency concerns, especially as they find themselves facing the need to accomplish more in the same or less amount of time, at lesser cost, using fewer resources. For additional information, visit INNOVATION Data Processing at http://www.innovationdp.com.For more information, visit http://www.ca.com or call 631/342-2463

For more information, visit http://www.ca.com or call 631/342-2463




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