This is where CA\u2019s new intellectual property comes into play. As Jasmine Noel of Ptak, Noel & Associates<\/a> noted to me, \u201cThey\u2019ve picked up some gems with their acquisitions,\u201d which include:<\/p>\n What\u2019s Next? We\u2019ll Know More in May\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Although CA was happy to announce its newly found cloud ambitions, it won\u2019t be releasing any specific details until CA World<\/a> in May. There, according to O\u2019Malley, the company will introduce initial products and its cloud road map — and customers can expect to see an increase in SaaS options. After that, CA will plans to roll out new capabilities at an “aggressive,” SaaS provider-like pace, with an eye to getting ahead of the cloud management market.<\/p>\n For now, the plan is to develop many new capabilities internally. \u201cThe scale of innovation that\u2019s going on within these four walls is probably at a rate and pace and depth that we haven\u2019t had in many, many years,\u201d said O\u2019Malley, a 23-year CA veteran. However, he didn\u2019t close the door on acquiring new ones. In fact, although he declined to elaborate, O\u2019Malley admitted that he sees some \u201cinteresting companies\u201d selling capabilities that align with CA\u2019s cloud vision. This seems in line with new CEO William McCracken’s plans to spend at least $300 million <\/a>both this year and next on cloud computing and security acquisitions.<\/p>\n So who else should CA buy? Here are a few possibilities:<\/p>\n Whatever it decides, CA had better live up to its promise of aggressively advancing its cloud-computing business. The other big systems management vendors -\u2013 IBM, HP and BMC -\u2013 are not asleep at the wheel. Indeed, 2010 could bring, as Ptak, Noel & Associates\u2019 Noel put it, a race to see who can actually get companies to sign checks for cloud solutions.<\/p>\n Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d):<\/strong><\/p>\n As Cloud Computing Goes International, Whose Laws Matter?<\/a><\/p>\n Let\u2019s be honest, systems management vendor CA doesn\u2019t exactly inspire visions of innovation (heck, until 2006, it went by the not-so-intriguing Computer Associates moniker). That\u2019s about to change, however. Over the past year, CA has been buying up thought leaders across a variety of disciplines -\u2013 notably Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore \u2013- each of which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/crown-jewels.jpg?w=300&h=222\" "\\"crown")
<\/a>According to Chris O\u2019Malley, executive vice president of CA\u2019s new Cloud Products & Solutions business line<\/a>, the company\u2019s goal is to give its customers everything they need in order to analyze the available cloud solutions, figure how to integrate them into those customers’ existing environments, then make sure they perform as expected. Ultimately, O\u2019Malley believes, even mission-critical workloads will be delivered as services, and ensuring such services stay live is where CA believes its will have the competitive advantage. It wants to provide the guards watching over the enterprise crown jewels.<\/p>\n\n
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