CA World 2011: CA unveils cloud consultancy tool

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While the benefits of cloud computing are now generally understood, businesses still need help deciding on which applications they should keep in-house and which ones they should consume via the new delivery model.

So claims CA Technologies, who has responded to this need by launching a dedicated tool designed to help CIOs and other decision makers plan their move to the cloud with greater precision and predictability.

CIOs are under pressure to reduce time to delivery and increase value, but don't know which applications to move to the cloud, when.

Dubbed Cloud 360, the new solution supports cloud migration decisions and provides insight into capacity and cost so that companies know in advance how such a move could impact them financially. It is based on four tenets: an application portfolio analysis; service level and performance management; predictive capacity analysis and management and service virtualisation and application behaviour simulation.

"This is IT at the speed of business... Doing things in an agile way, being faster and being better," said Andi Mann, vice president of cloud solutions at CA Technologies.

"[Cloud 360] is a predictive, analytical solution for helping you migrate to the cloud. It simplifies cloud planning decisions for the CIO... CIOs are under pressure to reduce time to delivery and increase value, but don't know which applications to move to the cloud, when."

He added: "What is the cost of making a mistake when you look at these decision factors? CA Cloud 360 gives that intelligence for the cloud."

CA also provided an update on its Cloud Commons portal announced at the last CA World event in May 2010. These include a marketplace to enable developers to market and sell cloud services and a studio for development planning, testing and building.

"It is the first real enterprise-class app store," Mann said, who added that some 3,000 members had joined Cloud Commons since its launch 18 months ago.

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