CA expands VMWare virtualization partnership

At the Cloud Computing Expo in New York City this week, CA announced certification of its CA Advanced Systems Management (ASM) software as VMWare Ready Optimized. CA also teamed with VMWare and Empowered Networks to launch the CA Partner Communicty for Business Transformation Through Virtualization Management, a new community for resellers and technology partners focusing on integration, development, product, and joint marketing support.

Designed for centralized management of virtualized and clustered server environments, ASM employs user-defined business policies for dynamic resource brokering across virtualized server resources. In a demo at the expo, CA's Larry Chorowski illustrated how systems managers can use ASM's dashboard to manage policies, provisioning, and other administrative functions. A VMWare partner since 2003, CA also supports virtualization technologies from Microsoft, Red Hat, Sun and other vendors with ASM and additional systems management tools, including CA Access Control and CA Recovery Management.