CA Announces Support for Amazon Elastic

Compute Cloud (EC2):

On-Premise

Abstract

In August 2009, CA announced support for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in its newly-enhanced

Business Driven Automation, Service Management, Application Performance Management, and Database

Management solutions. These solution families are now capable of managing both stand-alone EC2-based

services and integrated services spanning both on-premise and EC2 environments.

ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) analysts see this as a significant move for CA

towards addressing the burgeoning Cloud marketplace. This will be particularly true if and when CA builds

out capabilities for additional Cloud-based services. For Amazon, EMA sees this as a beneficial partnership

that can help EC2 become a more viable option as an enterprise-ready platform.

Integrated Cloud,

Management

According to Terry Wise,

director of Business

Development for Amazon

Web Services, the CA

partnership will enable

Amazon to “help our mutual

customers take advantage

of Amazon EC2 as a simple

extension of their enterprise

IT infrastructure.”

CA Announces Support for Amazon EC2

In August 2009, CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) announced that multiple

products within the CA portfolio have been enhanced to support the

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. EC2 is “infrastructure in the cloud,”

giving IT organizations additional options for on-demand capacity and

the ability to scale computing resources up or down as requirements

vary.

According to Terry Wise, director of Business Development for

Amazon Web Services, the CA partnership will enable Amazon to “help

our mutual customers take advantage of Amazon EC2 as a simple

extension of their enterprise IT infrastructure.” The CA toolset will

enable customers to manage the delivery of IT services holistically and

benefits Amazon customers with much-needed visibility to Cloud-based

services.

Context

The promise of Cloud Computing brings with it potential to transform the way in which enterprise business

services are provisioned and deployed. For critical services, today’s rule is to over-provision. As a result,

distributed servers in some data centers are still utilized at 10% or less of potential computing power.

Companies have turned to virtualization to solve this problem, as it can help boost per-server utilization by

stacking multiple applications on a single server.

The idea is not revolutionary. Mainframe partitioning has been used in the same way for years. What is

different is that the combination of server sprawl and virtualization has created layer upon layer of technology

complexity, which is difficult (and expensive) to manage. This complexity is driving high IT administration,

support, and facilities costs.

Cloud computing offers an attractive alternative. In lieu of over-provisioning, one use case is to supplement

on-premise infrastructure with Cloud services on an “as needed” basis. In this scenario, on-premise

infrastructure is right-sized to support anticipated normal workload levels, with Cloud services available to

handle workload spikes and overflow. The value proposition paints an enticing picture for CIOs struggling

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