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CA

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CA is one of the world's largest IT management software companies providing software and services around:

• Application & Development Databases
• Application Performance Management
• Database Management
• Infrastructure & Operations Management
• IT Service & Asset Management
• Mainframe, Project, Portfolio & Financial Management
• Security Management
• Storage & Information Governance

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• Webcast: Enterprise Virtualization Management

  Learn how to manage server virtualization at the enterprise level. Where does it make sense, who is adopting it, and more.

• CA Opens the Black Box:Adding Mainframe Focus to the End-to-End Application Performance Management Puzzle
  
  This white paper is written for CIOs and IT executives tasked with providing a strategic vision for delivering high-quality business applications at a reasonable price. It addresses high-level objectives, such as aligning IT with the business, improving IT service quality, and reducing IT costs, and also provides a structure for addressing tactically-oriented challenges, such as superior end-to-end application performance management.
  
  
• Employing Best Practices for Mainframe Tape Encryption
  
  Increased regulatory scrutiny on the protection levels afforded sensitive information by those that transact and process it is causing enterprises to improve mainframe security strategies. This entails proactively investigating exposures and implementing appropriate policies, processes and technologies, including those for data z/OS tape encryption.
  
  
• Data Professionals Broaden Their Skills
  
  A new survey among members of the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) finds that many data managers and professionals are expanding their range of expertise to provide higher-level services to enterprises. However, many feel that Data professionals are not receiving the training and support needed to improve their skills base.
  
  
• How Can You zIIP? Getting More From Your zIIP Engines
  
  Total cost of ownership (TCO) is on everyone’s mind, so the introduction of specialty engines by IBM looked particularly attractive to enterprise customers with large mainframe farms. The cost of specialty engine MIPS was so attractive, as were the software licensing rules which stated that measured usage would only include general processor capacity. But how do you offload more work to the specialty engines?
  
  
• The Key To IT Business Alignment Is In Operations
  
  Improving service delivery requires tracking issues to their root cause and improving the specific process that creates the problem. A topdown analysis of process dependencies associated with metrics that are measuring the outcome of each IT process would certainly provide a better set of IT management metrics than what exists today. Problems appearing in production, for example, could be then tracked to their real root cause, and real process improvement could take place.
  
  
• Business Service Management Links IT Services to Business Goals
  
  Business activities and profitability increasingly depend on technology, challenging IT to optimize services based on business priorities. The most effective way to deliver business-optimized service is to adopt a process-driven, holistic approach to IT operations, shifting the focus from technology to important services, and measuring success from the service consumer’s perspective.
  
  
• Network and Voice Management for Evolving Business Environments
  
  The network management market has grown quickly as IT has become the ubiquitous tool for driving business innovation, and as demands for improved service performance and reduced downtime have escalated. Management of technology resources is the key to increasing business productivity and reducing the cost of operation.
  
  
• Infrastructure Performance Management Empowers You and Your Company
  
  This report introduces IPM, offers tips for successful IPM implementation, and explores how IPM can benefit your enterprise as well as your career.
  
  
• Network and Voice Management Software from CA, EMC, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and IBM
  
  Superior, advanced and flexible enterprise network management software is fundamental to addressing these infrastructure needs going forward. This Bloor InComparison paper looks at four leading companies (CA, EMC, HP and IBM) in terms of their strategies and technologies for addressing network (fault and performance) management and voice management, in major enterprises, comparing and contrasting their relative strengths and approaches.
  
  
• Network Change and Configuration Management: Optimize Reliability, Minimize Risk and Reduce Costs
  
  This white paper will focus on the strong values that NCCM can bring to reliability, risk and cost management, as well as some of its powerful operational and lifecycle asset values. In doing so, this report will draw strongly from EMA research conducted in 2007 on real world requirements and adoption patterns, as well as EMA’s ongoing research into available technologies and products in the NCCM marketplace.
  
  
• The Changing Face of Network Management
  
  Preventing network downtime and performance degradation is every IT manager’s goal. Causes are not always preventable — major power outages and other external events occur — but a considerable amount of disruption can be prevented. Industry analysts agree that erroneous network configuration changes, manually entered, cause a significant portion of network downtime and performance degradation. With that kind of impact, getting change and configuration management under control is critical.
  
  
• Best Practices for Planning, Deploying and Managing Enterprise VoIP
  
  The goal of this white paper is to help the reader gain a better understanding of the challenges presented by VoIP as well as what must be done from a planning and management perspective to successfully deploy VoIP. The discussion includes a high level description of a proven methodology for deploying VoIP and other demanding applications, as well as a discussion of a management system that is optimized for both fault and performance management of converged voice and data networks.
  
  
• Webcast: Achieving Business Objectives Through a Project Management Office
  
  This presentation will explore key lessons learned that will help position an IT PMO to support the business. It will also highlight some actual examples of tools utilized by the CVS|Caremark Business PMO.
  
  
• Webcast: The Business Value of Identity Management - Making It Happen
  
  Managing users account and access to this information is a hot topic for 2008. Learn how to combine business and IT, to go from concept to execution of identity management.
  
  
• Webcast: IT Management Trends for 2008
  
  CA's industry expert discusses these trends: IT transforming the business, how to force IT to be an engine for competitive change, IT governance and green IT.
  
  
• Five Keys to a Successful Identity and Access Management Implementation
  
  IAM projects require a thorough understanding of an organization’s business strategy and security posture, along with a clear vision of the desired security state and the steps required to get there. To reach this end state, organizations often implement too much new technology at once, and fail to receive value from their efforts in a timely manner. Many also fail to educate end users and IT personnel on the new technology and its impact on processes, and to perform the routine maintenance and upgrades that can deliver maximum value on their IAM project.
  
  
• Webcast: IT Planning & Financial Management Best Practices
  
  Learn how top executives from Career Education Corp., Hub Group, Standard Bank And Trust, and CNA plan initiatives to more closely align IT operations to business and more.
  
  
• An Integrated Framework and Roadmap: How to Plan, Deploy and Sustain for Competitive Advantage
  
  While there is no single right way for organizations to approach improvements in IT governance, this paper
  proposes a comprehensive and integrated IT governance framework and roadmap which identifies the appropriate current and emerging best practice methodologies for each of the major IT Governance components that must be addressed in any approach.
  
  
• Webcast: Project Portfolio Management & its Role in the Holistic Solution Required to Manage Today's IT
  
  Learn a new holistic approach for managing IT through the use of IT portfolios.Topics include the IT portfolios, case studies, and more!
  
  
• Optimize the Costs and Utilization of IT Service Assets
  
  The CA IT Asset & Financial Management (ITAFM) solution addresses the need for managing the asset lifecycle and the associated costs of an asset through its lifecycle. CA ITAFM supports management of the asset lifecycle and management of the relationships between assets that define a service. The opportunity is to improve customer satisfaction by providing essential and expected services, while achieving a quick return on investment.
  
  
• Getting Started with a Project Management Office (PMO)
  
  This paper, the first in a four-part series from CA, contains practical insights and best practices for better IT project delivery. It discusses ways of moving from an ad-hoc approach to a more effective process by implementing a project management office (PMO). The focus is on determining the state of your company’s existing IT efforts, confirm the overall business goals and create a roadmap that brings together the necessary people, processes and technologies to achieve them. Then will you be able to establish a PMO that ensures efficient and cost-effective project execution and delivery.
  
  
• Best Practice Methodologies for the Project Management Office (PMO)
  
  This paper, the third in a four-part series from CA, discusses the three leading formalized project management methodologies — the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Manage ment Book of Knowledge® (PMBOK®), the UK-born Projects in Controlled Environments (PRINCE2), and Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). CA advocates leveraging each of the instructional and impacting methodologies mentioned above to maximize execution success.
  
  
• How Technology Supports Project, Program and Portfolio Management
  
  This white paper, the fourth in a four-part series from CA, will detail how to use reference architectures and technology to optimize process and best practices, and deliver project completion, value, and manageable costs. The paper discusses which CA products and services are targeted at providing rapid time to value for clients at the appropriate level of PMO maturity.
  
  
• Evolving the Maturity Level of Your Project Management Office (PMO)
  
  This white paper, the second in a four-part series from CA, discusses tips and techniques for setting up effective, iterative benchmarking and project rollout. The focus is on utilizing industry standard PPM/PMO frameworks to benchmark, analyze, and evolve your organization’s levels of PMO maturity. Recommendations on ensuring the success of the process improvement project will also be addressed.
  
  
• Security Management: Aligning Security with Business Operations
  
  A successful security management strategy helps ensure continuous business operations by minimizing risk at virtually every level of the organization. And because IT budgets are always tight, a successful security management system can also help IT stay within budgetary constraints and increase operational efficiencies.
  
  
• From Boom to Resume – The Tyranny of the Logistics Time Line
  
  There are at least 10 steps to move from “Boom” to “Resume,” and it is critical to ensure that this logistical pipeline of key steps is highly visible during the planning process. Even more critical is the need for a hard-nosed, pragmatic assessment of best case and worst case timing in each component of the recovery time line. Let’s look at 10 of the most obvious steps in this logistics time line.
  
  
• IT Security Management as a Business Enabler
  
  IT security organizations must manage risk, meet regulatory compliance requirements and fulfill user needs, all the while working to constantly reduce costs. But IT security can do much more than “keep the bad guys out”; IT security can “securely let the good guys in,” thereby helping to enable critical business initiatives.
  
  
• Webcast: IT Governance Policy
  
  IT governance evangelist Steven Romero says IT governance policy & it's associated principles provide direction for all IT decision making- including portfolio and project management. As IT people we should be asking how we help the business achieve business objectives.