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CA's Web Services Management Strategy Draws Support From Broad Range of Industry Partners

Posted on: Monday, 8 December 2003, 06:00 CST

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Computer Associates International, Inc. today announced support for its on-demand Web services management strategy from leading industry partners, enabling customers to ensure the performance and integrity of a wide range of on-demand business systems.

BEA Systems Inc. , Collaxa, DataPower Technology Inc., JBoss Group LLC, Microsoft Corp. , Mindreef Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Systinet Corp. are providing solutions designed to integrate with and complement CA's own management technologies, including its newly-released Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) (see related announcement http://www3.ca.com/Press/pressrelease.asp?CID=53509).

"CA's vision of highly-reliable Web services unifying IT as an on-demand utility is clearly gaining traction," said Dmitri Tcherevik, vice president of Web services at CA. "We will continue to work with many industry leaders to give customers the ability to fully leverage information resources across and beyond the enterprise."

Announcements from CA partners include:

-- Collaxa: Integration with Unicenter WSDM to provide discovery,

configuration and management of BPEL processes running on the Collaxa

BPEL server.

-- DataPower: Embedded in-band Unicenter WSDM-compliant monitoring into

DataPower's Web services security and XML processing hardware.

-- JBoss: Native Unicenter WSDM observer for the JBoss open source

application server platform.

-- Mindreef: Integration of Mindreef's SOAPscope diagnostic system with

Unicenter WSDM's SOAP fault alerting mechanism.

-- Systinet: A Unicenter WSDM-compliant observer plug-in for Systinet's

Web Applications and Services Platform (WASP).

CA is also working with BEA Systems, Microsoft and Sun to help ensure that mutual customers can natively monitor and manage Web services deployed using their respective platforms.

CA's end-to-end management solutions help customers build enterprise-class reliability and security into their new deployments, empowering dynamic allocation of infrastructure resources to Web services and other critical applications driven by changing business requirements:

-- Unicenter WSDM automatically discovers, tests and monitors J2EE and

.NET Web services - enabling IT organizations to closely track a full

range of performance indicators and rapidly respond to service

interruptions.

-- Unicenter Management for WebSphere and Unicenter Management for

WebLogic provide in-depth visibility and control over the performance

of the underlying application infrastructure.

-- eTrust Directory provides the first truly enterprise-ready UDDI

implementation suitable for large-scale Web services deployments.

In addition, CA is actively contributing to Web services standards efforts, including numerous working groups under OASIS, W3C, WS-I, DMTF, GGF and the Liberty Alliance.

"Vendors with experience in managing heterogeneous enterprise environments are better prepared for the challenges of managing Web services, which typically have a wide range of complex infrastructure- and software-level dependencies," said Nick Gall, senior vice president and principal analyst, Technology Research Services, META Group, Inc. "Organizations seeking to ensure the manageability of their emerging Web services would be well advised to select vendors who work with a wide range of partners and rigorously comply with industry standards."

More information about Unicenter WSDM and CA's other Web services solutions is available at http://ca.com/webservices.

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About CA

Computer Associates International, Inc. , one of the world's largest software companies, delivers software and services that enable organizations to manage their IT environments. Focus areas include network and systems management, storage and security management, portal and business intelligence, and application life cycle management. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and operates in more than 100 countries. For more information on CA, please visit http://ca.com/.

All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Industry Partners Support CA's Unicenter WSDM

BEA Systems

"CA's Unicenter WSDM can help simplify the management of Web services- based applications deployed on BEA WebLogic Platform. The integration of Unicenter WSDM to WebLogic Platform is designed to provide developers, quality assurance engineers, and IT staff with the visibility to monitor and manage enterprise Web service deployments."

Benjamin Renaud

Deputy CTO

BEA Systems Inc.

Collaxa

"An increasing number of enterprises are adopting XML Web services and BPEL as the foundation for their integration and business process management projects. Collaxa enables the robust orchestration of Web services. However, management of those orchestrated services to deliver ongoing visibility and control to customers' enterprise Web services is required. CA is leading the industry with a WSDM implementation that provides our mutual customers the ability to manage business processes."

Edwin Khodabakchian

CEO

Collaxa

DataPower

"In large organizations, real-world Web services deployments require the ability to scale the operational complexity in a cost-effective and reliable manner. The combination of DataPower's XML-aware networking devices and CA's Unicenter WSDM represents a key technological advancement and enables our mutual customers' management capabilities to cope with the enormous complexity of Web services that are widely distributed across enterprise environments. Working together, CA and DataPower are leading the way toward the successful implementation of large-scale XML Web services with the levels of performance, security and reliability required by Global 2000 companies."

Eugene Kuznetsov

Chairman and CTO

DataPower Technology Inc.

JBoss

"JBoss Group is pleased to support CA and its new Web services management product, which is a key ingredient to ensuring successful deployment of Web services in the enterprise. JBoss Group's alignment with CA's new product gives our mutual customers added performance and control when deploying Web services on the JBoss platform."

Marc Fleury

Founder, JBoss.org

President, JBoss Group LLC

Microsoft

"Because of the heterogeneous nature of Web services, a key component in meeting the management challenge for enterprise customers includes providing interoperable support for business functions that span multiple platforms. Microsoft is pleased to be working with Computer Associates to ensure best-of- breed .NET Web services management in heterogeneous environments within and across enterprises."

David Hamilton

Director, Enterprise Management Division

Microsoft Corp.

Mindreef

"Bugs and interoperability issues in Web services can quickly spread throughout a system, making the source extremely difficult to identify. Now, the tool developers use to find and fix problems during development is available to fix product problems - reducing resolution time and minimizing service interruptions. By receiving SOAP faults detected from Unicenter WSDM, SOAPscope drills down to root causes with a comprehensive suite of tools that add value to all stages of the service oriented lifecycle."

Mark Ericson

CTO

Mindreef Inc.

Sun

"Sun has made major strides in simplifying customers' IT environments with the Java Enterprise System. Working with CA to integrate Unicenter WSDM with Java Enterprise System product line, customers are able to natively monitor and manage Web services, helping them better manage and control all stages of the software development lifecycle. This alliance bridges an important gap in managed Web services as both companies participate on OASIS Web services standards committees."

Stuart Wells

Vice President, Market Development

Sun Microsystems Inc.

Systinet

"We're very pleased to be working with Computer Associates. Unicenter WSDM provides a complete management solution for Web services, and together with Systinet WASP makes it possible to build and deploy sophisticated, business-critical Web services-based applications."

Wendell Lansford

COO

Systinet Corp.

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Computer Associates International, Inc.

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