CA Will Acquire 3Tera
It's CA's third acquisition in cloud computing (Cassatt last summer and Oblicore earlier this year).
3Tera will help CA get into cloud enablement, opening a door to service prociders AND another to cloud and management customers in the enterprise. 3Tera has 20 or so service provider clients.
Service providers use 3Tera's AppLogic suite to bring apps into private and public cloud environments via an elegant interface. The process used to be done very manually, but AppLogic automates it and smooths that transition.
Today 3Tera only works with Xen but the enterprise market mostly uses VMware. CA intends to move quickly to add VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V to its list of supported platforms.
CA will start to sell this technology to enterprises to take internal virtual infrastructure into cloud environments. After integration with CA's existing products, CA will be ready to provide management technology for the cloud, against emerging competitors including VMware.
“3Tera eliminates the manual, error-prone tasks that have historically hampered an organization’s ability to deploy IT services to the cloud,” says Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera. “As part of CA, we can bring rapid and simple cloud enablement to a dramatically larger group of customers, leveraging the thousands of CA sales, services and support professionals.”
