CA Inc. is moving forward with its latest cloud computing acquisition by buying 3Tera.  The acquisition bolsters CA’s abilities to offer private and public cloud solutions by adding 3 Tera’s AppLogic to the CA portfolio.    It is CA Inc.’s third such cloud related acquisition, as it bought Oblicore recently in 2010 and Cassatt in the summer of 2009. Jay Fry, vice president of business unit strategy for CA explained what attracted CA to make the acquisition. "The most interesting thing about 3Tera is their ability to give both service providers and enterprises a way to take existing applications and bring them to 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," Fry said.

Industry analysts indicate that the acquisition will provide new opportunities for CA to provide cloud solutions to management and cloud customers as 3Tera already has approximately 20 service provider clients. 3Tera's AppLogic will become a platform for CA to sell management tools, not only to service providers but also to their customers," stated James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research. "CA will start to sell this technology to enterprises that will be ready to convert internal virtual infrastructure into cloud environments, and then following a big degree of integration with CA's existing products, CA will be ready to provide management technology for the cloud, against emerging competitors such as VMware."  Donna Scott, a VP and distinguished analyst with Gartner, pointed out that 3Tera is still a small in size and has limitations as it currently only works with the Xen Platform.   As a result, CA has some challenges in growing the size and scope of cloud computing capabilities.   Senior VP and chief architect at CA, Vince Re, says that his company knows the current infrastructure limitations and will expeditiously move to ad VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V as supported platforms.

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