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operations and infrastructure — achieving operational efficiencies, risk mitigation, compliance, business flexibility
and investment protection. We offer Storage Management solutions in the following four categories:
• Recovery Management — these solutions help customers mitigate risk and improve business continuity in a
cost-effective manner by providing backup/recovery, tape and media management, and high-availability
solutions.
• Resource Management — these solutions help customers achieve operational efficiency and gain business
flexibility. They enable customers to identify information, data and storage resources; monitor the storage
environment; classify data, information and resources based on their value to the business; and define and
automate storage processes.
• Information Management — these solutions help customers address compliance issues as they pertain to
message management, discovery and archive requirements, and extend the data lifecycle to align with
corporate governance and business requirements.
• Mainframe — these solutions offer an integrated, intelligent enterprise-wide storage management approach
enabling z/OS-centric businesses to reduce costs, mitigate risks and align business requirements with IT.
Our storage management and data availability solutions support networks, systems, servers, operating systems,
desktops, databases, applications, arrays, and tape libraries across mainframe and distributed environments. The
acquisition of iLumin strengthened our capabilities in information management.
Business Service Optimization
Our solutions for Business Service Optimization help organizations manage their IT investments. These products
help translate business needs into IT requirements; provide visibility into the services being delivered and the cost of
delivering those services; enable more effective management of an IT organization’s people, processes, and assets;
and help our customers make informed decisions about issues such as investment priorities and outsourcing. We
offer Business Service Optimization products in the following four categories:
• Business Process Management — these solutions help companies reduce costs and mitigate risk by achieving
process efficiency and agility through automation and the understanding and management of IT and business
processes and policies.
• Service Management — these solutions enable IT and business alignment by defining IT service offerings in
business terms, provisioning, supporting, and allocating costs for these service offerings, improving service
levels, and managing change.
• Asset Management — these solutions help organizations control costs, improve process efficiencies and
maximize their return on investments by managing the technical and business aspects of hardware and
software from procurement through disposal.
• IT Governance — these solutions help assure operational excellence by linking IT decisions with business
objectives; providing strong financial control, optimizing IT resources and assets, and controlling software
changes. The acquisition of Niku significantly strengthened our IT governance offering.
CA Products Group
In addition to our leadership offerings in the above areas, we also offer products that address other aspects of the IT
environment. This diverse group of solutions includes products that deliver value throughout the IT spectrum,
grouped in the following four categories.
• Database Management systems — these solutions enable reliable management of large data and transaction
volumes, exploit advances in database technology, and integrate these information stores to distributed and
web-based business needs, leveraging database process integrity across the enterprise.
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