Sep 28, 2010 : CA Technologies to Acquire Hyperformix

📅 September 28, 2010 - Hyperformix' capacity management solutions will help the company accelerate the customer journey from virtualization to the cloud.

CA Technologies, a provider of IT management software and solutions, today announced a definitive agreement to buy Hyperformix, a provider of capacity management software for dynamic physical, virtual, and cloud IT infrastructures. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the company.

It explains that capacity management enables customers to discover how physical, virtual, hardware, software, storage, and network resources are being used, and to determine what resources will be needed in the future. The technology also helps customers optimize the deployment of those resources to meet business objectives.

The company claims that the acquisition of Hyperformix will help it extend its position in virtualization management, with market-leading virtualization capacity management capabilities that complement its existing virtualization, automation, and assurance solutions. Together these technologies will comprise a comprehensive, integrated solution to help customers evolve from an entry-level virtualization project to a mature dynamic data center and private cloud operation.

It says that specifically, the company's combination with Hyperformix will help organizations:

• Overcome challenges such as VM Sprawl (uncontrolled VM deployments) and VM Stall (the inability to move beyond initial virtualization of 20-30 percent of servers)
• Ensure application performance and service level agreements
• Deliver cost, agility and availability benefits to the business through faster and more reliable data center consolidations, virtualization rollouts, platform refreshes and application migrations
  

The company articulates that it shares many customers and partners with Hyperformix. This acquisition presents new opportunities for expanding and strengthening relationships with those organizations, while opening new opportunities with ones whose goal is to advance their virtualization operations. The transaction is expected to close within the company's third fiscal quarter, which ends December 31, 2010. Hyperformix' operations and its employees will become part of the Virtualization and Automation business at the company. It intends to expand its integrations with Hyperformix' solutions to include the CA Virtual, CA Service Automation, CA Service Assurance and CA Cloud portfolios.

"Virtualization capacity management is among customers' most critical IT management needs," said Roger Pilc, General Manager of CA Technologies Virtualization and Automation customer solutions business. "An important aspect of our virtualization and cloud strategies is to help customers overcome the 'VM stall' challenges they encounter as they roll out virtualization and progress to a dynamic, cloud-based data center architecture. Hyperformix strengthens our ability to help organizations advance their IT infrastructures to benefit the business."

"Capacity management is an important discipline for customers attempting to expand their virtualization and private cloud deployments," said Peter Klante, President and CEO, Hyperformix. "As a virtualization rollout progresses through the enterprise, insight and comprehensive planning are required to realize its potential. CA Technologies and Hyperformix will deliver on that critical need."