CA Continues Shopping Spree; Acquires 3Tera To Boost Presence In The Cloud

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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010


IT software giant CA is acquiring cloud computing startup 3Tera. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. 3Tera’s product, AppLogic, helps enterprises build and deploy cloud-bases applications both to public and private clouds.

CA is opening up the purse strings to boost its presence in the cloud. The company recently acquired Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore. 3Tera allows companies to provision, deploy and scale public and private cloud computing environments. 3Tera also makes it easy for service providers to offer application stacks on demand. 3Tera’s client base includes 80 enterprises and service providers globally, which use the cloud computing technology to provide services to users

CA plans to integrate 3Tera’s AppLogic into its own suite of offerings. CA also plans to extend support of 3Tera to include both VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V(TM).

Company: CA Technologies
Website: ca.com
Launch Date: 1974
IPO: NASDAQ:CA

CA, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, marketing, licensing, and support of information technology (IT) management software products that operate on a range of hardware platforms and operating systems. The company has a portfolio of software products and services that address its customers’ needs for mainframe and distributed environments, spanning IT governance, IT management, and IT security. It focuses on various areas that include infrastructure management, project and portfolio management, security management, service management, application...

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