CA Technologies has outlined an ambitious strategy for enabling customers to leverage the business value of cloud computing as part of their broader enterprise IT environments—unveiling a robust CA Cloud-Connected Management Suite that will address the emerging challenges presented by the cloud. 

CA Technologies’ vision for the effective management of cloud computing focuses on the “IT supply chain”—the increasingly dynamic combination of external and internal resources that IT organizations are using to deliver critical applications and services to business users and their end-user customers. By managing and securing these resources in a common manner, IT can more adaptively respond to changing business needs, drive down costs and achieve increased value from their overall technology spending. 

“Historically, IT relied almost exclusively on internal resources and infrastructure to meet the needs of the enterprise,” said Chris O’Malley, executive vice president of the Cloud Products & Solutions Business Line at CA Technologies, during a speech today at CA World 2010. “As companies embrace cloud computing, however, they increasingly partner with whichever external providers can best help them meet their changing requirements. This means an organization’s ability to gain competitive advantages from technology will be contingent upon their ability to continuously optimize their IT supply chains.”