CA on Wednesday said it agreed to acquire privately held 3Tera. The acquisition lets the former Computer Associates move deeper into cloud management with 3Tera’s popular AppLogic solution. The terms of CA’s latest in a string of acquisitions were not disclosed.
AppLogic is a solution for building cloud services and deploying complex enterprise-class applications to pubic and private clouds using an intuitive graphical user interface. 3Tera’s solutions aim to make it easier for service providers to offer application stacks on demand by adding apps to the AppLogic catalog, where they can be deployed to a shared cloud infrastructure.
Following CA’s recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore, 3Tera is yet another move in an aggressive expansion of portfolio solutions to manage cloud computing as part of an integrated information-technology management program.
“By adding this technology to its own strengths in IT management, CA is offering an intriguing value proposition to customers who want to both take advantage of the cloud’s adaptability and maintain rigorous control of their virtual-service delivery infrastructure,” said Rachel Chalmers, research director at The 451 Group.
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AppLogic draws from a catalog of pre-configured virtual server and software components to simplify the design and deployment of applications as a single logical entity in the cloud. By unifying application configuration, deployment and a virtual-server fabric — functions that are typically performed in a fragmented manner — CA said AppLogic helps reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase service quality.
But AppLogic isn’t the only value 3Tera brings to the CA table. 3Tera also boasts a cloud-computing marketplace that paves the way for software vendors to offer developers production-ready cloud components and full applications available on a pay-as-you-go basis. As CA sees it, the marketplace facilitates exchanges of value between developers, service providers, and customers.
With 3Tera, CA has new capabilities that work alongside its…