Latest Version of CA Wily Application Performance Management Solution Optimized for Larger, More Complex SOA and Virtualized Environments

“For SOA implementations to be successful, it is critical to realize the importance of managing application performance in an increasingly complex IT environment,” said Jason Bloomberg, managing partner and senior analyst, ZapThink. “When problems occur, they can be extremely time consuming and costly to resolve without visibility into the entire business transaction. To prevent problems from occurring in the first place, enterprises should deploy a reliable, scalable and complete SOA-ready application performance management solution that monitors the overall business transaction performance and customer experience from any service consumer to the back-end SOA infrastructure in real time.”

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SOA Performance

Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex, heterogeneous information technology (IT) environments. To achieve this agility, architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations of those Services. Building such an abstraction layer is not without risks, however–inherent in building such an abstraction is the risk of sacrificing performance and scalability to achieve the organization’s required agility.

As SOA becomes mainstream, though, enterprises simply cannot afford to trade away performance to achieve agility. As a result, architects must plan for performance up front, as part of their SOA planning process, and leverage a variety of techniques and solutions to achieve performance and scalability as well as business agility as the traffic to their Services continues to increase.

Vordel Announces OEM Agreement With CA

David Linthicum, Managing Partner at analyst firm ZapThink commented that, “The ability to apply policies to SOA is critical. Using Vordel’s XML Gateway technology as an integral component of a centralized policy-based approach to SOA is a smart move.”

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CA lays foundation for greater systems automation

“Businesses look to SOA to make them more flexible, and CA is also looking to SOA for that reason, but to make IT more flexible. CA is making the case that an IT organisation should be a flexible entity that operates based on processes that stretch across servers, networks, applications, storage and end users,” says Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink.

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HP buys Mercury, positions itself for SOA management

When the $4.5 billion deal is completed later this year, HP will gain Mercury’s software management technology plus the Systinet Registry, which Mercury acquired this past January. Assuming that HP can successfully integrate the Mercury and Systinet products into its OpenView management architecture, it will be positioned to compete with IBM Tivoli and Computer Associates, said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC.

“It’s now the battle of the Titans, HP versus CA and IBM Tivoli, to see who can put together the most complete, service-oriented enterprise IT management (EITM) story for the enterprise,” the analyst said.

“CA is well on its way to reworking its entire product line to take advantage of the CA Integration Platform, essentially an ESB that enables their products to interact via services as part of a service-oriented product architecture,” Bloomberg explained. “Under OpenView CTO Mark Potts HP has also been reworking its OpenView architecture along SOA lines. With the Mercury acquisition, HP now adds full lifecycle management to the mix and what will likely turn out to be the gem of the deal, the Systinet Registry — HP’s answer to IBM’s new registry/repository product. The war is over EITM, but the battle zone is shaping up to be SOA governance.”

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Mercury a Measure For HP Software Position

“Whereas before they primarily had capabilities once applications were deployed, with Mercury and Systinet under their belt they can credibly approach the design, test, and deployment phases of the lifecycle and not just deployment and management,” said ZapThink analyst Ronald Schmelzer.

“HP is really ready to tackle the whole picture of the service lifecycle.”

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HP to buy Mercury Interactive for $4.5B

Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC in Baltimore, said that the deal now creates a battle of the titans between HP, CA and IBM to see who can put together the most compelete enterprise information management offering. He said the battle zone is shaping up to be over service-oriented governance.

“With the Mercury acquisition, HP now adds full lifecycle management to the mix, and what will likely turn out to be the gem of the deal: the Systinet registry, HP’s answer to IBM’s new [Web services] registry product,” Bloomberg said.

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SOA for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

As Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is particularly useful in large enterprises, and increasingly, to small and midsize businesses, as well. However, those are only one part of the IT ecosystem. What about those companies that are in the business of building and selling software products, so called …

CA set to tackle Web services security

With companies beginning to bring Web services online, customers are looking for tools that can help them thwart potential attacks and ensure that the Web services are used only by authorized users and applications, says Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst with ZapThink.

“The Unicenter WSDM product is a reasonably mature product for Web-services management, and Transaction Minder was gaining some traction in the Web-services security space at the time that CA acquired Netegrity,” Bloomberg says. “These are the two leading SOA products that CA offers, so it makes sense for them to be together.”

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RSA: CA’s ‘Project SOA’ tackles Web services security

With companies now beginning to bring Web services online, customers are looking for tools that can help them thwart potential attacks and also ensure that the Web services are used by only authorized users and applications, said Jason Bloomberg a senior analyst with ZapThink LLC, based in Baltimore.

“The Unicenter WSDM product is a reasonably mature product for Web services management, and Transaction Minder was gaining some traction in the Web services security space at the time that CA acquired Netegrity,” Bloomberg said. “These are the two leading SOA products that CA offers, so it makes sense for them to be together.”

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