CA Technologies Signs Global Licensing and Distribution Agreement with Velocity Software

Today at SHARE's bi-annual user conference for enterprise technology professionals, CA Technologies CA announced an agreement with Velocity Software, a leading Linux performance management company, to include the company's zVPS™ Performance Suite for IBM System z in its comprehensive Linux on System z management offering. Velocity Software's products help IT organizations optimize performance and reduce cost via graphical, real-time access to detailed performance data and analysis of z/VM and Linux on System z performance. "Performance Management is a critical aspect of customer IT management strategies," said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies. "We are offering Velocity Software's leading performance management suite to help our customers optimize management of their Linux on System z environment." zVPS offers easy-to-use graphical and web-based tools to help analyze capacity requirements, establish operational alerts and determine chargeback usage. Its detailed information helps IT staff optimize performance and effectively manage the cost of their Linux on System z environment. By gathering data from Linux on System z and distributed environments, such as VMWare, Microsoft, Linux and Unix servers, zVPS supports server consolidation projects and facilitates decisions on the most cost-effective placement of workloads.