CA Technologies releases products designed to manage and secure virtual, cloud applications as well as deliver service assurance capabilities across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
With every innovative new technology comes a mandate for advanced management and security tools to help IT organizations actually achieve the benefits promised by deploying, say, virtual servers or cloud applications.
CA makes ambitious moves to the cloud
This week CA Technologies made news with several high-tech reporting outlets for just that. The software maker Monday announced the general availability of five products within its CA Virtual portfolio: CA Virtual Assurance, CA Virtual Automation, CA Virtual Configuration, CA Virtual Assurance for Infrastructure Managers and CA Virtual Privilege Manager. The vendor also introduced its CA Virtual Foundation Suite, which CA Technologies states in a press release “combines select virtualization management products at a compelling price point.”
According to an article in eWEEK, IT managers face security challenges such as privileged user access as the number of virtual servers in their environment grows. CA Technologies’ Andi Mann, vice president of product marketing, spoke with the publication about the product releases and why managing access to virtual servers will soon present problems for IT managers. The CA Virtual Privilege Manager product is designed to address such concerns, according to reports.
Mann stated in the eWEEK article: “The question is, how do you provide privileged users the access to get their work done without giving away the keys to the kingdom.”
Mann also spoke with CTO Edge on the topic of virtualization security, noting that while virtual servers have yet to succumb to highly publicized external attacks, many in IT organizations worry about the internal threat. Virtual servers will challenge the existing approach to entitlement and access management in many IT departments, according to Birendra Gosai, who works in the virtualization management business unit at CA Technologies.
“IT organizations will soon face challenges managing infrastructure entitlements in the virtual environment, similar to those faced with the management of application entitlements. With the advent of virtualization, a large number of new entitlements are being introduced into the data center,” Gosai wrote in a CA Technologies on Virtualization and Automation blog. “Comprehensive role modeling and analytics capabilities, coupled with virtualization management technologies, can provide a strong foundation to expand [role-based access control] RBAC for the comprehensive management of entitlements across heterogeneous virtual environments – thus helping contain Virtual Entitlements Sprawl (‘VE Sprawl’).”
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