Posts in the category of "CA"

What the Business Needs from IT — Quality of Service

What the Business Needs from IT — Quality of Service

As more business processes become automated and move to the Web, enterprises are increasingly reliant on IT to provide services to customers. Ensuring that the quality of those services is consistently high is essential to creating high customer satisfaction and protecting revenue streams. But traditionally, IT management has been focused on individual silos of technology, [See the full post…]

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Tackling the challenges of increasing complexity and heterogeneity

Tackling the challenges of increasing complexity and heterogeneity

The convergence of voice and data on the network is now a reality. The same network is expected to carry both data and voice traffic using various technologies including wireless and video. A reduction in the number of networks is an advantage that also increases complexity. Operations staff and line-of-business owners need to ensure that [See the full post…]

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Taking Control of the IT Complexity Crisis

Taking Control of the IT Complexity Crisis

Enterprises are turning to IT to automate and simplify business processes, but as a result, IT systems are becoming more complex and difficult to manage. One of the major points of business impact within IT — enterprise Web applications — now typically interact with enterprise networks, application servers, back-end systems like databases, legacy systems and [See the full post…]

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What Network Managers Should Know About Application Management

What Network Managers Should Know About Application Management

Network managers find themselves with a widening set of non-network management responsibilities as enterprise web services and applications become more complex and network-dependent. But, it is neither realistic nor cost effective for enterprises to diffuse the expertise of network managers with application management responsibilities. Instead, the focus should be on leveraging the complimentary and collaborative [See the full post…]

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Six Ways to Choose the Most Effective Network Management Solution for the Finance Industry

Six Ways to Choose the Most Effective Network Management Solution for the Finance Industry

Gnanesh Dholakia, senior product marketing manager at CA, and Jim Metzler, VP, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, look at network management issues in the financial industry.

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Six Steps to Selecting an Effective Network Management Solution for the Healthcare Industry

Six Steps to Selecting an Effective Network Management Solution for the Healthcare Industry

Gnanesh Dholakia, senior product marketing manager at CA, and Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, look at network management issues in the health care industry.

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Six Ways to Select the Most Effective Network Management Solution for the Government

Six Ways to Select the Most Effective Network Management Solution for the Government

Gnanesh Dholakia, senior product marketing manager at CA, and Jim Metzler, VP, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, discuss challenges to — and solutions for — Government network management.

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Six Steps to Choosing an Effective Network Management Solution for the Communications, Media and Entertainment Industries

Six Steps to Choosing an Effective Network Management Solution for the Communications, Media and Entertainment Industries

Gnanesh Dholakia, senior product marketing manager at CA, and Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, discuss the changes to the media, entertainment, and communications industries, and the accompanying challenges to network management.

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IT Event Correlation and Root Cause Analysis

IT Event Correlation and Root Cause Analysis

This podcast is our second with Venu Venugopal, vice president of solutions marketing at CA. In today’s IT environment your operations group can be deluged with event storms, numerous false positives, and a “sea of red” on their consoles. An event correlation and root cause analysis solution can be critical in helping you contend with [See the full post…]

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The Secrets Behind Proactive MPLS Service Assurance

The Secrets Behind Proactive MPLS Service Assurance

We sat down with Venu Venugopal, vice president of solutions marketing at CA, to discuss strategies for management of an MPLS VPN rollout. There are some great benefits, but along with those benefits come serious challenges. Venu helps you sort out the important things to know to face those challenges and manage your VPN proactively.

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