CA Named Leader In Data Center Automation by Independent Research Firm

CA Noted for Being Well Positioned to Satisfy Customer Needs

DUBAI, UAE, April 29, 2008: CA today announced it has been named a "Leader" for data center automation (DCA) solutions in The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Automation, Q2 2008 (April 2008) research report.* For the report, Forrester analysts evaluated seven vendors' solutions based on 80 criteria grouped by current offering, strategy and market presence. CA was noted for being well positioned to satisfy customer needs.

According to Forrester, DCA helps automate IT systems management process across technology domains. "Data center automation is a major contributor in the ongoing battle to drive down costs through increased automation," Forrester stated in the report. "Today's data center automation solutions provide IT with the functionality to automatically deploy, provision, change, and configure IT system resources. Early DCA tools automated a set of IT operations within specific technology domains, but the next-generation DCA tools span technology domains and incorporate four key functional areas: comprehensive discovery, configuration and change management, IT process orchestration, and change control."

"[CA's] DCA capabilities include change and configuration management, discovery and asset management, provisioning, patching, and workload automation," wrote Evelyn Hubbert, senior analyst, Forrester Research. "With these solutions along with integration into CA's CMDB, CA put itself among the roster of key DCA vendors."

"CA's Data Center Automation solutions allow flexible virtualized deployment across heterogeneous environments while leveraging current investments in related management solutions. By unifying workloads and workflows, CA DCA allows IT to integrate and automate complex processes across infrastructure domains, facilitating trustworthy operational decisions," said Roger Pilc, senior vice president and GM, CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. "Integration across CA's comprehensive portfolio of Business Service Management (BSM) solutions, along with CA's IT Governance and Security solutions, enhances the value and business impact of customers' DCA investments. These advantages make CA DCA the most dynamic, comprehensive and strategic solution available, providing cross-domain, policy-driven automation that gives customers the ability to optimize assets to meet the service demands of the business while controlling complexity and reducing both costs and errors."

For more information on CA DCA solutions, please visit http://www.ca.com/bsm.

For a copy of "The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Automation, Q2 2008", please visit http://www.ca.com/analysts.

* Forrester, Inc., "The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Automation, Q2 2008" by Evelyn Hubbert, April 2008.

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About CA
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest independent software companies, provides software solutions to unify and simplify™ IT management. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage. Founded in 1976, CA serves customers in virtually every country in the world. For more information, please visit www.ca.com.

About CA in Eastern EMEA
CA's Eastern EMEA region comprises the Arab countries, Africa, Levant, Pakistan, Russia and the CIS, and Turkey. CA's strong local presence includes over 200 highly skilled professionals and a 24x7 multilingual Customer and Partner Support Center located in the region.

CA customers in the region include Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Akzo Nobel, Al Jubail Petrochemical, Al-Rajhi Banking & Investment Corp, Arab Banking Corporation, Arab Financial Services, Bank of Beirut, Banque Misr, The Contact Centre, Dubai Department of Civil Aviation, Dubai International Financial Centre, Emirates Airlines, Emirates Bank International, Emirates National Oil Company, Higher Colleges of Technology, Hugo Boss, King Saud University, Mashreq Bank, National Computer Center, PWC Logistics, Salalah Port Services, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Takreer (Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company), and many other organizations large and small.

For more information, please visit http://www.ca.com/arabworld.

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