CA Wins Top Honor in Job Scheduling Software Segment

CA, an independent IT management software company, has been recognized as the worldwide market share leader in job scheduling software by analyst firm IDC whose December 2008 “Worldwide System Operations Software 2007 Vendor Shares” finding reports that CA’s (News - Alert) market share increased 10.9 percent year-over-year. The company now owns 19.6 percent of the $1.5 billion job scheduling software market.

“Companies recognize CA Workload Automation as the premier solution for automating the scheduling and deployment of workloads across mainframe and distributed systems,” said Will Bauman, Senior Vice President and General Manager of CA’s Workload Automation business unit.

As IT administrators increasingly leverage technologies such as virtualization, automation, SOA and Web services, they are looking at CA to help them transform job scheduling and workload automation from an IT operations aid to a dynamic, business-driven process. CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) enables organizations to effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage.

CA's job scheduling software, including CA Workload Automation, CA Jobtrac Job Management, and CA Scheduler Job Management, provides the foundation for event-driven automation that aligns workload execution with business policies, optimizes service levels, and boosts operational productivity. Job scheduling is a core component of CA Workload Automation, an integrated set of tools that enable IT organizations to improve control over the dynamic execution of workloads required by today's complex business processes.

The integration of CA Workload Automation and CA Data Center Automation Manager provides the ability to provision computing capacity to meet processing demands and to efficiently accommodate workload execution onto physical and virtualized environments. Customers can dynamically implement systems and processes to handle planned and unplanned workload and transaction bursts, ensuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are not breached.

The IDC (News - Alert) report goes on to say that job scheduling, which includes workload-balancing applications, will experience healthy growth as a result of virtualization sprawl. Over time, IDC expects the line between job scheduling, workload management, virtualization, and datacenter automation to blur as these technologies converge.