CA Acquires Oblicore

CA, Inc., an independent IT management software company that helps customers optimize IT for better business results, reportedly has acquired privately-held Oblicore, a provider of Service Level Management (SLM) software for enterprises and service providers.

The acquisition is expected to help CA (News - Alert) to strengthen ability to set, measure and optimize service levels to meet business expectations across enterprise and cloud environments.

In a release, CA officials said Oblicore's solutions also extend the company’s capabilities in cloud vendor management and assurance of cloud service quality.

Terms of the deal were however not disclosed.

'Oblicore's business-centric approach gives enterprises and service providers better understanding and control over the quality and value of their IT service portfolio,' said Ajei Gopal, executive vice president of CA's products and technology group.

Gopal said that with Oblicore and the recent acquisitions of NetQoS (News - Alert) and Cassatt, CA is leaping ahead in its ability to help customers optimize IT for better business results and capitalize on the emerging cloud computing opportunity.

'Our success with mutual CA and Oblicore customers shows that together we can help close the gap between business and IT by establishing and measuring service expectations,' said Eric Converse, CEO, Oblicore.

Converse said that service level management is one of the fastest growing segments in the industry. Delivering Oblicore's solutions through CA's thousands of expert sales, services and support professionals will allow the company to bring the benefits of SLM to both CA's vast network of existing customers and a growing global market of new ones, he said.

Earlier this month CA announced that three of its leading mainframe security management software products—CA ACF2 r14, CA Top Secret r14 and CA Compliance Manager for z/OS r1—are officially in evaluation for EAL4+ certification under the Common Criteria International security standard. Common Criteria evaluation of security products is mandated for commercial information security products purchased by the U.S. government for use in national security systems.

The three CA products have cleared the first, pre-evaluation stage of the certification process and have advanced to the “in evaluation” stage where they will be tested for specific security functionality against a comprehensive set of predetermined requirements.

Common Criteria certification is granted when a Common Criteria testing laboratory determines that a product meets a measure of security. The certification addresses product functionality, development environment, documentation and product testing measures.