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CA and NetApp on Tuesday announced an extension of their multi-year solutions partnership to develop management solutions for public and private cloud environments. As a result, the companies are integrating CA's virtualization, automation and service assurance offerings with NetApp's storage management solutions. The unified solutions will further help customers drive operational efficiencies through improved business agility, productivity and service quality, while also helping to lower costs and reduce risks that are associated with virtualization and cloud-based infrastructures.

"Our expanded solutions partnership with NetApp will not only bolster CA's storage management capabilities, it also will help ensure CA's continued ability to deliver end-to-end infrastructure management -- an important capability as our customers begin using public and private cloud services to drive business growth," said Tom Kendra, executive vice president of Enterprise Products and Solutions at CA. "These integrations will help customers create, deploy and manage cloud-based business services across multiple infrastructure elements, including storage."

"Integrating NetApp storage and data management solutions with CA's virtualization, automation and service assurance solutions will help customers better manage the complex IT environments that support their cloud services," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances for NetApp. "Our mutual customers will now be able to leverage a single solution to provision and manage all of the infrastructure components that comprise their cloud service offerings, simplifying their data center environment while improving operational and cost efficiencies."