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CA Layers Nimsoft Into Cloud Computing Mix

All-Cash Deal for Cloud Monitoring Software Extends Strategy

CA continued its meteorological adventures by acquiring Nimsoft for $350 million in cash. Add this to its recent purchases of Cassatt, NetQoS, Oblicore, and 3Tera. Nimsoft stratifies the performance and availability monitoring layer for "emerging enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)," according to a CA release, and "extends CA's ability to meet the unique IT management needs of (these companies),  which are playing leading roles in the growth of cloud computing," said CA CEO William McCracken.

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CA has targeted the emerging enterprise sector--which it defines as organizations with annual revenues between $300 million and $2 billion--as a part of town that will account for about a quarter of its market space by 2013.Thus, the acquisition not only potentially enhances CA's Cloud Computing vision, but will serve to wean it off its high dependence on very large customers.

Whether this is an intelligent strategy will be proven over time. To me, part of its vision is incredibly intelligent in that it also targets "emerging national economies," and as such agrees with many of the things I've been writing about recently.

As Chris O'Malley, CA's EVP, Cloud Products and Solutions Business Line, puts it,  "these markets will further expand our global leadership in IT management and complement our existing strength with large enterprise customers."

Nimsoft's Unified Monitoring software "is designed to allow MSPs complete visibility into the performance and availability of their customers' business applications across both internal and external IT infrastructures," according to the company. Nimsoft has already developed monitoring and reporting solutions for customers such as Google Apps for Business, The Rackspace Cloud, Amazon Web Services, EC2, and Salesforce.com.

 

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Roger Strukhoff holds a BA from Knox College, Certificate in Technical Communications from UC-Berkeley, and MBA from CSU-Hayward. He won a 2009 "Stevie" American Business Award for producing the best publication in its category. He is a former Publisher at IDG and Guest Lecturer at MIT. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, but can also be found at www.twitter.com/strukhoff

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