CA Technologies Provides Same-Day Support for Latest Release of IBM z/OS

CA Technologies Provides Same-Day Support for Latest Release of IBM z/OS

MUMBAI, October 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Company Keeps Mainframe Management Solutions in Lock-Step with Latest IBM Developments

    CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced "Day One" support for IBM z/OS 2.1
[http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos ], which IBM made available today
[http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtypeÊ&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier‰7&letternum=ENUS213-292 ]
.

    CA Technologies support for the latest release of z/OS is vast and includes more than
100 products
[http://www.ca.com/us/Support/mainframe-compatibilites/zOS-Release-Compatibility.aspx ]
across its broad portfolio of disciplines, including workload automation, security,
database management for DB2 for z/OS and IMS for z/OS, Performance and Automation. This
investment in development, testing and research underscores the company's commitment to
its customers and its partnership with IBM.

    "The innovations that CA Technologies and IBM are putting into their mainframe
franchises are helping customers achieve even greater business success on the most
efficient, secure and cost-effective computing platform," said Chris Wilson, Vice
President, Mainframe, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies. "Collectively, we are
investing in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeX_hoqclck ] our technologies to help ensure
our customers can further advance the scalability of their mainframe workloads - including
private clouds and support for social and mobile applications and more."

    "CA has consistently tested and updated its mainframe management software in
conjunction with IBM's development and testing for the benefit of our mutual customers,"
said Greg Lotko, Vice President and Business Line Executive, IBM System z. "With support
for the new IBM zEnterprise EC12 and zEnterprise BC12 platforms, z/OS v2.1 is designed to
offer unmatched availability, scalability, and security to meet the emerging business
challenges of cloud and data analytics, as well as the security demands of mobile and
social applications."

    "The Early Support Program testing I performed of current versions of CA ACF2, CA Disk
Backup and Restore and CA Vantage Storage Resource Manager, with appropriate patching for
z/OS 2.1, went through smoothly and without a problem. We'll be quite confident in moving
to z/OS 2.1," said Thomas Liu, Software Installation and Support, ANZ Bank.

    Please visit the Mainframe Voice blog [http://blogs.ca.com/mainframe-voice ] for more
details on the same-day support. More information on the extensive portfolio of innovative
mainframe solutions offered by CA Technologies can be found at:
http://www.ca.com/us/mainframe.aspx.

    About CA Technologies

    CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers
manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services.
Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate
innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center
to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at http://www.ca.com [http://www.ca.com ].

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