CA Moves to Acquire 3Tera for the Cloud

Jay Fry, CA vice president for the company’s cloud computing business unit, says 3Tera brings a way to easily encapsulate and move enterprise applications to the cloud. Fry said many customers are hesitant about moving applications to the cloud because their legacy applications have many unique extensions that make them difficult to move to the cloud. 3Tera solves that problem by wrapping a layer of encapsulation around those applications that allows them to run at a higher level of abstraction in the cloud.

Fry said the ability to move applications dynamically is going to prove to be critical as cloud computing evolves because IT organizations will not want to be locked into one cloud computing provider. 3Tera makes it easier for them to take advantage of better terms from another cloud computing platform provider should that opportunity arise. In addition, IT organizations building their own internal cloud computing platforms will need tools to move applications to that new environment as well.

3Tera is the latest in a series of next-generation application and systems management acquisitions, including Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore, that CA has made in the last two years. Fry concedes that part of CA’s next big challenge will be integrating all these offerings under a common management framework, but in the meantime he said this acquisition continues to illustrate CA’s commitment to cloud computing an virtualization management.