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July 27, 2010

Nimsoft Extends Unified Monitoring, Metering To Elastic IT Services

CAMPBELL, Calif., July 27, 2010 -- Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) , today announced new "see as you go--pay as you go" capabilities of its industry-leading, unified monitoring solutions that enable service providers to bring elastic IT offerings to market.

Available as part of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) and Nimsoft On Demand offerings, the extended feature set includes real-time usage metering, elastic portlets and unified service dashboards. Service providers and IT staffs can now automatically create and deliver monitoring data and alerts that expand and contract with cloud and virtualized service delivery, while tracking and archiving usage in real time for auditing and billing purposes.

"Nimsoft is well-known for its flexible, scalable approach to monitoring internal and external cloud services," said Albert Lee, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates. "These real-time usage metering capabilities and customized dashboards look to be a practical development for IT administrators to monitor and manage infrastructure and services, in line with the continued growth of the 'pay as you go' model we are seeing increasingly embraced across the industry."

Elastic IT services are highly appealing to customers who want their costs to dynamically align with their actual utilization. These new Nimsoft capabilities simplify the real-time monitoring and management of infrastructures that service providers use to deliver elastic IT services--enabling them to automate the presentation of monitoring dashboards to clients and flexibly bill for their monitoring services.

"Our ISV partners are extending their on-premise enterprise application products to include on-demand SaaS ones," said Marty Gauvin, CEO and president of Virtual Ark, an international managed services company. "With these new features, Nimsoft On Demand allows us to adjust monitoring services depending on our clients' dynamic needs. This enables us to align our costs closely to revenues from end users buying the SaaS solutions we provide through our ISV partners, thereby significantly reducing both the risk and cost of delivering an on-demand SaaS version of their traditional enterprise applications. The enhanced Nimsoft solution will help us continue to provide premiere service levels and improve both our top and bottom lines."

Key enhancements to NMS and Nimsoft On Demand include:

-- Real-time usage metering - Automated, granular reporting and usage
      monitoring enables service providers to bill their clients
      accordingly. Usage monitoring and metering is viewable by both service
      providers and clients 24/7 on the Nimsoft unified monitoring portal,
      which can integrate seamlessly into any other portal. Usage metering
      updates occur at hourly intervals.

-- Elastic portlets - Dynamic display portlets automatically expand and
      contract with the monitored IT Infrastructure, displaying key
      monitoring data. These portlets are reusable across service provider
      clients and IT organizations.

-- Unified Service Dashboards - Reusable and automatically updated, these
      customized dashboards are easily constructed by aggregating elastic
      portlets, usage metering data and other information. NMS and Nimsoft
      On Demand come pre-packaged with out-of-the-box service dashboards for
      VMware® health and performance, Amazon Web Services(TM) and overall
      data center performance. Dashboard views can be tightly coupled with
      the service provider's service catalog, including cloud-based
      services.

"Virtualization and the implementation of public and private clouds are driving a major shift in the way IT services are delivered," said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of the Nimsoft business unit at CA Technologies. "Our 'see as you go?pay as you go' unified monitoring solutions enable IT staffs and service providers to better understand and manage these new delivery models?without requiring incremental investments, re-learning of technology or implementation of new infrastructure requirements."

The new unified monitoring capabilities are now available for both NMS and Nimsoft On Demand as features of the solution, to new and existing customers alike, at no additional cost.

About Nimsoft

Nimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments - from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

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Source: CA Technologies

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