(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In its continued investment in virtualization and cloud management, CA Technologies (www.ca.com) has announced the acquisition of privately-held virtualization and cloud infrastructure consulting firm 4Base Technology (ca.com/4base).
According to CA’s Thursday announcement, 4Base Technology will help customers more easily transition to the cloud by providing strategic advice and implementation expertise to help them move more quickly, pragmatically and successfully to the cloud. Under the terms of the deal, 4Base will become the CA Virtualization and Cloud Strategy group, which will function as a competency practice within the CA Services division.
In a letter sent Thursday to partners, CA noted that this acquisition could help expand existing partner relationships. “CA Technologies and 4Base share a common vision for the future of cloud computing, and we are excited about the opportunity the joining of 4Base joining CA Services will bring to our partners and customers,” the company wrote.
CA services general manager Adam Elster said that the company will benefit from 4Base’s experience in transitioning businesses from virtualization to the cloud.
“As CA Technologies expands its role as a strategic partner and advisor to customers on the journey from virtualization to cloud computing, we are investing in both the software and consulting services needed to achieve substantial business results. 4Base has worked with hundreds of customers across a broad spectrum of virtualization and cloud technologies, including CA Technologies, Cisco, EMC, NetApp and VMware. Through this experience, 4Base has developed a broad base of skills, knowledge and experience that will play a critical role in CA Technologies ability to help customers quickly plan, adopt and execute transformative strategies and technologies that make their business more agile.”
CA will offer customers with a comprehensive solution – consisting of both products and services – designed to help them fully realize the agility and operational benefits that can be derived from virtualization and cloud computing. And because virtualization and cloud computing are still in a fluid and evolving state, CA strives to provide customers with access to proven approaches, skills and experience as they begin or continue on the virtualization-to-cloud journey to help reduce risk and accelerate returns.
“Enterprises have high interest in virtualization and cloud computing, but suffer from a lack of proven best practices,” 4Base principal and co-founder Paul Camacho said in a statement. “We are thrilled that CA Technologies chose 4Base to bring validated on-site experience, proven approaches and highly skilled resources to its customers. We look forward to helping new and existing CA Technologies customers eliminate VM stall and develop a dynamic IT service supply chain that transforms IT from a cost center to a business enabler, increases business agility, reduces IT costs, and increases quality of service.”
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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