CA Technologies announces new AI-powered software and intelligent automation

CA Technologies has announced new, modern mainframe solutions that help organizations gain insights to predict and remediate performance issues automatically, protect customer privacy, drive agility and decrease costs. With CA Mainframe Operational Intelligence, CA Trusted Access Manager for Z and CA Dynamic Capacity Intelligence, companies can leverage analytics and machine-learning to increase digital trust with their customers.

“It’s critical to lay the foundation of digital trust with 80 per cent of the world’s corporate data residing on mainframes that run 68 per cent of the world’s production workloads,” said Ashok Reddy, General Manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies. “Digital trust is essential to enable enterprises to verify people, protect data and assure app integrity and performance. Through AI and machine learning powered intelligent automation, CA’s new mainframe solutions enable increased insights across broader sets of data. This will help businesses manage retiring skills through intelligent automation, while increasing security, scalability and flexibility on their current platforms, including IBM Z, in a secure and trusted environment.”

CA Mainframe Operational Intelligence uses machine learning and automation to capture patterns, triggering dynamic and reliable remediation. The solution builds on anomaly detection so users can predict issues sooner and automate resolution before service level agreements (SLAs) are impacted.

Available with an IBM System Management Facilities (SMF) Adapter, customers can now absorb additional data directly from the IBM Z environment to gather intelligence from mainframe data outside of CA products. This is the key because when it comes to machine learning and intelligence, the wider the set of data, the more accurate the predictions.

“Supporting a variety of new business initiatives, our IT environment continues to grow more complex,” said Seth Miller, Director, Enterprise Server Resource Planning and Automation, AIG. “We are looking to incorporate machine-learning and intelligence to simplify and improve our IT operations to further reduce costs while providing an outstanding customer experience.”

Almost two billion data records around the world were lost or stolen by cyberattacks in the first half of 2017, according to the latest findings by digital security provider Gemalto, and of the 65 companies evaluated, the breach cost shareholders over $52.40 billion in total.

To help manage risk and maintain customer trust, CA is boosting enterprise security with CA Trusted Access Manager for Z, the only mainframe solution on the market which enables security leaders to restrict and monitor all activity by privileged identities on the mainframe. Organizations can better manage their data and address security and compliance needs with the CA mainframe security suite that includes CA Data Content Discovery and CA Compliance Event Manager that covers new classes of data, new US and European regulatory requirements.