CA Acquires NetQoS to Optimize Business and IT Service Assurance, Delivery, and Quality of Experience

CA announced November 19, 2009 that it has completed its acquisition of NetQoS, just another proof point of how CA puts the customer first by continuing to enhance its enterprise IT management portfolio with products that are industry-leading, innovative and backed by superior customer support.

CA will continue to sell, maintain and support the existing NetQoS products, and plans to continue innovating and investing in them while keeping customer needs as the top priority. Over time, CA will integrate the NetQoS products with their existing products, combining the best capabilities of both. Additionally, CA will leverage and maintain the talent and employees of NetQoS so they can continue to provide superior products, technical and sales support, and account management.

According to analyst firm Gartner, CA has made significant progress in strategy and execution including implementing business unit accountability, strategic planning as an ongoing process and internal systems to better enable the company to manage its business and to become significantly more customer-centric.

“CA's past account management practices are rarely, if ever, seen anymore. Thus, enterprises should have CA on shortlists, based on their product capabilities and future direction, without concerns over CA becoming overly heavy-handed in negotiations.”
--“Is a revitalized CA worth revisiting?” Gartner

Here are just a few things the industry is saying about this acquisition:

“The value that NetQoS will bring to CA in terms of market leadership in NetFlow solutions as well as NetQoS’s broader capabilities for response time monitoring and packet-based monitoring is substantial…”
-“Net Management Shake-up: CA Acquires NetQoS”, Network World

“Network managers must now focus on how applications perform over the network infrastructures they manage. This trend is written all over CA Inc.'s $200 million acquisition of network and application performance vendor NetQoS Inc.”
- “CA-NetQoS deal: Network management = application performance”, Searchnetworking.com

“The combination of the two is a compelling proposition for network management.”
- “CA Buys NetQoS: A New Network Management Juggernaut?”, Forrester

“The merging of CA and NetQoS assets, said CA, will provide CIOs and network engineers and operations managers better visibility and control of many critical services.”
-“CA Acquires NetQoS for $200 Million”, InformationWeek

For additional information, please visit: