CA today announced an enhanced solution for integrated infrastructure availability and performance management for enterprises, government agencies and service providers. CA Spectrum(R) Infrastructure Manager r9.1 and CA eHealth(R) Performance Manager r6.1.1 will address key business service requirements for managing fast-growing virtualized environments, networked application flows, IP telephony applications, MPLS network services, and carrier-class service delivery platforms. The new versions of CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager and CA eHealth Performance Manager will be available in 2009...

CA eHealth Performance Manager will also add new proactive performance management for IP telephony applications based on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Siemens HiPath(TM) voice systems. This new capability will provide automated data collection, performance analysis, and a rich set of reports for both the infrastructure as well as the IP telephony application. This will provide customers with a single solution that manages both the converged network and the unified communications application, helping to reduce the management tool footprint and administrative overhead.   In addition to new systems and IP telephony management capabilities, CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager and CA eHealth Performance Manager will also have new capability to integrate with the CA eHealth Database Performance Option to proactively manage the availability and performance of DB2(R) for Linux, UNIX and Windows(R), as well as Oracle(R), Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) and Sybase(R) databases.   Radius and SAML authentication support will expand CA eHealth Performance Manager's security capabilities. This will enable enterprises and managed service providers to extend authentication mechanisms for customer self-service and performance reporting access across their organizations.