The formation of a global virtualization management partner community comprised of leading reseller, cloud, and technology partners has been announced by CA. The CA Partner Community for Business Transformation Through Virtualization Management is designed to enable partners to improve the efficiency, quality, and agility of their customers' virtualized environments. Empowered Networks and VMware are foundation members included.

CA, through the community, will work with strategic reseller and technology partners to deliver virtualization management solutions and business best practices that enable both enterprises and service providers to transform their physical and virtual infrastructure from a cost center into an enabler of innovation and business growth. To meet the critical needs of their customers, using virtualization management as a business transformation driver, CA will also work closely with cloud computing partners.

The CA Partner Community for Business Transformation Through Virtualization Management empowers CA's partners to address the pre-production and production scale challenges their customers face in deploying virtualization infrastructure, applications and services. CA will work through the community with partners to deliver strategic, high-value services that will streamline the expansion and efficiency of customers' production environments in critical areas such as capacity planning and modeling, configuration management (server, application), data center consolidation, green IT planning, application staging, ITIL process creation and standardization, next-generation data center (NGDC) design, performance monitoring and maintenance, policy creation and mapping, run-book automation, SOA architecture build-out, and virtualization management best practices.