CA Cloud Solution (formerly Cassatt Active Response) is for customers looking to manage their data centers in a more efficient, dynamic and responsive manner, and to make better use of all hardware and software assets. At its core, CA Cloud Solution software provides real-time workload, server and network repurposing. All actions are policy-based (i.e. time, events, capacity, demand). The software is capable of managing multi-vendor hardware and software, and without use of any additional software layers. Use of CA Cloud Solution provides a number of possible implementations, including power efficiency improvements; higher application availability; workload management; capacity additions on-demand, physical and virtual application management, and utility computing infrastructures. For more information, see http://www.ca.com/us/end-to-end-management.aspx.

CA Cloud Solution can be used in conjunction with the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to make more efficient use of data center capital while saving administrative time. CA Cloud Solution software continually allocates/reallocates bare-metal hardware--even across different data center networks. Simultaneously, it can communicate with network switches and F5's BIG-IP LTM to continually update newly-assigned Virtual IP addresses (VIPs), guaranteeing balanced loads across the newly-allocated hardware. This level of integration eliminates the need to manually update network and load balancer configurations when new hardware is brought on/off line in real-time.