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Computer Associates International, Inc. announced support for its on-demand Web services management strategy from leading industry partners, enabling customers to ensure the performance and integrity of a wide range of on-demand business systems. BEA Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS), Collaxa, DataPower Technology Inc., JBoss Group LLC, Microsoft Corp., Mindreef Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) and Systinet Corp. are providing solutions designed to integrate with and complement CA's own management technologies, including its newly-released Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM). "CA's vision of highly-reliable Web services unifying IT as an on-demand utility is clearly gaining traction," said Dmitri Tcherevik, vice president of Web services at CA. "We will continue to work with many industry leaders to give customers the ability to fully leverage information resources across and beyond the enterprise." Announcements from CA partners include: -- Collaxa: Integration with Unicenter WSDM to provide discovery, configuration and management of BPEL processes running on the Collaxa BPEL server. -- DataPower: Embedded in-band Unicenter WSDM-compliant monitoring into DataPower's Web services security and XML processing hardware. -- JBoss: Native Unicenter WSDM observer for the JBoss open source application server platform. -- Mindreef: Integration of Mindreef's SOAPscope diagnostic system with Unicenter WSDM's SOAP fault alerting mechanism. -- Systinet: A Unicenter WSDM-compliant observer plug-in for Systinet's Web Applications and Services Platform (WASP). CA is also working with BEA Systems, Microsoft and Sun to help ensure that mutual customers can natively monitor and manage Web services deployed using their respective platforms. CA's end-to-end management solutions help customers build enterprise-class reliability and security into their new deployments, empowering dynamic allocation of infrastructure resources to Web services and other critical applications driven by changing business requirements: -- Unicenter WSDM automatically discovers, tests and monitors J2EE and .NET Web services - enabling IT organizations to closely track a full range of performance indicators and rapidly respond to service interruptions. -- Unicenter Management for WebSphere and Unicenter Management for WebLogic provide in-depth visibility and control over the performance of the underlying application infrastructure. -- eTrust Directory provides the first truly enterprise-ready UDDI implementation suitable for large-scale Web services deployments. In addition, CA is actively contributing to Web services standards efforts, including numerous working groups under OASIS, W3C, WS-I, DMTF, GGF and the Liberty Alliance. "Vendors with experience in managing heterogeneous enterprise environments are better prepared for the challenges of managing Web services, which typically have a wide range of complex infrastructure- and software-level dependencies," said Nick Gall, senior vice president and principal analyst, Technology Research Services, META Group, Inc. "Organizations seeking to ensure the manageability of their emerging Web services would be well advised to select vendors who work with a wide range of partners and rigorously comply with industry standards."