CA Unveils Web Services Products

The product, currently in beta, allows solution providers to quickly respond to lowered services levels or interruptions across servers and storage networks. "I don't have to have access to someone else's infrastructure to monitor the services, yet I can manage it," said Dmitri Tcherevik, vice president and director of Web services at CA.

CA CTO Yogesh Gupta demonstrated Unicenter WSDM (Web Services Distributed Management) during his CA World keynote Tuesday in Las Vegas.

CA Chairman and CEO Sanjay Kumar said CA will not actively recruit partners for Unicenter WSDM, but existing Unicenter channel partners will have the ability to sell and support the product.

Tcherevik said Unicenter WSDM is expected to be generally available by the end of the calendar year. The vendor will use the beta program to establish pricing strategy but likely will use a tiered approach based on CA's current FlexSelect program, he said. The software can be deployed in a stand-alone fashion, although additional features are available to those that use it with the Unicenter management console.

CA also introduced several products designed to enable the management of Web services at the infrastructure layer. They include Unicenter Management for .Net Framework version 3.0, a new product that provides monitoring of Web services deployed within .Net; Unicenter Management for J2EE; and Unicenter Management for WebSphere release 3.5 and Unicenter Management for WebLogic release 3.5, which monitor Web services deployed within a J2EE application server.

Finally, CA announced the general availability of eTrust Directory release 4.1, which the company said is the first enterprise UDDI implementation suitable for large-scale deployment and support of Web services. The product can replicate and distribute more than 100 million individual entries of Web services data, according to CA.