CA Will Acquire NetQoS, Inc.

Gains to be in network and systems management, application performance management, cloud-based services

Information Management Online, September 14, 2009

Valerie Valentine

September 14, 2009 – CA, Inc. today announced it will acquire NetQoS Inc., a privately held provider of network performance management and service delivery solutions for $200 million.

NetQoS will extend CA’s capabilities in network and systems management, giving CIOs, network engineers and operations managers better visibility and control of their physical and virtual network and systems environments. Application performance management will enable infrastructures to be application-aware. CA and NetQoS will network and systems traffic management that will be critical to delivering cloud-based services.

Founded ten years ago, NetQoS has more than 1,000 active customers worldwide, including many in the Fortune 100. It is anticipated that a majority of NetQoS’ 250 employees will remain with CA. The all-cash transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the calendar year, pending regulatory approvals.

“NetQoS customers and partners will benefit from CA’s extraordinary development capabilities, outstanding sales force, and global customer support infrastructure,” said Joel Trammell, chief executive officer, NetQoS. “NetQoS’ solutions will strengthen CA’s ability to deliver to its customers service-centric insight into network, systems and application performance - with no visibility gaps.”

Valerie Valentine is senior editor for Information Management.

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