Outsourcing service provider ACS Inc has lined up CA Inc to provide it with applications performance and security management and governance software in a bid to deliver leaner IT services to customers.
The multi-year agreement will address the operational efficiency of data centre and distributed systems.
The aim is for more effective management of energy consumption, the companies said, and the deal will stretch to the cloud as new services come on stream.
Over time ACS will deploy energy and sustainability management, project and portfolio management, application performance management, infrastructure management, workload automation, storage and recovery management and governance, risk and compliance management.