CA Technologies and UK based IT applications and managed services provider Logicalis have signed a new agreement to offer customers with flexibility and choice for their cloud computing strategies.

Under the new partnership, Logicalis’ customers can now select CA Automation Suite for Clouds from its cloud aggregation toolbox.

Cloud automation aggregates management of all kinds of cloud services, regardless of the cloud location and software or hardware vendor, thereby simplifying the management of cloud services for IT professionals, claims CA Technologies.

CA Technologies Industries, Solutions and Alliances general manager Roger Pilc said: "By offering automated cloud service delivery with CA Automation Suite for Clouds, customers become even more agile, sourcing and deploying new services quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively."

CA Automation Suite for Clouds’ open, modular and scalable fabric-based architecture will help organisations protect existing technology investments and avoid vendor lock-in. Legacy environments, converged infrastructure, virtual fabrics and multiple hypervisors are also supported by the cloud suite.

With the CA Automation Suite for Clouds, customers can accelerate time-to-market for new services and reduce the cost, complexity of delivering hybrid clouds with its pre-integrated and extensible framework and automated provisioning capabilities.

Logicalis Cloud Solutions vice president Mike Martin said: "And for clients that need to manage their own private or hybrid cloud solutions, CA Automation Suite for Clouds offers a solid choice for managing both physical and virtual resources."