Leading analyst firm Gartner has positioned CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager solution in the Leaders Quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis (ECA).* CA Technologies was placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute.

The infrastructure management solution from CA Technologies, a key component of its Service Assurance portfolio, helps enterprises, government agencies and service providers avoid the risk and cost of business service interruptions and failures by integrating service, fault and configuration management into a single tool to provide better IT service at a lower cost.

According to the report, “ECA products help IT operations personnel contend with the deluge of events that comes in from the IT infrastructure by eliminating duplicate event signals, filtering events according to operational or business priorities, and analyzing events to determine their root causes. The goals are to improve the mean time to isolate and repair problems, and to prioritize IT support efforts according to business process value.”

“Our customers have a complex mandate to simultaneously streamline IT operations management, improve the end-user experience and focus on business service performance,” said Christopher Cook, general manager, Service Assurance, CA Technologies. “To help our customers meet those demands and use IT to more effectively enable the business, we continue to strengthen our core competency in event correlation and root cause analysis while expanding our focus to execute a broader Service Assurance strategy.”