October 2019

Dear Valued Customer,

On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products.

New Analytics and Machine Learning Capabilities

We have a new package of add-on capabilities downloadable from the CA Vantage product download site. CA Mainframe Operational Intelligence is an offering which provides Advanced Analytics and Predictive Intelligence using machine learning techniques such as multivariate alert clustering, infrastructure and application topology visualization, insight sharing to external analytic engines such as Splunk or Digital Operational Intelligence, and support for more data feeds including SMF records. CA Mainframe Operational Intelligence is built on the same machine learning infrastructure and intelligence engine included with CA Vantage but is separately licensed. For more information about CA Mainframe Operational Intelligence, visit www.ca.com/moi or reach out to the CA team for a conversation.

These new CA Vantage capabilities can help your team visually analyze historical performance and utilization of the storage you are managing. You can also leverage adaptive thresholds to alert you when storage metrics begin to trend out of normal operating levels. Together, these capabilities help provide “additional time on the clock” and faster analysis cycles, so that you can remediate potential problems before they become business impacting incidents. New capabilities include:

Visual Analytics: Speed issue triage and root cause analysis by generating scheduled or ad-hoc reports and dashboards to view and monitor performance data. Additionally, you can analyze your historical performance to identify trends over time, or by comparing metrics together. You view the current and historical behavior of metrics in a single view with colored prediction bands that illustrate the decreasing likeliness of metric performance based on history.

Adaptive Thresholding: Proactively warns of abnormal patterns so you can take corrective action sooner. You can improve your mean time to resolution (MTTR) with real-time dynamic notification of abnormal behavior. Machine learning algorithms detect anomalies in near real time when the metric deviates from the historical norm, and trigger automation tools to take action.

For additional detail, you can read more in the CA Vantage documentation: Machine Learning Capabilities.

Release Notes

See the CA Vantage Storage Resource Management Release Notes for important information that may affect your ability to upgrade, install, access, and use the new features and enhancements in this announcement.

Should you need any assistance in implementing this latest release, our CA Technology Services™ experts can help. For more information on CA Technology Services and how you can leverage our experience, contact us through your local CA office, or visit ca.com/services. To connect, learn and share with other customers, join and participate in the CA Vantage User Community at Mainframe Community.

We're proud of our ongoing customer support and maintenance programs that are designed to help our customers succeed, and we believe our latest release is a good example of our efforts.

Thank you again for your business.