Computer Associates (CA) has announced comprehensive support for IBM System z9 and associated IBM software across its multiple mainframe management product lines.

CA says that its management software solutions will help System z9 users to leverage this new technology to meet their evolving business needs, including delivery of on-demand IT services.

"IBM is about delivering value to customers, about helping them to respond quickly to market changes that may impact their businesses so they can better serve the needs of their clients," says Randy Daniel, director of marketing, IBM eServer zSeries. "Working relationships that we have built with solution providers like CA enhance our ability to offer products that can help our clients compete and win in their chosen markets."

CA offers a wide range of modular mainframe software solutions that are designed to enable IT organizations to optimize utilization of data center resources, reduce total cost of ownership, leverage existing investments, maintain alignment of utilization with business value, and quickly respond to changing enterprise computing requirements across the enterprise.

"CA"s large enterprise customers are planning to take immediate advantage of the new IBM System z9 to address their expanding business technology requirements," says Russell M. Artzt, executive vice-president of products at CA.