CA, HCL Technologies announce strategic partnership
ConvergenceAsia staff
15/11/2007

IT management software company CA and HCL Technologies, one of India's leading global IT Services company, have announced a strategic partnership in which HCL will assume all research and product development connected with CA’s threat management security business. CA will retain all sales and marketing functions.

The goal of the strategic partnership is to grow CA’s threat management business by combining the strengths of both organisations. The partnership covers all threat management products, which include anti-virus, anti-spyware, integrated threat manager (ITM), host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS), secure content manager (SCM), internet security suite, anti-spam and firewall.

This partnership benefits CA and HCL, and, most importantly, the customers who rely on CA’s threat management security products to protect their systems and data, said Shiv Nadar, HCL’s chairman and chief strategy officer.

HCL will be responsible for research, engineering, architecture, technical support, technical writing, and quality assurance. CA’s threat management products will continue to be sold exclusively under the CA brand and through several routes to market with a growing emphasis on channel partners.

The partnership is expected to become operational by year-end, following the signing of a definitive agreement.

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