CA, HCL Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership

The goal of the strategic partnership is to grow CA's threat management business by combining the strengths of both organizations. HCL and CA will achieve goal alignment and financial targets through revenue sharing. The annual revenue of CA's threat management security business is in excess of U.S. $100 million.

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.

"HCL brings to the table over three decades of product engineering heritage and a track record of successful partnerships that have created value. 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.

"This unique strategic partnership will enable us to profitably grow CA's threat business, develop a more aggressive product roadmap for the benefit of our customers, and ultimately gain market share," said Michael Christenson, CA's chief operating officer. "We are very excited to have found a global player with the strong reputation and solid depth of experience of HCL to be our strategic partner."

HCL will be responsible for research, engineering, architecture, technical support, technical writing, and quality assurance. All affected employees outside of European Union countries will be offered employment with HCL. Within the EU countries, CA will start the consultation process with the affected employees.

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.-CA news