CA Technologies

CA Technologies

CA Technologies, Inc., formerly CA, Inc. and Computer Associates International, Inc., is one of the largest independent software corporations in the world. "CA" for short, is an American, multinational, publicly held company headquartered in Islandia, New York. The company creates systems software (and previously applications software) that runs in mainframe, distributed computing, virtual machine and Cloud computing environments.

Although the company once sold anti-virus and Internet security commercial software programs for personal computers during its venture into the business-to-consumer ("B2C") market, it remains primarily known for its business-to-business ("B2B") mainframe and distributed (client/server, etc.) information technology ("IT") infrastructure applications since the spin off of their security products into Total Defense. CA Technologies claims that its computer software products are used by a majority of the Forbes Global 2,000 companies.

CA Technologies posted $4.4 billion US$ in revenue for fiscal year 2010 (ending March 31, 2010) and maintains 100 offices in more than 45 countries. The company employs 13,200 people (March 31, 2010), including 5,900 engineers. CA holds more than 400 patents worldwide, and has more than 700 patent applications pending.

In 2010 the company acquired eight companies to support its Cloud strategy: 3Tera, Nimsoft, NetQoS, Oblicore, Cassatt, 4Base Technology, Arcot Systems, and Hyperformix.