CA Elected to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Open Cloud Standards Incubator...

CA Elected to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Open Cloud
Standards Incubator Leadership Board
Appointment of Paul Lipton Expands CA's Role in Open Standards and the
Cloud-Connected Enterprise

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today
announced that it was elected to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
Open Cloud Standards Incubator Leadership Board. The company will be
represented by Paul Lipton, vice president of Industry Standards and Open
Source.

"We welcome CA to the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator Leadership Board,"
said Winston Bumpus, DMTF president. "The election is a reflection of CA's
continued leadership role in the DMTF's efforts to develop a set of
informational specifications that enable interoperability between enterprise
computing and cloud service providers as well as its other contributions to
the DMTF."

"Election to the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator Leadership Board is
representative of CA's expanding commitment to support management
interoperability for cloud systems," said Lipton. "DMTF is one of the most
important standards development organizations in the industry, with activity
that closely aligns with CA's bold vision for management of the
cloud-connected enterprise. We are pleased to join other industry leaders on
the DMTF Board, such as Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and VMware, in the establishment
of open standards for enabling interoperability between private clouds at both
the infrastructure and platform levels."

Lipton has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for more than
20 years. Lipton also serves on the Board of Directors of the Distributed
Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF), the Eclipse Foundation, the Object
Management Group (OMG), and the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards) Board of Directors. He is a Microsoft Most
Valuable Professional, a Sun Java Champion, and a founding member of the CA
Council for Technical Excellence.

For information about CA's solutions for managing cloud computing
environments, please visit http://www.ca.com/cloud.

About the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator

The Open Cloud Standards Incubator was formed as part of the DMTF Standards
Incubation process, which enables like-minded DMTF members to work together
and produce informational specifications that can later be fast-tracked
through the standards development process. The incubation process is designed
to foster and expedite open, collaborative, exploratory technical work that
complements the DMTF mission to lead the development, adoption and promotion
of interoperable management initiatives and standards.

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