CA continues vendor shopping spree

Software vendor acquires records management vendor MDY Group

Computer Associates (CA) has acquired enterprise records management software vendor MDY Group for an undisclosed sum.

As a result CA claims the acquisition will help its customers more easily fulfill their company-wide compliance, corporate governance and legal discovery requirements.

Bob Davis, general manager of CA’s storage management business unit said: “Effectively managing and protecting diverse and ever-changing information assets is a significant challenge for any enterprise. With this acquisition, CA is providing customers with an even more compelling and complete solution for mitigating risk and streamlining information assets.”

CA will market and support the full suite of MDY products and services and is planning to integrate MDY’s records management technology with CA Message Manager to offer end-users a solution for managing email and other business documents.

Galina Datskovsky, chief executive of MDY, who is joining CA as senior vice president for BrightStor said: “CA and MDY have long histories of helping customers effectively manage information that’s distributed across diverse platforms and applications.

“We’re excited about becoming part of the CA family and applying our technology in an integrated manner with customers’ broader enterprise IT management strategies,” he added.