How much did CA pay to acquire the privately held NetQoS?”
CA to Acquire NetQoS, Inc. in $200 Million All-Cash Transaction Deal Will Help Enterprise IT Organizations and Service Providers Optimize Business and IT Service Assurance, Delivery, and Quality of Experience ISLANDIA, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas, September 14, 2009 – CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), the world’s leading independent IT management software company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held NetQoS® Inc., a leading provider of network performance management and service delivery solutions, for $200 million. “CA offers the industry’s strongest and most complete service assurance and delivery portfolio,” said Ajei Gopal, executive vice president of CA’s Products and Technology Group. “With the addition of the NetQoS network flow monitoring, unified communications management, and response time analytic network solutions, CA will further strengthen its ability to help enterprise IT organizations and service providers deliver reliable, flexible and cost
CA is acquiring NetQoS, a privately held developer of network performance management and service delivery software, for $200 million in cash, CA said Monday. The acquisition will help CA expand its line of network and systems management tools for cloud computing. CA said it expected to complete the acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approvals, by the end of the calendar year. Austin, Texas-based NetQoS offers software for network flow monitoring, unified communications management, and network response time analysis. CA said NetQoS’ Performance Center software could be combined with the CA eHealth Network Performance Manager and CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager products to provide CIOs, network engineers and IT operations managers with better visibility into, and control of, their physical and virtual IT systems and networks. The NetQoS product might also be linked with CA Wily Application Performance Management software for monitoring application performance.
