CA Technologies is the latest company to launch a cloud marketplace to help end-customers and channel partners find SaaS and other types of cloud services providers. The CA cloyd marketplace, called Cloud Commons, will include custom landing page storefronts for service providers later this year.
CA mentioned Cloud Commons at MSP Symposium, a CA event that attracted nearly 100 managed services providers (MSPs) in Miami this week. In some ways, the Cloud Commons marketplace resembles Apple’s App Store — though CA’s focus is enterprise cloud applications.
According to a CA’s website, CA is positioning Cloud Commons for the following opportunities:
- Developers, service providers, and software vendors can post cloud solutions, packaged services, and software for sale.
- Service providers can purchase cloud software from vendors to bolster their service portfolios.
- Enterprises have the choice to download purchases to their private cloud, or have a solution hosted by one of Cloud Commons service provider partners.
CA Cloud Commons emerges amid growing competition in the so-called cloud broker and cloud aggregator markets. Several of the major distributors — Tech Data, Ingram Micro and Synnex, for instance — have launched online stores, portals and other web destinations to help channel partners source and aggregate cloud applications.
The CA Cloud Commons effort seeks to build upon CA’s apparent momentum in the cloud services and managed services market. The company last week announced 10 percent quarterly annual growth, fueled at least in part by AppLogic, Nimsoft and other cloud- and MSP-centric software platforms.
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