CA Technologies, formerly known as
Computer Associates International, Inc. and
CA, Inc., is one of the
largest independent software corporations in the world. CA for short, is an American,
multinational,
publicly held company headquartered in
New York, 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
Fortune Global 500 companies, government organizations, educational institutions, and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide."