CA Technologies teams up on grants project with Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Melbourne
Announcement posted by CA Technologies 19 May 2017
Research to focus on service virtualisation and machine learning
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA), in partnership with Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Melbourne, has been awarded an Australian Research Council grant for a new project focused on service virtualisation and machine learning.
The three-year project combines the domain expertise of CA’s research arm – CA Strategic Research – in service virtualisation and predictive analysis, with the world leading expertise of Swinburne University in software engineering and The University of Melbourne’s in machine learning.
The project follows as an extension of the successful service virtualisation grant project between CA and Swinburne in 2014, which focused on allowing a service to be virtualised in the absence of expert knowledge and explicit documentation.
Today’s project is focused on three new extensions with the aim of increasing the reliability of software deployment and reducing the delivery time for software applications from development to release.
The extensions include:
“Only about a third of applications for research grants are successful and this grant is an acknowledgement of our commitment to the area of service virtualisation and what we’ve been able to offer the industry to date. We’re glad to be able to embark on this new journey and hope the result is new DevOps solutions that help our customers more efficiently and effectively run their organisations,” said Steve Versteeg, vice president of Research at CA Strategic Research, Melbourne.
The research team comprises four professors from across the two universities, including Professor Jun Han, Associate Professor Jean-Guy Schneider, Professor Chengfei Liu and Professor Chris Leckie, four PhD researchers, one research fellow and a team of domain experts from CA Technologies. The grant comprises financial and in-kind funding from CA Technologies, the Australian Research Council, Swinburne University and The University of Melbourne.
Jun Han, Professor at Swinburne University of Technology said, “Our previous service virtualisation grant project with CA aided product development to the point of being included in new service virtualisation products that are now being sold to customers across the world. That’s a compelling prospect and our aim is to achieve similar success.”
Christopher Leckie, Professor at The University of Melbourne said, “We’ve worked with CA Strategic Research many times on grants projects over the years and there have been some extremely compelling outputs. I’m confident that our combined effort will result in new developments that become commercially available via CA products.”
CA Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Melbourne, have been partnering in research since 2006.
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The three-year project combines the domain expertise of CA’s research arm – CA Strategic Research – in service virtualisation and predictive analysis, with the world leading expertise of Swinburne University in software engineering and The University of Melbourne’s in machine learning.
The project follows as an extension of the successful service virtualisation grant project between CA and Swinburne in 2014, which focused on allowing a service to be virtualised in the absence of expert knowledge and explicit documentation.
Today’s project is focused on three new extensions with the aim of increasing the reliability of software deployment and reducing the delivery time for software applications from development to release.
The extensions include:
- Using machine learning to automatically derive a service virtualisation model - CA is the first organisation in the world to adapt machine learning for service virtualisation. By using machine learning, development teams can write software without needing all the other systems within their environment. This will ultimately increase software development speed and reliability.
- Bringing the human back into the loop – whilst machine learning has its many strengths, trying to completely replace humans means that there can be errors that then must be fixed by a human. The objective of this project is to effectively combine machine learning and human input so that the two are working harmoniously.
- Modelling the whole network – whilst previous service virtualisation projects have focused on modelling single services in isolation, this grant project expands the scope to consider interdependencies between services – i.e. allowing them to talk to each other.
“Only about a third of applications for research grants are successful and this grant is an acknowledgement of our commitment to the area of service virtualisation and what we’ve been able to offer the industry to date. We’re glad to be able to embark on this new journey and hope the result is new DevOps solutions that help our customers more efficiently and effectively run their organisations,” said Steve Versteeg, vice president of Research at CA Strategic Research, Melbourne.
The research team comprises four professors from across the two universities, including Professor Jun Han, Associate Professor Jean-Guy Schneider, Professor Chengfei Liu and Professor Chris Leckie, four PhD researchers, one research fellow and a team of domain experts from CA Technologies. The grant comprises financial and in-kind funding from CA Technologies, the Australian Research Council, Swinburne University and The University of Melbourne.
Jun Han, Professor at Swinburne University of Technology said, “Our previous service virtualisation grant project with CA aided product development to the point of being included in new service virtualisation products that are now being sold to customers across the world. That’s a compelling prospect and our aim is to achieve similar success.”
Christopher Leckie, Professor at The University of Melbourne said, “We’ve worked with CA Strategic Research many times on grants projects over the years and there have been some extremely compelling outputs. I’m confident that our combined effort will result in new developments that become commercially available via CA products.”
CA Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Melbourne, have been partnering in research since 2006.
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) creates software that fuels transformation for companies and enables them to seize the opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart of every business in every industry. From planning, to development, to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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Copyright © 2017 CA. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.