Located in Barcelona, the plan is for CA Labs Europe to promote research and innovation projects in IT management to meet new and future needs in the enterprise.
According to CA Technologies, the aim of the new centre is be a centre of innovation for Europe to generate knowledge creation and to achieve advanced research results.
This cooperation, says the company, will be driven through the Innovation and Technology Centre (CIT-UPC) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech, which it adds is recognised as one of the most advanced technical university environments in Spain and throughout Europe.
Announcing the plans for the centre, Dr. Donald Ferguson, CA Technologies' executive vice president, said that it will conduct advanced research in cloud management solutions that have become so critical to the success of every organization in today’s technology-centric world.
“With its abundance of top technical talent – and with so many superb companies operating in the surrounding area – the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech will provide a tremendously fertile environment for important innovations”, he said.
Plans all for the centre to enable students in their final year of technical or business careers to obtain real-world business experience, as well as provide them with opportunities to work with the company on innovative research.
CA Labs Europe will launch its operations in Barcelona this month, focusing on five projects that will initially involve 10 researchers from CA Technologies and the university, specifically the Data Management Group (DAMA) – a research centre belonging to the Tecnio network of the Government of Catalonia – aiming at research oriented to technology transfer and cooperation with the industry.
The projects will address security and privacy in a cloud environment, cloud forensics, machine translation tools for multi-lingual product localisation, efficient visualisation of very large systems, and new IT business models.