CA Technologies to Acquire BlazeMeter to Drive Speed and Quality of Application Testing Practices

CA Technologies to Acquire BlazeMeter to Drive Speed
and Quality of Application Testing Practices

Acquisition
to Extend CA’s DevOps Portfolio to Include Easy-to-Use, SaaS-based Continuous
Application Performance Testing Solution Built on Open Source Software

SINGAPORE, September 21,
2016 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA)
today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BlazeMeter, a
leader in open source-based continuous application performance testing. Terms
of the agreement were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close by
year end.

The acquisition
of privately-held BlazeMeter will enable CA Technologies to extend its DevOps
portfolio.BlazeMeter
will seamlessly integrate with CA’s continuous delivery solutions to further
improve testing efficiency and accelerate the deployment of applications.

“BlazeMeter
has redefined performance testing with its simplicity, fast-deployment SaaS
model, and rapid time-to-value,” said Ayman Sayed, president and chief product
officer, CA Technologies. “The acquisition will reinforce our leadership
position in continuous testing, and our efforts to democratize performance
testing as organizations accelerate their DevOps journey to drive speed and
quality in the delivery of new software updates and innovations.”

As
development teams move to Agile and continuous delivery practices to improve
time-to-market of applications, enterprises are struggling to keep up. Testing
speed is the major bottleneck in getting applications released faster. With
BlazeMeter’s solution, developers and performance engineers can test earlier
and often in the application lifecycle to improve their test coverage and avoid
encountering performance problems too close to production. 

“Developers and performance
engineers want to achieve superior test coverage by
using open source tools and tools that can integrate well into the developer
ecosystem,” said Alon
Girmonsky, founder and CEO, BlazeMeter. “Joining forces with CA
Technologies will enable BlazeMeter to continue developing our
technology while enjoying the vast resources of CA Technologies to better serve
our customers.”

BlazeMeter’s
commercial, self-service continuous application performance testing solution is
fully compatible with Apache JMeter™ as well as other open source software
tools like Selenium, Gatling and Locust.

Founded in
2011, BlazeMeter has offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Palo Alto, Calif.