CA Technologies has bought Sydney's Torokina Networks, a provider of service assurance management to communications service providers, for an undisclosed sum.
The five-year-old software development company specialised in helping service providers manage demand for mobile services like email, video and social networking.
Torokina's software provided a single "pane of glass" interface for service providers looking to manage network performance and faults, Chris Gibbs, the former vice president of worldwide sales and operations at Torokina Networks and now a vice president of solution sales for CA Technologies, told CRN.
Torokina were an existing CA partner. A combined product was already available as a result of the partnership.
For CA, the buy extended its service assurance strategy to application performance management, infrastructure management and service operations management.
Staff changes
CA has transferred Torokina's seven sales and pre-sales staff to the vendor's service assurance business in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde.
Torokina's four engineers would be relocated to CA's US headquarters in March.
Silent partner and founder Kevin Vardy retired in December.
Financial results
The acquisition was announced on the same day that CA revealed its third quarter revenue, which grew 5 percent to $US1.17 billion in constant currency.
Three percent of this growth was organic and 2 percent was a result of acquisitions.
In constant currency, revenue grew 7 percent in
Profit (GAAP income), however, was down 17 percent in constant currency terms to $US200 million.
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