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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

CA boosts outlook, buys Torokina Networks

By | January 25, 2011, 1:48pm PST

CA reported solid third quarter earnings, raised is fiscal year outlook and acquired privately held Torokina Networks to target mobile carriers.

Torokina, based in Sydney, Australia, provides assurance management software to carriers offering 3G, 4G and Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. CA said Torokina will allow it to better monitor both internal and external networks at carriers.

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Separately, CA reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $200 million, or 39 cents a share, on revenue of $1.16 billion, up 4 percent from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were 51 cents a share. Wall Street was looking for earnings of 49 cents a share on revenue of $1.14 billion.

CA CEO Bill McCracken said in a statement that the company is focused on cloud computing and virtualization. CA feels “very good about where we are both from a strategic standpoint and our ability to reach our financial objectives.”

For fiscal 2011, CA said it is expecting revenue growth of 4 percent to 5 percent, up from the previous range of 3 percent to 5 percent. Net income will be between $1.57 a share to $1.67 a share. Non-GAAP fiscal 2011 earnings will be in the range of $1.88 a share to $1.98 a share. Wall Street was looking for $1.93 a share.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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