CA and HCL Technologies have announced an agreement to establish a strategic partnership in which HCL will assume all research and product development connected with CA’s threat management security business. CA will retain all sales and marketing functions.

The goal of the strategic partnership is to grow CA’s threat management business by combining the strengths of both organisations. HCL and CA will achieve goal alignment and financial targets through revenue sharing.

The partnership covers all threat management products, which include anti-virus, anti-spyware, integrated threat manager (ITM), host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS), secure content manager (SCM), internet security suite, anti-spam and firewall.

“HCL brings to the table over three decades of product engineering heritage and a track record of successful partnerships that have created value. This partnership benefits CA and HCL, and, most importantly, the customers who rely on CA’s threat management security products to protect their systems and data.” said Shiv Nadar, HCL’s chairman and chief strategy officer.

“This unique strategic partnership will enable us to profitably grow CA’s threat business, develop a more aggressive product roadmap for the benefit of our customers, and ultimately gain market share,” said Michael Christenson, CA’s chief operating officer. “We are very excited to have found a global player with the strong reputation and solid depth of experience of HCL to be our strategic partner.”

HCL will be responsible for research, engineering, architecture, technical support, technical writing, and quality assurance.