The company formerly known as Computer Associates and more recently known as CA will now be known as CA Technologies.

The software and services giant said it decided on the new brand to better reflect its market position and proposition.

The firm is planning to extend its marketing push to promote its new name.

The news came from CA Technologies World conference.

Other news from the Las Vegas conference included the results of a survey which revealed that European organisations are more confident about Security for Cloud Computing Users than their US counterparts.

The international survey commissioned by CA, "Security for Cloud Computing Users", found 44 percent of European respondents and 55 percent of U.S. ones are not confident that they know all cloud computing applications, platforms, or infrastructure services in use today.

U.S. organisations are more likely to deploy business-critical applications, IT platforms, and IT infrastructure services in the cloud, than their European counterparts while fifty-seven percent of European respondents believe their organisations are vigilant in conducting audits or assessments of cloud computing resources before deployment, compared with only 36 percent of U.S. organisations.

The survey also reveals that 44 percent of European respondents and 55 percent of U.S. ones are not confident that they know all the cloud computing applications, platforms, or infrastructure services in use today.

This is compelling evidence that organisations are moving applications and data to the cloud without taking the necessary steps to ensure the information they put there is secure.

The surveywas conducted by the Ponemon Institute,
Fourteen percent of U.S. business-critical applications reside in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) models, against 11 percent for Europe.

And 13 percent of U.S. business-critical applications are based on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) models, compared with nine percent for European organisations.

It is also evident from the research that the 'consumerisation of IT' causes security experts to be excluded from the cloud evaluation and vetting process and this in turn causes a lack of confidence among IT practitioners.

In his keynote speech Bill McCracken, chief executive officer of CA Technologies told 7,000 attendees that the technology industry inflection point will virtualization and cloud computing drive businesses 'to adapt to rapidly changing market and customer needs.

We will be right there to help our customers gain a competitive advantage as this critical inflection point in our industry takes hold."

McCracken said that CA Technologies has embarked on an aggressive investment program to gain leadership in the key markets that underlie its growth strategy-identity and access management, IT management as a service, virtualization management and cloud computing-while continuing to grow its market-leading mainframe business.

"The name CA Technologies acknowledges our past and points to our future as a leader in delivering the technologies that will revolutionize the way IT powers business agility," said McCracken.

"We are executing on a bold strategy, where IT resources -- from the cloud to the mainframe and everything in between -- are delivered with unprecedented levels of flexibility."