With an eye toward cloud management, CA announced it is laying out $200 mill for NetQoS, a privately held company that offers solutions for network flow monitoring, unified communications management, and network response time analysis.

Here are a few takes on what the acquisition, the largest since CA took over Wily three years ago, means to it's application performance management offerings:

• CA Acquires NetQoS For $200 Million (InformationWeek)
  

• CA To Acquire NetQoS For $200 Million (ChannelWeb)

• CA to Acquire NetQoS for $200m (SOA World)
  
• CA Picks Up NetQoS for $200 Million in Cash (TechCrunch)