CA Technologies, which has changed its name from CA Inc., has launched a series of cloud computing products and services at CA World this week in Las Vegas. Cloud Commons — a collaborative community and website for IT professionals, which will help them figure out how to best use cloud computing — has been unveiled by CA Technologies. Among the website’s many features is an initiative, led by two Carnegie Mellon University researchers, for an industry-wide, globally accepted measure for calculating the benefits and risks of cloud-computing services. The researchers are seeking industry involvement via a consortium being formed with researchers from other educational institutions, end user organizations and technology providers, who have expertise in measuring and managing IT-enabled services.