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Cassatt's Bill Coleman: Changing the economics of business

Cassatt's Bill Coleman: Changing the economics of businessAin't never gonna happen.Ask yourself why ASPs never took off like they were evangelized as the second coming five years ago. Follow the $$$. There's no storm here, just old school money.

Tags: Scripting languages, Bill Coleman, Cassatt Corp., Changing

Discussion threads 2005-11-01

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CA picks up Cassatt assets; Bolsters cloud portfolio

CA said Tuesday that it has acquired the key assets from Cassatt, which makes software that automates data centes. Cassatt had been a hot start-up based in San Jose, but recently collapsed.   In a statement, CA said the deal will allow it to bolster its cloud...

Tags: Asset, Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Computer Associates International Inc., Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Poking for holes in Silicon Valley's future

Every time Silicon Valley goes through a downturn we see stories about how it is losing its lead. Here is the BBC with a long story headlined: "Silicon Valley crown up for grabs. It has one source to make this claim, Tom Siebel, the retired founder of Siebel Systems. ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Leadership, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Failure in Silicon Valley and the guild of entrepreneurs

Here is the second part of my conversation with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman. The first part is here: How will the recession affect Silicon Valley? Mr Coleman is optimistic about Silicon Valley's long term prospects but he is pessimistic about the current situation. "These days...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-05

How will the recession affect Silicon Valley?

I recently spoke with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman about Silicon Valley and its future. Mr Coleman worked at VisiCorp on the first spreadsheet, he headed development of Sun's Solaris, he co-founded BEA Systems which sold to Oracle for $3.5bn, and he now runs Cassatt, a cloud computing tech startup....

Tags: Silicon Valley, Green Technology, Recession, Cloud Computing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds

A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Cassatt's Bill Coleman on Cutting Datacenter Energy Waste

A friend, Bill Peterson, called my attention to an article called Six steps to halting data center energy waste by Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt. The good Mr. Coleman makes some very good points and it appears that Cassatt has fleshed out some of the things they've discussed before. ...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Red Cross: San Francisco unprepared for big quake

Red Cross: San Francisco unprepared for big quakeDoesn't take a geniusto figure out that there will PROBABLY be a big quake in the area before 2032. That's what, a 26 year window for something to happen? California gets hit by mini-quakes ALL of the time. The magnitute...

Tags: caliber, quake, shotgun, Medium caliber, Red Cross

Discussion threads 2006-04-14

Cassatt's Bill Coleman: Changing the economics of business

Bill Coleman believes that the perfect storm in enterprise computing is on the horizon, in the form of the commoditization of computing. Coleman is the CEO of Cassatt, and a founder of BEA and former Sun executive. He has assembled one of the top pools of experienced industry talent to...

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Blog posts 2005-10-31

Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos on Google's soft underbelly, Microsoft, HP and other topics

Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos shed some light on a number of topics, including Google’s soft underbelly, Microsoft, HP, Dell and IBM in an interview at the Vortex 2005 conference. Papadopoulos "speculated" on the where the Google/Sun relationship might end up: "If you look at what is possible now in the...

Tags: Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos

Blog posts 2005-10-26

Senator: Keep U.N. away from the Internet

Senator: Keep U.N. away from the InternetMessage has been deleted.Yes The Internet Should Not Be Managed by the UN, and Neither by the US!For a president that was preaching smaller government, etc he sure is doing the complete opposite. The ICANN was doing fine, UNTIL the current administration could...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet, ICANN, domain, Cuba, indy

Discussion threads 2005-10-18

IT automation: outsourcing to machines

In the September issue of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, I wrote about automating IT and mentioned a well-endowed startup, Cassatt Corp. The company headed by former BEA CEO Bill Coleman finally shipped its first official product, called Collage 2.0, which is a virtualization and automation platform for managing large-scale clusters of...

Tags: information technology, outsourcing

Blog posts 2004-12-06

IT automation in bold, broad strokes

IT automation in bold, broad strokesBound to happenIT and computer services in general will go the way of assembly lines. It is just alot more cost effective to automate as much as possible.Talk about the writing on the wall, evidence of this has been around for a while and anyone...

Tags: Strategy, IBM Corp., Tommorow, information technology, IT Automation, Coleman, Web service

Discussion threads 2004-12-06