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CA comes to Cassatt's rescue

It appears that CA has come to the rescue and has acquired the intellectual property and some of the staff of Cassatt (see CA's statement on this acquisition). I spoke with a number of people, including my good friend and fellow IDC alumni, Bill Peterson, and have come to the...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Computer Associates International Inc., Sales Strategy, Workforce Management, Intellectual Property, Sales Force Management, Sales, Human Resources, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-03

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

Cassatt extends orchestration to include Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

As I've often pointed out, enterprise datacenters are complex environments having an amazing collection of systems that include mainframes, midrange systems and industry standard systems. Technology that only supports one of these platforms clearly just adds to the burden organizations are facing. Simply uprooting and replacing these established citizens of...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Dan Kusnetzky, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Industry Standard, Parallels Virtuozzo, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Storage

Blog posts 2009-04-01

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

Take Four Cassatt's Active Response 5.1

Take Four Cassatt's Active Response 5.1Cassatt and AlpironHi DanAgree with almost all you wrote. However Cassatt product is not unique 1 take a look at www.alpiron.com

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Cassatt Active Response, Cassatt Active Response 5.1

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Take Four Cassatt's Active Response 5.1

In honor of the demo goddess, my chat with the good folks of Cassatt was rescheduled four times. They had to reschedule. I had to reschedule. A fire alarm forced a reschedule. Finally, on the forth try, we connected and I was able to see a most impressive demo of...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Server, Active Response, Policy Compliance, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-06

What would a next generation datacenter look like?

It appears that my recent post, IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?, must have touched on something that had an impact on quite a number of people. I received quite a number of messages from people who either thought that I was on to something or thought...

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

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Are data centers really meant to be green?

I was chastised this week by an attendee at a panel I was moderating in San Francisco for using the term “green” to describe strategies intended to better manage energy usage within a data center. Data centers cannot be green because they aren’t meant to be,...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Server, Ken Oestreich, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Cassatt Screensaver 1 (Windows)

Cassatt screensaver has a quality that enhances the art it displays, rather than detracting from it. Instead of having only 10 or so images like many other screensavers, the producers included as many images as possible. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Screensaver, Fine Art Screensavers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-11-29

Active Response - Cassatt's Take on Green Computing

Cassatt's taking their well established virtualization technology and focusing it tightly on helping organizations create a green computing environment. They've launched a new product family, Active Response, that is designed to simplify an organization's move in that direction. Here's how Cassatt describes Active Response The Cassatt...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Computing, Active Response, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-11-07

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

Cassatt Announces Green Computing Strategy

Cassatt Active Power ManagementIf you'll recall, I posted a series on virtualization and green computing back in May. It seems to me that while virtualization technology won't solve all of the problems of power utilization and heat production in a modern datacenter, the proper use of this technology could certainly...

Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky, Cassatt Corp., Cassatt Active Power Management, server, data center

Blog posts 2007-09-05

Novell updates Orchestrator

Novell's Joe Wagner and Richard Whitehead caught up with me after a whirlwind trip to San Francisco for Linuxworld. They wanted to bring me up to date on Novell ZENworks Orchestrator.As you might remember, I chatted with Novell back in April (see Novell’s Orchestrator) for a post on that conversation....

Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Novell Inc., Orchestrator, Cassatt Corp.

Blog posts 2007-08-14

Cassatt - moving virtualization up a notch

Ive been following Cassatt for a number of years and have always thought that the company has taken a fresh, different view of the concept of virtualization in the implementation of its product "Collage". In an attempt to catch up with what the company is doing now, I spoke with...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Conversations with Cassatt and Marathon, Thoughts on Novell and Red Hat

It appears that this Blog has caught the attention of many companies offering various products for both software and hardware virtualization. Cassatt and Marathon Technologies are among the companies that contacted me. Im going to speak with representatives of both companies over the coming days. Ill post my thoughts...

Tags: virtualization, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Improve Quality of Service and Efficiency of J2EE Applications

Speaker: Martin Brodbeck, Director, Global Applications Architecture, Pfizer. Do you want to increase your software and hardware infrastructure utilization and also find a way to address increasing IT management expenses? If yes, then watch this webcast and you will learn from a leading pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, how to develop a...

Tags: QoS, Cassatt Corp., Webcast, Pfizer Inc., J2EE Application, J2Ee, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management

Webcasts 2006-02-27

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

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...

Tags: Coleman

Blog posts 2005-10-31

Former Sun exec jumps to Cassatt

Former Sun exec jumps to CassattDon't you love it when the big guys jump ship?Another amazing story of one the high priced executives who jump ship when another buck comes along. Think of the money Sun saved without laying one single over provice American worker.I still cannot understand why...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Cassatt Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-04-14

How to Use Automation and Virtualization to Improve Service Levels of Your Applications

Ninety percent of data center resources are sitting idle waiting for usage spikes. Because applications are tightly coupled to the machines on which they run, dedicated hardware must be set aside each time a new application is put into production. Over-provisioning translates into millions of dollars of unused assets. Create...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Automation, Over-provisioning, Cassatt Collage, Goal-Driven Automation, Virtualization Control, Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

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