NEWS & EVENTS
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IDC
“As organizations become aware of the potential cost benefits and flexibility associated with cloud computing, they are going to look for ways to get these same benefits in their internal data centers. Cassatt recognized the benefit of building a management system that could deliver services using a cloud-like paradigm long before the term 'cloud' was in everyday use. Cassatt continues to expand its support for the hardware, software, virtualization, and networking resources that customers use in their data centers today.”
—Al Gillen, program vice president, system software at IDC
IBM
“We are pleased that the combination of IBM AIX systems, with the latest version of Cassatt Active Response, will result in further energy efficiency in the data center. Through the application of utility computing principles including resource repurposing and power management, the AIX platform can be one of the most power-efficient compute platforms on the market today.”
—Jay Kruemcke, AIX offering manager, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Parallels
“We are thrilled to see Cassatt support Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, the world's leading OS virtualization solution, which provides the highest levels of density and performance of any server virtualization product. Cassatt Active Response software will provide an ideal platform for dynamically and automatically managing a mixed environment of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers as well as physical servers, giving customers a way to run their applications with an extremely cost-effective and adaptable infrastructure.”
—Bryan Goode, vice president of business development, Parallels
Force10 Networks
“With Cassatt's newly added support of Force10 Networks data center switching solutions, customers can automatically optimize the configuration of network infrastructure, guaranteeing the quality of service and bandwidth required by applications, based on policies they set, to deliver cloud-style optimization and agility. Customers can save on space, power, cooling, and cabling, while using our agile, robust switch infrastructure to provide the best network configuration to support their business needs at any given time.”
—Steve Garrison, vice president of marketing, Force10 Networks
Gartner
“Active Power Management is the first product in an important new category that we think infrastructure and operations managers should pay attention to.”
—Milind Govekar & Simon Mingay, Gartner, Inc.
Brocade
“Energy efficiency in the data center is a high priority for Brocade. It's important to our business and to the customers we serve. To that end, Cassatt's Active Power Management approach is very compelling. With thousands of active servers in our test and development labs alone, having the ability to set policies to automatically power them up and down as needed represents an opportunity for tremendous energy and cost savings for Brocade.”
—Zahid Hussain, vice president of engineering for Brocade
Pacific Gas & Electric
“We have been intently watching the development of technology like Cassatt's Active Power Management that can actively and safely match computing equipment run time with varying IT workloads. We know that many data centers operate at very low capacity rates, so the potential for energy savings is high - and the potential to shift IT workloads into off-peak hours is especially intriguing.”
—Mark Bramfitt, principal program manager for the high tech market segment at PG&E
IDC
“Technologies like Cassatt Active Power Management are changing the way data center managers can address power and cooling problems. How big of a problem is this? Our most recent survey puts power and cooling as the number one issue in data centers today. Servers are typically kept on 24 by 7, leading to an enormous waste of power and cooling resources. Cassatt's innovations in this space not only offer customers a solution for reducing IT operations costs, but also help bridge the gap between facilities and IT.”
—Michelle Bailey, research vice president for IDC
Silicon Valley Leadership Group
“The Silicon Valley community is once again breaking new ground. “We are extraordinarily pleased to be working with Cassatt and facilitating innovation that reduces traditional data center power and cooling needs and the associated power generation GHG emissions in such a straightforward fashion.”
—Ray Pfeifer, chair of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's data center demonstration project
BearingPoint
“Utility computing is a game-changing proposition for our customers. Properly deployed, utility computing can reduce infrastructure costs, leverage underutilized IT assets, help integrate disparate environments from mergers and acquisitions, improve IT service delivery, and even reduce electricity costs in data centers. That's why we've made utility computing an important initiative at BearingPoint and why we allied with Cassatt. Cassatt's technology shows that the tools for effective utility computing have arrived.”
—Rod McGeary, chairman for BearingPoint
“Our banking, global markets, and insurance customers increasingly look to us to provide guidance and direction as they investigate utility computing to address many issues within their data centers. The utility computing global collaboration with Cassatt will deliver automation, improved services, and cost savings while establishing a strategic, repeatable approach to IT for financial services organizations.”
—Christopher Formant, executive vice president of Global Financial Services for BearingPoint
IDC
“One of the biggest challenges facing the enterprise today is combating the continued habit of architecting IT infrastructure within silos. These silos reduce overall computing efficiency, add a capital expense for every application deployed, and even contribute to increased data center power and cooling costs. Utility computing breaks these silos by creating resource pools that can be dynamically provisioned to any application. Creating a policy-based IT environment can't be done on a leap of faith. The joint practice and customer experience center from BearingPoint and Cassatt are addressing this need and giving organizations a starting point for utility computing.”
—John Humphreys, program director for enterprise virtualization software at IDC
BladeLogic
“We are very pleased to partner with Cassatt and add them to our Data Center Alliance program. Our two companies offer complementary technologies that, together, address two key pieces of the utility computing puzzle: the ability to automate the configuration management of physical and virtual infrastructures across large heterogeneous data centers, and the need to flexibly allocate computing resources based on application demands.”
—Vance Loiselle, vice president of marketing for BladeLogic
IDC
“As IT organizations increasingly deploy virtualization in the data center, they are hoping to improve hardware utilization, lower costs, and become more responsive. But to fully realize these benefits, IT needs to consider management and automation capabilities that can control the diverse components supporting applications - physical and virtual servers, networking, and beyond. This is where Cassatt is focusing: helping organizations automate service levels across both virtualized and non-virtualized resources.”
—John Humphreys, program director, Enterprise Virtualization Software for IDC
XenSource
“We are excited to have Cassatt sell XenEnterprise to enterprise customers alongside their solutions. “By using XenEnterprise, organizations can implement a virtualization platform resulting in increased server utilization, IT cost reduction, and improved operational agility. XenEnterprise supplies customers with a superior virtualization solution that provides openness and price performance benefits over proprietary offerings. The coupling of XenEnterprise with the Cassatt Collage XVM offering for data center resource management and automation is very compelling.”
—John Glendenning, vice president of sales for XenSource
PlateSpin
“Cassatt and PlateSpin offer complementary technologies that, together, will help companies and other organizations achieve the benefits of large-scale server consolidation, rapid provisioning, high availability, and capacity management. The combination of PlateSpin and Cassatt products provides a unique opportunity to optimize the use of server resources across the enterprise to improve business service levels and lower costs.”
—Eric Courville, vice president of global alliances for PlateSpin
Tata Consultancy Services
“TCS is asked by clients around the world for thought leadership and breakthrough technologies that can provide profound improvements to IT environments. Our Infrastructure Services Practice combined with Performance Engineering Practice offers competitively unique skills and best practices in the area of Infrastructure Services for Global 2000 data centers. TCS has identified Cassatt as a unique enabler to optimize investments that our customers have made in their data centers. Cassatt provides the competitive edge that TCS needs in today's IT Infrastructure services marketplace.”
—S. Ramadorai, MD and CEO for TCS
Novell
“Customers today require advanced tools to manage their infrastructure. Novell's Linux and open source market leadership, combined with Cassatt's ability to deliver service level automation, helps provide our customers with a reliable, scalable, high-performance platform with lower management costs.”
—Hal Bennett, vice president of global partners and programs for Novell
BEA
“BEA WebLogic Server continues to be a leader in application infrastructure while providing the foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and BEA's AquaLogic products. The latest release of BEA WebLogic Server, version 9, includes an emphasis on operations and administration capabilities. We're glad to see Cassatt is offering additional automation and simplification for our customers.”
—Marge Breya, chief marketing officer (CMO) of BEA Systems, Inc.
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