CA acquires assets from Cassatt Corp

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Enterprise IT management software firm CA has acquired certain data centre automation and policy-based optimisation expertise and assets from Cassatt Corporation, a provider of cloud computing software that makes data centres more efficient. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

CA’s Ajei Gopal, executive VP of the firm’s products and technology group, noted: “This acquisition strengthens CA’s ability to deliver on the promise of lean IT for our customers. “With the addition of Cassatt’s engineering team and advanced data centre automation assets, CA will accelerate its development of software that helps customers make more intelligent, business policy-based decisions.”

Gopal said that, as data centre environments become more complex with composite applications and cloud computing, CA’s infrastructure management solutions enabled customers to better understand the economic impact of their IT systems and how to optimise them to support business goals.

Cassatt’s CTO, Rob Gingell, and Steve Oberlin, chief scientist and co-founder, have joined CA, along with their team of developers, engineers, and other key employees. In addition, CA has acquired several Cassatt patents and patent applications, as well as other intellectual property.

Cassatt CEO and founder, Bill Coleman, noted: “Cassatt has long been a champion for using a cloud-style architecture to manage data centres like a ‘compute utility’. This is a great move for both organisations because of the vision we share: delivering a new, dramatically more efficient way to run data centres.”

Donald Ferguson, CA’s Chief Architect added: “Cassatt invented an elegant and innovative architecture and algorithms for data centre performance optimisation. Incorporating Cassatt’s analysis and optimisation capabilities into CA’s business-driven automation solution will enable cloud-style computing to reliably drive efficiencies in both on-premises, private data centres and off-premises, utility data centres. We believe the result will be a uniquely comprehensive infrastructure management approach, spanning monitoring, analysis, planning, optimisation and execution.”

CA’s business-driven automation solution is designed to reduce customers’ capital and operating costs and to improve service quality by enabling dynamic, real-time response to changing business demands.

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