CA Inc has bought certain automation and policy-based optimisation assets from Cassatt Corp, the provider of workload consolidation, virtualisation and provisioning tools that can be used to manage enterprise data centres like a compute utility
Several of Cassatt’s senior personnel and its engineering team have joined CA as well, the company said. Rob Gingell, executive VP of Product Development and company CTO, and Steve Oberlin, Chief Scientist and co-founder, have been joined by their team of developers and engineers.
The company’s lineage, founded by former BEA chairman Bill Coleman, is rich in platform experience. The staff once included the former chief architect of Solaris, the former head of Sun’s Java software unit, the head of BEA field operations, and a team from Cray computer that optimised high performance computing in distributed environments.
It systems automate the provisioning of server resources so they can be shared and utilised more efficiently. It treats server resources as a virtual pool that can be assigned or reassigned to different applications or processes as demand dictates. Cassatt viewed IBM’s Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator as its primary rival.
CA said that incorporating Cassatt’s analysis and optimisation capabilities into its own business automation portfolio will enable cloud-style computing to reliably drive efficiencies in both on-premises, private data centres and off-premises, utility data centres.
No financial details of the deal were released.
