Typical enterprise IT environments have as much as 90% of their hardware and software resources sitting idle at any given time, in anticipation of usage spikes.  The Cassatt software, called Collage, creates a dynamic, virtual pool of resources that business applications can draw from, using existing software, servers, and networks.  Cassatt then uses goal-driven automation to manage and optimize these resources.  The result is “service level automation”:  Cassatt enables IT departments to deliver the application service levels to support and grow business – even under tight budget restrictions – by automatically leveraging previously wasted computing resources.

With today’s announcement, Cassatt Collage now provides support for the Solaris 10 OS on SPARC and x64, helping enterprise data centers reduce costs while increasing agility across their most important computing platforms. In addition, Cassatt is taking advantage of the Sun Grid Readiness Offer, a comprehensive partner offering that gives independent software vendors quick access to the resources they need to help build solutions based on grid computing technologies from Sun.  By accessing this program, Cassatt will work with Sun to ensure both companies' joint customers can optimize their IT environment and build operational grids based on Sun technologies.