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Sentilla powers up with $7.5M for energy management
VentureBeat — ... chains. The energy package is simply the newest feature, having launched in May 2008. It essentially reports on the size of a facility’s footprint, and helps managers understand where and how it can be reduced — hopefully cutting costs as well. The idea earned it $6 million in first-round funding back in 2006. Its biggest challenge now may be its crowded field of competition, including Silicon Valley-based Power Assure and Cassatt, Modius, VMWare and Facebook’s tool of choice, SynapSense. On a ...

Million-Dollar Private Clouds
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Million-Dollar Private Clouds Private clouds that emulate the characteristics of public cloud services sound promising, but they won’t necessarily be fast, easy, or cheap to create. A recent meeting with Cassatt CEO Bill Coleman reinforced that impression, especially when I heard about the price tag associated with them. Cassatt is an interesting company. Founded in 2003, Cassatt’s Active Response software optimizes data center resources by capturing the object code of applications, pooling servers, and distributing workloads based on IT policies. It’s not the same thing as ...

Enterprise consultancy TCS expands in downturn, teams with startups
VentureBeat — ... well, it scales very quickly.” The COIN model gives startups access to international markets and customers, Krishnan said. It gives TCS access to new technology that might take many years to develop if TCS did it on its own. It gives venture capital firms a better shot at successful investments. And it eliminates some of the risk for all parties. TCS has partnerships with many dozens of startups, including enterprise software firm MetricStream in Palo Alto, Calif., Cassatt, a data-center software firm in San Jose, Calif. and Collabnet, a ...

Cloud Vendor Cassatt Faces The End
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... ) As I asked at the time: How many businesses can afford to deploy private clouds at those prices? The answer is not enough to keep Cassatt going. Back in January, Coleman was outwardly optimistic, telling me that Cassatt was on track to turn cash-flow positive in the first quarter if sales held up. At the time of this post, there's no mention on Cassatt's Web site of the problems at hand. Coleman told Forbes that he's been shopping the company for a potential acquisition, but so far no takers. Cassatt VP of marketing Jay Fry, in a post on Twitter, says there's a "flicker ...

Pioneers get arrows in their backs
BeyondVC — ... deadly.  Just like the settlers in the westward migration, entrepreneurs who are too early will get arrows in their back.  It doesn't matter if you have a rock star CEO (Bill Coleman who founded BEA) and $100mm of funding from some great investors.  If you are too early and have to spend lots of money educating a market and get engaged in long protracted sales cycles and pilots, you are not going to be able to spend your way to success. That is what it seems like is happening to Cassat Software. Forbes has an article about Cassat nearing the end.  On the surface it ...

CA Acquires Some Assets From Failed Startup Cassatt
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... this morning announced that it had acquired certain data center automation and “policy-based optimization” expertise and assets from Cassatt Corp., a once-hot start-up based in San Jose. (The company’s Web site at cassatt.com seems to be down.) Terms were not disclosed. Cassatt CTO Rob Gingell and Chief Scientist Steve Oberlin will join CA, along with other developers and engineers. CA also gets several patents and patent applications and other IP. ...

IT Needs a New Drug
E-Commerce Times — ... , restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, in a sense a meltdown, even bankruptcies at a scale never expected. How do you see it, Tony? Is the gap here between technologies? Is it between platforms? How can we reconcile these two? Tony Baer: Well, there are a couple of things. There is always the advantage of the late starter, and there is always a disadvantage of the first starter. One of the things that came to my mind this week is the imminent demise of Cassatt , which was onto the idea of private clouds before its time. On the other hand, if you're a late starter and the ...

In Order to Cut Costs, Data Centers Need to Follow the (Energy) Money: Report [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Companies already frequently shift computing to offer faster web services and to troubleshoot network issues, so adding in a policy to look for low energy prices wouldn’t be too much of a stretch. To that end, some companies are already building products to help, among them software maker Cassatt, which makes energy price-routing software. ...