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October 09, 2006
Cassatt, XenSource Partner on Virtualization
Cassatt Corp. announced a partnership with XenSource Inc., under which Cassatt will be able to
sell XenEnterprise alongside Cassatt's products.
Under terms of the agreement, Cassatt can provide both
virtualization from XenSource and automation solutions from Cassatt to
enterprise-level customers who are deploying server consolidation and
other strategies for optimizing their datacenters.
"Data centers are moving toward a more dynamic model, and as they do
so, we see enterprises doing more and more with server virtualization,
while gaining an understanding of what role virtualization should
play," said John Humphreys, program director of IDC Enterprise
Virtualization Software program. "We also believe that as
virtualization use cases expand, organizations will see the business
benefits of automating the management of their virtual resources
alongside their physical ones. Cassatt and XenSource are making it
easier for customers to bring automation and virtualization to create a
more responsive IT infrastructure."
The Cassatt automation solutions allow customers to automate and
manage the operations of both their physical and virtual servers while
supporting their need to choose the appropriate virtualization
technology for their particular infrastructure. The Cassatt Collage
Cross-Virtualization Manager (XVM) is built using a vendor-neutral
architecture, which will allow customers to host any combination of
virtual machines. XVM will support XenEnterprise in the next release of
the product later this calendar year. Earlier in the year, Cassatt
announced XVM support for VMware ESX and VMware Server.
In addition, customers can use the Cassatt solution to manage their
physical servers from a range of vendors including IBM,
Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems and others.
Customers using XenEnterprise can leverage paravirtualization, which
is the key innovation of the Xen hypervisor, together with
microprocessor support for virtualization, to deliver near "bare metal"
performance to virtualized guest operating systems. The combined
solution allows customers to immediately realize the power of Intel
Virtualization Technology and next-generation AMD Virtualization for
server consolidation. XenEnterprise delivers an integrated
virtualization package to simplify deployment, provisioning, and
management of an X86 server infrastructure.
"We are excited to have Cassatt sell XenEnterprise to enterprise
customers alongside their solutions," said John Glendenning, vice
president of sales for XenSource. "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."
"Our customers are interested in XenEnterprise, and want the ability
to automate the management of Linux and Windows Xen guests alongside
their other data center resources so they can reach the application
service levels they require," said Gamiel Gran, vice president of
channels and sales operations for Cassatt. "XenEnterprise provides many
critical benefits to enterprise IT customers, including the ability to
roll-out and manage new applications with lower platform costs. Working
together, Cassatt and XenSource can help customers use virtualization
to control costs and increase agility in their data centers. Our
partnerships with companies like XenSource and VMware are a key part of
our commitment to automate managing both virtual and physical
infrastructure, providing customers with a vendor-neutral management
platform."
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