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June 04, 2007
BearingPoint, Cassatt Team on Utility Computing Practice
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BearingPoint Inc., one of the world's largest management and technology consulting
firms, and Cassatt Corp., a provider of software to run IT as
a utility, announced a global collaboration to help companies and
government move their datacenters to utility computing.
In one of the first moves under the cooperative effort, BearingPoint
and Cassatt have opened a customer center in New York City that will
allow financial services companies to model and test utility computing
technologies and environments.
In many companies today, business applications reside in silos --
each locked into dedicated servers and networks. What often results is
over-provisioning, in which excess servers and switches are running at
all times in anticipation of peak demand for an individual application,
but sit underutilized at other times.
Utility computing solves this dilemma by decoupling software
applications from their hardware, creating a bank of computing power.
Utility computing solutions can then dynamically allocate that
computing power to applications as needed, significantly increasing
network flexibility and lowering costs of hardware, maintenance,
operations, and even electricity. As a result, IT can better adapt to
business changes at significantly reduced costs.
This collaboration brings together BearingPoint, provider of
strategic consulting and technology solutions, and Cassatt, a software
developer that makes utility computing possible by assigning resources
to meet pre-defined service levels and then dynamically shifting those
resources on the fly as conditions change.
The new BearingPoint-Cassatt "Utility Computing Customer Experience
Center," at 3 World Financial Center in New York, replicates a large
corporate datacenter and is aimed at financial services companies that
want to design, incubate and test a next-generation computing
infrastructure.
In addition, BearingPoint and Cassatt are working together with
several Fortune 500 customers that have initiated utility computing
projects with an initial focus on customers in the financial services,
public sector, technology, communications and media vertical markets.
"One of the biggest challenges facing the enterprise today is
combating the continued habit of architecting IT infrastructure within
silos," said John Humphreys, program director for enterprise
virtualization software at IDC. "These silos reduce overall computing
efficiency, add a capital expense for every application deployed, and
even contribute to increased data center power and cooling costs.
"Utility computing breaks these silos by creating resource pools
that can be dynamically provisioned to any application," Humphreys
said. "Creating a policy-based IT environment can't be done on a leap
of faith. The joint practice and customer experience center from
BearingPoint and Cassatt are addressing this need and giving
organizations a starting point for utility computing."
"Utility computing is a game-changing proposition for our
customers," said BearingPoint Chairman Rod McGeary. "Properly deployed,
utility computing can reduce infrastructure costs, leverage
underutilized IT assets, help integrate disparate environments from
mergers and acquisitions, improve IT service delivery, and even reduce
electricity costs in datacenters. That's why we've made utility
computing an important initiative at BearingPoint and why we allied
with Cassatt. Cassatt's technology shows that the tools for effective
utility computing have arrived."
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