As data center environments become more complex with composite applications and cloud computing, CA infrastructure management solutions reportedly enable customers to better understand the economic impact of their IT systems and how to optimize them to support business goals. Cassatt's Rob Gingell, executive vice president of Product Development and Chief Technology Officer, and Steve Oberlin, Chief Scientist and co-founder, have joined CA, along with their team of developers, engineers, and other key employees.

In addition, CA has acquired several Cassatt patents and patent applications, as well as other intellectual property. "This is a great move for both organizations because of the vision we share--delivering a new, dramatically more efficient way to run data centers. The acquisition of Cassatt's data center automation technology and expertise by CA, one of the world's largest and most successful software companies and an innovator in business-driven automation, will help make this vision into a reality for customers," said Cassatt Chief Executive Officer and founder Bill Coleman. Donald Ferguson, CA's Chief Architect added, "Incorporating Cassatt's analysis and optimization capabilities into CA's world-class business-driven automation solution will enable cloud-style computing to reliably drive efficiencies in both on-premises, private data centers and off-premises, utility data centers. We believe the result will be a uniquely comprehensive infrastructure management approach, spanning monitoring, analysis, planning, optimization and execution."