CASSATT ACTIVE RESPONSE

The Cassatt Active Response software product line has four editions to meet the different needs of organizations to help make their data centers more efficient. Cassatt Active Response is based on patent-pending Active Power Management technology that pools physical and virtual server resources for the most efficient utilization, and uses policy-driven controls to safely, intelligently, and systematically power servers off when not needed, and on when they are.

The four editions of the Cassatt Active Response product line deliver increased energy savings, better utilization of server assets, and increased application availability, while making it easier for customers to adopt incrementally. The product line includes:

• Cassatt Active Response, Standard Edition— For power management. Customers can start with a focused, easy-to-implement project around energy efficiency using Cassatt Active Response, Standard Edition, which delivers drastic reductions in power and cooling costs with a minimum of complexity at a price point that make adoption cost-effective and return-on-investment fast. Standard Edition provides big benefits in very cyclical compute environments, in reducing energy usage of disaster recovery equipment, and in data centers where power usage is at its maximum. With Cassatt Active Response, Standard Edition, customers can expect to save as much as 50 percent on their current power and cooling costs and achieve nearly 300% ROI over three years. Customers with as few as 200 servers in a specific lab can save over $100,000 over three years using Standard Edition, while eliminating 650 tons of carbon emissions, the equivalent to removing 110 cars from the road.
• Cassatt Active Response, Premium Edition— For power management and increased application availability of priority applications. Customers can upgrade to Cassatt Active Response, Premium Edition, which pools and allocates hardware and software as needed by applications at only a fraction of the cost of traditional high-availability (HA) approaches. Premium Edition is ideal for workgroups or sets of related applications with off-setting cyclical workloads like batch applications and ERP that can benefit from sharing common virtual and physical resources, reducing the need for separate, dedicated back-up systems. Premium Edition includes all capabilities of the Standard Edition. Premium Edition can provide “always-available” capability for important applications at only 12 to 33 percent of typical HA costs.
• Cassatt Active Response, Data Center Edition— For power management, high application availability, and server workload management. As customers look to change the broader management of their data centers to be more dynamic, responsive, and make better use of all of their hardware and software assets, they can move to Cassatt Active Response, Data Center Edition. Data Center Edition provides improved energy efficiency and application availability benefits from the Standard and Premium Editions, and also adds capabilities to control networks and provides redundancy of the Cassatt management capability through a back-up control node. Data Center Edition is ideally suited for production environments in which all components need high availability to deliver required service levels to the business. Data Center Edition, can cut 36 to 45 percent of your entire data center capital and operational expenses.
• Cassatt Active Response, Enterprise Edition— For efficient control and optimization of all data center resources across an entire enterprise. Enterprise Edition will draw upon the capabilities of Standard, Premium, and Data Center editions. The product will be ideal for large, global organizations that want to leverage the pool of physical and virtual computing resources available across multiple geographies. Or, companies can “follow the moon” and support applications using the most efficient resources from geographically distinct data centers, leveraging time-based shifts in energy prices and computing demand. Companies will be able to use Enterprise Edition to provide application services that can be delivered to anyone, anywhere, independent of the location or origin of the underlying infrastructure.

All Cassatt Active Response products feature policy-based controls which meet the management needs of nearly any IT environment. Policy-based controls include:

• Demand-based policies: powering up/down servers and/or repurposing hardware, network or workload resources based upon machine loads, application service levels, or other application demand-based metrics
• Event-based policies: basing machine power status and/or workload management upon pre-determined or emergency events
• Capacity-based policies: managing server availability to ensure a fixed degree of compute capacity, automatically replacing failed physical or virtual servers if needed
• Time-based policies: managing server power status or server/network repurposing according to pre-determined timing and sequencing

The product line also includes feature packs to support additional functionality. With Cassatt Active Response, Standard Edition, a feature pack to support communication with particular utility companies' demand curtailment programs is available. With Cassatt Active Response, Premium and Data Center editions, a feature pack to support optimizing the use of BEA WebLogic is available.