The partnership, which was announced today at the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit, will integrate Cassatt's and BladeLogic's software suites to connect how customers manage software configurations and how they allocate resources on-demand in their data centers. The resulting solution is designed to increase capital efficiency and administrator productivity while decreasing operational costs and improving reliability.

Cassatt also announced that it has joined BladeLogic's Data Center Alliance Program, providing BladeLogic partners with an effective way to integrate its solutions with the BladeLogic data center automation software suite. The two companies are collaborating in key customer engagements in order to provide a combined solution that delivers utility computing throughout the life cycle of today's enterprise data center operations.

"We are very pleased to partner with Cassatt and add them to our Data Center Alliance program," says Vance Loiselle, VP of marketing for BladeLogic. "Our two companies offer complementary technologies that, together, address two key pieces of the utility computing puzzle: the ability to automate the configuration management of physical and virtual infrastructures across large heterogeneous data centers, and the need to flexibly allocate compute resources based on application demands."

BladeLogic recently announced it added the BladeLogic Virtualization Manager, a new software solution enabling seamless management of physical and virtual computing platforms.