Cassatt Corporation announced the availability of Cassatt Collage 4.0. This new version includes new virtual machine and network virtualization control capabilities, helping organizations use automation to radically simplify data center management. As part of this new release, the Cross-Virtualization Manager (XVM) module of Cassatt Collage becomes the first product to simultaneously support the automated manage Cassatt Corporation announced the availability of Cassatt Collage 4.0. This new version includes new virtual machine and network virtualization control capabilities, helping organizations use automation to radically simplify data center management.As part of this new release, the Cross-Virtualization Manager (XVM) module of Cassatt Collage becomes the first product to simultaneously support the automated management of VMware ESX 3.0, Xen 3.0, and XenSource XenEnterprise 3.0 virtual machines. In addition, Cassatt Collage 4.0 uses its new Network Virtualization Service (NVS) to work with Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) environments to dynamically configure network switches so resources can be pooled and shared across networks. With Collage 4.0, IT departments can now pool and control physical, virtual, application server, and network resources, a key enabler for enterprises to adopt a utility computing model. The new capabilities expand Collage’s ability to assign a broad set of data center resources to meet desired service levels. Collage previously could automatically allocate and control application server instances (using the Cassatt Collage Web Automation Module) and virtual and physical machines. “With these new capabilities, you could call Cassatt Collage the operating system for the enterprise data center,” said said Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp. Collage 4.0 also introduces several additional features, including: Enhanced node discovery. Allows Collage to manage a subset of nodes within a larger network without firewall setup while auto-discovering and auto-managing other nodes within the data center. This enhanced manual node discovery mode enables Collage to be non-disruptive when automating data center management. Support for settling resource contention issues. Collage can dynamically allocate services to available “free pool” node capacity based on a combination of service priority and other service level measures. As with previous versions, Collage uses node allocation and “harvesting” to ensure that the highest priority application services are always available in periods of high demand. Cassatt Collage 4.0 and the new release of the Cassatt Collage Cross-Virtualization Manager (XVM) are scheduled to be generally available and shipping Dec. 29, 2006. Software Development