Cassatt, the company started by BEA founder Bill Coleman, is redirecting its data center widgetry into creating internal clouds comparable to Amazon or Google out of infrastructure customers already have in-house.

Coleman observed that most IT professionals aren’t comfortable outsourcing the mission-critical parts of their sensitive internal applications to an external cloud provider.

“They are concerned,” he said, “about availability, vendor lock-in, not having the control they need and having to rebuild these applications from scratch with proprietary tools running on provider-specific platforms.”

So Cassatt’s updated offerings leverage its data center expertise and technology so customers can implement cloud-style computing environments using their existing systems, inside the firewalls of their datacenters without having to modify their current hardware or software.

The new Cassatt Active Profiling Service gathers information about servers and their configurations, server usage patterns, utilization, energy consumption, server interdependencies and other key details.

Cassatt experts analyze the data to improve data center efficiency and operations – they find orphan or unused servers, identify candidate servers for virtualization and consolidation, suggest policies to save on energy costs and map out the move to utility-style computing.

Then with Cassatt Active Response 5.2, the user can improve energy efficiency and application availability and enable the best use of computing resources across the diverse hardware, software and virtualization technologies already running in a datacenter.