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Cloud Sidekick Delivers Commercial Data Center Automation Solution to Complement Offering

Commercial Maestro 1.13 and PeopleSoft Automation Extender Bundle Beta Released ATLANTA, Ga. – April 9th, 2013 – Cloud Sidekick, a pioneer in providing cloud automation software, today announced the general availability of Maestro 1.13, a new IT automation and orchestration platform geared toward traditional enterprise organizations seeking “cloudy” automation practices and principles. Maestro 1.13 isContinue Reading

Meetup: Cloudifying ERP and Legacy Apps

Cloud Sidekick will be sponsoring a Meetup event titled – Cloudifying ERP and Legacy Apps on Wednesday April 10th @ 5:30 – Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center (Centennial Ballroom A) Join us for a meetup facilitated by Lorne Kaufman to discuss how to apply cloud practices, processes and principles to your existing ERP deployments (PeopleSoft, Oracle,Continue Reading

Cloud Sidekick at Collaborate 13

Cloud Sidekick is excited to announce our participation in Collaborate 13 – a technology and application forum for the Oracle community – April 8th-11th. This event will offer a vast selection of technical and strategic Breakout Sessions, General Sessions, Industry Keynotes, and “Power Panels” – making for a truly bustling conference where you can fill your brains and meet one-on-one withContinue Reading

Lorne Kaufman Joins Cloud Sidekick

Atlanta, GA. – March 1st  2013 – Cloud Sidekick, creator of solutions that help enterprise customers apply cloudy principals and practices to ERP and legacy systems, today announced that it has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Lorne Kaufman – ERP Automation and Virtualization Strategist. “Lorne’s knowledge and expertise in the enterprise application space will help us deliverContinue Reading

Cloud Expo West… Conference Recap

Thanks to everyone who came to visit Cato, Maestro and our Mini-Maestro (pictured to the right shaking hands with Master Chief) at the Cloud Expo West last week! It’s always great to share what we’re developing and get a better handle on the technologies that are making a difference in customer deployments. With over aContinue Reading

Cloud Sidekick announces VMware partnership along with automation support for vSphere and vCenter

Cloud Sidekick is pleased to announce our partnership with VMware as a Technology Alliance Partner, as well as our recent support for VMware vSphere and vCenter APIs within the Cato Cloud Automation Platform and Maestro Enterprise Orchestration. As VMware is the undisputed leader in enterprise virtualization with 99.5% of the Fortune 1000 as customers, addingContinue Reading

Cloud Sidekick returning to Cloud Expo West!

Cloud Sidekick is excited to announce our continued participation in the largest cloud event in the world, the 11th International Cloud Expo West at the Santa Clara Convention Center from November 5th – 8th. This event will offer a vast selection of technical and strategic Breakout Sessions, General Sessions, Industry Keynotes, and “Power Panels” – making forContinue Reading

Cloud Sidekick Unlocks AWS CloudFormation for Private and Hybrid Cloud Deployments

Storm Deployment Automation enables use of AWS CloudFormation compatible templates within Eucalyptus On-Premise IaaS Platform Atlanta, GA – May 7, 2012 – Cloud Sidekick, creator of the open source Cato Cloud Orchestration Platform, today announced the Early Access Program release of Cato Enterprise Edition (EE) which extends the open source Community Edition (CE) by addingContinue Reading

Cato Returns to Cloud Expo

Cloud Sidekick is excited to announce our continued participation in the largest cloud event in the world and on June 11th – 14th we’ll be at the Jarvis Center in NYC for the 10th International Cloud Expo event. Last year, we sponsored our first Cloud Expo in Santa Clara and based on the great response, weContinue Reading

CloudExpo West

Cloud Sidekick rocked this years CloudExpo West. We introduced the cloud community to Cato – your Cloud Sidekick and helper for all your IT automation needs. The Expo was a tremendous success for Cloud Sidekick and our open-source announcement. Stay tuned for detail about our next major release – OpenStack support!Continue Reading