Cloud Sidekick maintains Cato - the open source cloud automation framework. Automatically build and manage private and public cloud infrastructure. Rock solid. Customer proven. Brutally efficient. Download Our Datasheet
Cato is your new Cloud Sidekick. Cato (cloud automation and technology optimization) is an open-source cloud automation hero that makes running your Public or Private cloud easy.
Cato can automatically build entire ecosystems on the fly, scale your applications up or down, automate recurring activities, manage your job schedule – all while keeping your cloud neatly organized and optimized.
Cato is open source. He comes prepackaged as an EC2 Image in AWS, a downloadable VMWare/Parallels image, or a binary distribution for your own private cloud.
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!
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Cloud Expo last week was simply an awesome experience for Cato and the whole Cloud Sidekick team. We gave away a thousand wonderfully obnoxious bright orange “Be The Hero” t-shirts, and left many people disappointed when we ran out. We hope you’ll proudly wear yours and who knows – if I ever see one out…
With the recent Oracle/AWS announcement we thought it might be a good idea to dust off this use case describing how the T-Mobile operations team is putting Cato to work building test environments for their large Oracle-based billing system. Bill processing at T-Mobile spans many applications that collectively process hundreds of millions of calls, text…