BladeLogic

“After an exhaustive evaluation of a number of leading data center automation solutions, the proof-of-concept team felt that BladeLogic was the only major contender that could meet our deployment and provisioning schedule. As part of this build-out effort, we were also able to leverage BladeLogic to baseline our system and application installation process, thereby ensuring rapid and consistent deployments across our large production and pre-production environments.”

Philip Potloff, Executive Director of Infrastructure Operations

"BladeLogic will help us to reduce the management costs per server, while delivering an IT environment which is more efficient and responsive to the needs of our business."

Mike Osier, Vice President, Information Technology and Operations

"After carefully evaluating a number of data center automation solutions, we selected BladeLogic due to its comprehensive compliance and configuration management capabilities."

Nick Benson, Noridian Mutual Insurance Company

"With more than 15 subsidiaries, Expedia has an extensive IT infrastructure environment consisting of thousands of servers and applications distributed in data centers located around the world. We selected BladeLogic to provide a unified platform to manage the entire lifecycle of our servers, from development through production. By doing so, we will have a more efficient server and application environment enabling us to better serve our customers around the world."

Bill Holtz, Chief Information Officer

"ADP is creating a system to automate and synchronize software development, testing, and deployment. "This is the glue that allows us to take all these different software groups and bring them together," says Bob Bongiorno, CIO of ADP's biggest unit, Employer Services. The system uses BladeLogic's data center automation software running on Linux on Intel-based servers."

Bob Bongiorno, CIO of Employer Services, ADP

"Using BladeLogic to automate change and configuration management across our infrastructure will lower our operational costs and provide the essential framework for providing best-in-the-world service quality. VeriSign recognizes the critical role a data center automation solution serves in developing and executing a strong security and compliance strategy. BladeLogic will provide us with greater visibility and control over our assets, enable compliance with corporate and regulatory policies, and support ever better enterprise standardization."

Mark Gathje, Vice President of Systems Engineering

"CME makes money by charging for executing trades and then charging to settle those trades. Thus, the faster its systems are, the more trades it can handle, and the more profitable it is. Moreover, GLOBEX and our customers' revenue streams are determined by our availability, and if our systems go down, they may be exposed in a marketplace where they're down and can't do a thing about it. The CME hasn't had a significant outage on its GLOBEX online trading system since Operations Manager was deployed. We've determined that every hour of downtime results in $2 million in lost revenue on GLOBEX. So simply by the fact that BladeLogic makes our system more reliable--and we haven't had any significant outages—it's helped us to not sustain that loss."

Steve Goldman, Director of Network Architecture

"BladeLogic crosses architectural tiers and vendor architectures. So in our case we can use one tool to control Windows, Linux and Solaris and to roll out - and, just as importantly, roll back - features with precision and speed. We rolled BladeLogic out three years ago. At that time, a rollback across the entire Web tier could take an hour and a half. Using BladeLogic, our ability to roll back went from an hour and a half to literally 10 minutes."

Ron Rose, Chief Information Officer

"Lockheed Martin needs to be able to manage a constantly changing and growing server environment. In addition, it is critical that we comply with both internal security policies and external regulatory policies."

Kim Sawyer, Vice President

“We selected BladeLogic because it allowed us to better manage our rapidly growing server and application environments without adding staffing resources. Since deploying BladeLogic Operations Manager we have experienced significant efficiency gains and have been very impressed with the solution’s comprehensive configuration management and compliance assurance capabilities.”

Anna Thompson, Director of Shared Services

"After reviewing and testing the major configuration management solutions, we selected BladeLogic due to it's full range of server and application management functionality and its ability to be easily adopted in our environment. Since deploying BladeLogic Release 7, we now have consistent server and applications builds and clear visibility to what's been installed on each server, helping Rearden Commerce to improve our operational processes and maintain compliance with corporate, security and regulatory polices."

Chris McDaniel, Director of IT Operations, Rearden Commerce

"BladeLogic's software helps our team identify file system changes, and deploy files, patches, applications, hotfixes and other software -- all of which benefit our operational staff and ultimately our customers."

Kevin Paglusch, President Hosting Business Unit

"After conducting a comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of available data center automation solutions, we selected BladeLogic for both its clear technical superiority and its success in delivering demonstrable value to its numerous Global 2000 customers."

Kevin Tomlinson, Vice President, Head of Outsourcing UK and European Service Delivery

"With the increased efficiency and decreased downtime we have achieved by using BladeLogic, the products have completely paid for themselves in the first thirty days alone."

John Mandani, Operations Manager

"BladeLogic Operations Manager provides Time Warner Cable with comprehensive data center automation that will help streamline our data center operations. We hope to significantly increase productivity, decrease our operations costs and provide greater visibility into our server and application infrastructure."

John Drudick, Vice President of Information Technology

"Today's IT managers have more on their plate than ever before. BladeLogic enables us to automate the lifecycle of application infrastructure management which is essential to controlling costs while maintaining responsiveness to the business."

Mark McNamara, Director of IT

"Superior technology, speed-to-market, outstanding service and continuous innovation are core to WildCard Systems. After conducting an evaluation of automation solutions we selected BladeLogic on the strength of the breadth and sophistication of functionality offered, as well as demonstrable customer success stories. BladeLogic enables us to automate a wide range of data center management processes which translates into better service for our clients."

Larry Park, President and CEO

"We chose BladeLogic Operations Manager 6 because it was by far the most comprehensive data center automation solution we evaluated. FreshDirect achieved dramatic efficiencies and improved application uptime within weeks of adopting BladeLogic. We are confident that BladeLogic will not only help us keep IT costs low even as our business grows, but also enable us to evolve to a service-oriented environment where business policies drive the allocation and optimization of IT resources."

Myles Trachtenberg, CTO