BladeLogic

"BladeLogic’s suite of automation solutions utilizes a policy-based management approach built on best practice processes that have been successfully deployed in many enterprise IT organizations, including those of Capgemini, E*Trade, Expedia, Lockheed Martin, priceline.com, VeriSign, Virgin Mobile, and Walmart.com. The company is growing very quickly and is invariably on the short list for enterprise IT organizations considering solutions that address application and server change management, configuration, and compliance assurance."

"Offering the most detailed configuration management capability of any vendor, BladeLogic Operations Manager models services and configuration elements across platforms. Services can be composed of elements like vendor packages, specific parameters in configuration files, Windows registry settings, .Net, and J2EE components. BladeLogic excels at building new servers and applications based on these models or scanning and repairing out-of-whack servers, where other vendors must perform binary comparisons or file-level checksums."

"BladeLogic develops software that enables Global 2000 companies to more efficiently automate, control and enforce configuration changes to servers and applications across heterogeneous data centers. From its 2001 inception, BladeLogic has focused on developing a product that automates and integrates data center operations in a way that can track and enable individual operator activities and high levels of compliance. With more than 150 customers and four rounds of venture funding to its credit, BladeLogic has established itself as an important data center automation contender."

"BladeLogic Operations Manager addresses the full life cycle of server management, change control, administration and compliance for a heterogeneous infrastructure."

"BladeLogic's strength in server provisioning and configuration management/change control is the reason why the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is central to BladeLogic's approach, because in order to properly provision and configure servers, up-to-date inventory information is essential. BladeLogic's focus is on providing secure and centralized management for server provisioning, change control, compliance, and analytics, all of which depend heavily on configuration information."

"The latest version of BladeLogic Operations Manager software adds role-based access, increases the available level of granularity, opens the API and adds compliance features to help customers adhere to Sarbanes-Oxley, the regulation that requires companies to document and assess reliability of their internal controls."