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3.18.08
Making Virtualization Work for You
“Virtualization may save energy, money and other resources, but it also has the potential to increase management time. How to get the most out of virtualization without being distracted by it is the subject of this IT Link podcast, with Dev Ittycheria, CEO of BladeLogic, which was acquired March 17 by BMC.”
3.13.08
In Harsh Jobs Market, Tech Companies an Oasis
“After a recent wave of mergers and acquisitions, businesses are straining to consolidate their sprawling networks of servers and software applications. BladeLogic has been selling technology that enables those businesses to configure, patch, and update software across multiple operating systems simultaneously. ‘When people feel pressure to contain costs, one of the places they look is the data center,’ said Dev Ittycheria, BladeLogic's president and chief executive. ‘That creates the need for our services.’”
2.26.08
How to Clear a Security Audit with Flying Colors
“’Standardization is probably the biggest area where configuration management, deployed well in your environment, can have a huge impact,’ said Tom Large of Alliance Data Systems. He noted that five of the six major sections of PCI DSS can be mitigated to a considerable degree through good configuration management. Alliance Data Systems uses software from Lexington, Mass.-based BladeLogic Inc. for configuration management, auditing and remediation.”
1.14.08
BladeLogic Teams Up With CyberTrails
"By leveraging BladeLogic as its standard server and application management platform, CyberTrails can now automate all server lifecycle management functions."
12.19.07
10 Technologies and 20 Vendors You Should Know for 2008
“Companies such as BladeLogic are doing a lot to automate the provisioning of servers.”
12.14.07
BladeLogic Announces Findings of Data Center Automation Survey
“Over 90 percent of the respondents selected servers and applications when asked what were the most critical elements in the data center that demand automation.”
12.12.07
Live and Earn
"Ittycheria drove the IPO process from start to finish," says Merrill’s Paul Roche, the CEO’s longtime private wealth manager, who helped deliver Merrill the business. "He was able to navigate the intricacies of the process, from selecting bankers to writing large parts of the S-1, without losing focus on what had made the company successful to that point."
12.06.07
3 Tips to Trim Data Center Costs
"By enabling IT organizations to increase server/administrator ratios, meet critical compliance requirements faster, and better align IT with the overall objectives of the business, data center automation is turning IT into a profit center. BladeLogic hosted a Webinar today that revealed three tips to create a lean, mean data center machine."
11.01.07
Schooled in Software Entrepreneurship
"If I had to name one quality that best describes Dev, it is perseverance," said Steve Walske, BladeLogic Chairman of the Board. "He took BladeLogic from a four-person startup in 2001 to one of the most promising public software companies in the marketplace today, all the while dealing with tough economic conditions, a brutal competitive environment, demanding customers and impatient investors."
10.25.07
Virtualization: Do Your Homework
"Many IT managers also neglect backup and fail-over plans for virtualized environments, says Vick Vaishnavi, director of Marketing at BladeLogic, even though virtualization can make it easier for working servers to take over for failed hardware."
10.04.07
The Audacity of Faith
"On the afternoon of July 25th, two siliconindians rang the Nasdaq closing bell to mark the closing of the US stock market. That day also signified a milestone many entrepreneurs can only dream about. It was the day the company they founded six years ago – BladeLogic – had become a public entity."
10.01.07
German Firm Chooses BladeLogic Tech
"BladeLogic also announced that gedas has recently finished an implementation of BladeLogic software at the Frankfurt International Airport in Germany."
09.17.07
Mass High Tech Announces 2007 All Star Award Winners
"Congratulations to this Year's All Stars: Software - Dev Ittycheria, President, CEO & Director, BladeLogic Inc."
08.20.07
ADP back-burners virtualization, cranks up heat on automated change management
"Over the past few years, ADP has rolled out BladeLogic's Operations Manager to automate change management. This multipronged tool, which manages configurations, compliance and provisioning, eliminates the need for testers to follow ad-hoc instructions. Instead, the automation package, which comprises an application server and agents that sit on client machines, lets developers provide uniform guidelines for recreating the test environment."
8.14.07
Auto Site Chooses BladeLogic
"Edmunds Inc., whose websites are a source for automotive information, has selected BladeLogic automation software to manage the servers and applications in its new data center."
08.07.07
Five Tips For No-Brainer Virtualization
"Botched changes to a physical "host" server are especially dangerous because they can hurt the availability or performance of multiple VMs, says Vick Vaishnavi, director of product marketing at BladeLogic Inc., a data center automation software vendor in Lexington, Mass."
06.25.07
Insurer Aims for Automation
" 'We needed an automation vendor neutral enough to provide tools that seamlessly integrated the systems we had and operate in our different server environments,' said Paul Stallings of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Florida. 'Basically everything in our environment needs to be integrated to take advantage of capacity management, virtualization and other technologies.' For Stallings, that meant augmenting his use of BladeLogic's Operations Manager for server management to installing the company's Orchestration Manager software, which is designed to automatically integrate processes and centralize data from multiple, disparate sources."
06.25.07
10 Automation Companies to Watch
"Not only has the company added virtual support to its data-center automation portfolio, but BladeLogic also boasts an impressive customer list, including Wal-Mart, Weight Watchers, Merrill Lynch, eTrade, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Key Bank, to name a handful."
06.25.07
Arsys Selects BladeLogic Solutions
"Using BladeLogic, Arsys can now automate the entire server management lifecycle, including discovery, provisioning, configuration change management, compliance auditing and remediation, application release management and reporting."
06.25.07
6 tips For Jump-starting Your Data Center Automation Project
"For instance, BladeLogic introduced last fall its Orchestration Manager software, which is designed to provide run-time event, data exchange and workflow integration between BladeLogic software as well as third-party tools. "
06.11.07
BladeLogic, Cassatt Unite for Utility Computing
"By integrating BladeLogic's Operations Manager software with Cassatt's Collage software, large enterprises can automate daily configuration change and compliance tasks and provision hardware and software resources on demand."
04.23.07
BladeLogic Add-on Manages Virtual Servers
"BladeLogic this week announced an add-on to its data center automation software that the company says lets IT managers monitor virtual platforms alongside their physical machines."
03.29.07
Selecting Servers for the E-commerce Operation
"The first major decision for any company planning to establish an online presence is whether to go with a hosted e-commerce solution or whether to create their own on-premises data center. The decision to build a data center in-house, according to Vick Vaishnavi, director of product marketing at BladeLogic, depends on two criteria: economics and obligation."
03.27.07
BladeLogic Release 7 Receives Data Centres Europe Award
"BladeLogic Release 7 received the award due to its innovative functionality and the value creation it provides to European enterprises, service providers and government organisations."
03.19.07
Netflix Chooses BladeLogic
"Before selecting BladeLogic, Netflix managed its server and application environments using internally developed tools and scripts; by selecting BladeLogic, Netflix will be able to further streamline operations and improve service availability by fully automating the entire lifecycle of its data-management processes."
03.19.07
When IT is the Threat
"For maintenance purposes an international financial organization in Washington, D.C. uses BladeLogic's data-center automation software to set role-based access controls and limit the types of tasks allowed."
03.13.07
Podcast: Data Center Management Challenges
"Just like everyone else in IT, data center managers are being squeezed to get the most out of their budget. In this podcast, we sort out the bewildering set of challenges -- from compliance issues to new technologies to securing remote users -- with Vance Loiselle, the vice president of marketing and the co-founder of BladeLogic."
03.12.07
Improve Availability of Enterprise Data
"The IT group uses BladeLogic to manage those configurations and control releases, and to run compliance reports to check for variance from standard configurations. The controls help prevent mistakes from impacting production servers, and the standard system images help speed up provisioning — a benefit that extends to disaster recovery."
03.05.07
Onaro, BladeLogic Team
"The new offering, which combines BladeLogic’s data center automation software with Onaro’s SANscreen, is the first solution on the market to simplify the management of large data center environments by enabling IT organizations to model and manage application and infrastructure services consisting of server and storage configurations."
02.26.07
Noridian Automates Compliance Management
"BladeLogic will ensure that the configuration of Noridian's IT systems will be consistent with the federal enterprise architecture defined by the CMS, as well as Noridian's own information system architecture."
02.21.07
General Dynamics Deploys BladeLogic
"Using BladeLogic, General Dynamics will be able to automate the definition and documentation of policies that establish recommended configurations for servers and applications, and schedule regular scans of its server and application environments to track compliance with those policies."
02.16.07
Automating Today's Data Center
"According to Vick Vaishnavi, director of product marketing, BladeLogic, forward-looking IT organizations now recognize that they must take a holistic approach to managing infrastructure by employing a comprehensive data center automation solution that provides the foundation for a truly responsive IT environment where business policies drive the allocation and optimization of IT resources."
02.15.07
BladeLogic Gets Japanese Distribution
"Under the agreement, Macnica Networks will resell and provide value-added services for BladeLogic software to its corporate and service provider clients in Japan, the companies said."
02.02.07
Automating Processes in the Data Center
“'By implementing data center automation software, BladeLogic's Vick Vaishnavi adds, IT organizations can significantly reduce data center operating costs, improve service quality, increase efficiencies, and enhance compliance and security."
01.08.07
BladeLogic Names New CFO
"With nearly 30 years of financial and operational management experience, including his background as the Chief Financial Officer for three different publicly-held technology companies, Gavin joins BladeLogic as it rapidly expands its business on a global scale."