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THE CARPHONE WAREHOUSE SELECTS BLADELOGIC TO MANAGE ITS SERVER AND APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Europe’s Largest Independent Retailer of Mobile Communications to Scale IT Operations & Increase Productivity Using BladeLogic Operations Manager
Waltham, MA, January 11, 2006—BladeLogic, Inc., the leading provider of data center automation software, today announced that The Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent retailer of mobile communications in Europe, has selected BladeLogic as its automation platform to manage the company’s server and application infrastructure.
The Carphone Warehouse is implementing BladeLogic to replace complex and manually-intensive server and application management processes. BladeLogic Operations Manager™, a suite of award-winning data center automation solutions, will enable The Carphone Warehouse to automate a wide range of these processes including the discovery and detailed inventory of server and applications, the provisioning of the OS and the entire software stack, the deployment of application updates, and the continuous compliance of server configurations to corporate policies.
As an example, The Carphone Warehouse will use BladeLogic to execute in-depth audits of servers to reduce server misconfigurations and application inconsistencies, as well as to synchronize development, test, and production environments to facilitate the rapid deployment of new applications and application updates. By automating critical management tasks, The Carphone Warehouse will obtain dramatic operational efficiencies while allowing its staff to focus on more strategic activities.
“Managing change to our servers and applications is critical to the success of our business but, based on personal experience, is not an easy challenge to address,” said Simon Post, Chief Technology Officer, The Carphone Warehouse. “One of my main priorities since joining The Carphone Warehouse is to address this challenging problem. Given this, we initiated a very thorough evaluation of all available data center automation solutions, and after a thorough analysis, selected BladeLogic. We are very confident that BladeLogic is the optimal solution to automate and optimize our server and application infrastructure management processes.”
“BladeLogic has recently made remarkable inroads into the European market with major wins at Cable & Wireless, Virgin Mobile, Orange, and now The Carphone Warehouse,” said Luca Lazzaron, Vice President, EMEA, BladeLogic. “These companies, as well as the many others who are using BladeLogic, are gaining a strong competitive advantage by taking a comprehensive approach to managing change to their sprawling server and application infrastructure. By selecting BladeLogic, The Carphone Warehouse will not only be able to increase IT productivity and scale its operations, but will also be better able to serve it customers by reducing server and application downtime.”
About The Carphone Warehouse Group PLC
Since trading began in 1989, the Carphone Warehouse Group PLC has achieved sustained growth and is the largest independent retailer of mobile communications in Europe. The company operates in 10 countries and has over 1,500 stores throughout Europe.
About BladeLogic (NASDAQ: BLOG)
BladeLogic is a leading provider of data center automation software with a large installed base of Fortune Global 500 customers, including 21 of the top 100 global companies, 3 of the top 10 aerospace and defense companies, 7 of the top 25 commercial and savings banks, 3 of the top 5 securities companies, 2 of the top 3 entertainment companies, 2 of the top 3 general merchandisers, 7 of the top 12 pharmaceutical companies and 7 of the top 10 telecommunications companies. BladeLogic’s data center automation software solutions enable enterprises, service providers and government organizations to easily browse, provision, configure, patch, audit and remediate physical and virtual servers and applications, allowing customers to achieve reduced data center operating costs, improved service quality and enhanced security and compliance. BladeLogic is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, please visit www.bladelogic.com.
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