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BLADELOGIC RECEIVES 2007 DATA CENTERS EUROPE AWARD FOR MOST INNOVATIVE NEW DATA CENTER SOFTWARE PRODUCT
Rapid Adoption by Leading Enterprise Customers and Innovative Architecture Propel BladeLogic to Win Inaugural Data Center Award
Lexington, MA, March 26, 2007—BladeLogic, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, today announced that the latest version of its software solutions, BladeLogic Release 7, has won the 2007 Data Centers Europe Most Innovative New Data Center Software Product award. BladeLogic received the award in a special ceremony held on March 22, 2007 in London, as part of the 3rd Annual Data Centers Europe event.
The 2007 Data Centers Europe Awards are the first European-based awards dedicated to providing a platform to raise awareness of the importance of data center management and automation in Europe and to facilitate an independent reference point for excellence in this sector. BladeLogic Release 7 received the award due to its innovative functionality and the value creation it provides to European enterprises, service providers and government organizations.
“Data center management is an extremely hot topic as enterprises throughout Europe try to gain control over their rapidly expanding IT infrastructures,” said Nicola Hayes, vice president at BroadGroup, organizer of the 2007 Data Centers Europe event. “As the largest regional gathering of leaders and decision makers in the data center management sector, the Data Centers Europe event connects the enterprise to the data center, and the awards provide commercially valuable benchmarks. We are very pleased to name BladeLogic Release 7 the winner of the 2007 Most Innovative New Data Center Software Product award due to the breadth and depth of its functionality and its track record at large IT organizations of improving IT service quality and reducing operations costs.”
BladeLogic Release 7 offers a new data center management paradigm by allowing organizations to synchronize all configuration management activities across disparate IT teams performing different management actions through BladeLogic’s next-generation Synchronous Management architecture. By enabling the use of dynamic, multi-functional policies that link specific people and teams to explicit infrastructure components and the precise management actions they are authorized to perform, BladeLogic Release 7 ensures provisioning, configuration management and compliance management actions are not made in isolation, but in context of the overall needs of the business. The end result is dramatically improved IT service quality, reduced operational costs, better compliance to policies and greater flexibility to respond to an ever-increasing rate of change in the data center.
“We have been able to build a large stable of blue-chip European customers by providing tremendous business value through innovative technology,” said Luca Lazzaron, vice president, EMEA, BladeLogic. “We are very proud to be recognized by Data Centers Europe as an innovator and leader in the data center management sector. On behalf of all the BladeLogic employees in Europe and around the world, I am very pleased to accept this prestigious award.”
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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