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RIGHT90 SELECTS BLADELOGIC FOR SERVER AND APPLICATION CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE
Market Leader in On-demand Sales Planning Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry to Improve IT Service Quality and Reduce Operational Costs using BladeLogic
Lexington, MA, December 11, 2006—BladeLogic, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, today announced that Right90, a market and technology leader in on-demand sales planning solutions for the manufacturing industry, has selected BladeLogic’s award-winning suite of data center automation solutions to automate its server and application release management initiatives.
By using BladeLogic’s data center automation solutions to manage, control and enforce configuration changes to its server and application infrastructure, Right90 will dramatically improve IT service quality, significantly reduce operational costs, better enable compliance to operational, security and regulatory policies, and provide greater flexibility to respond to an ever-increasing rate of change in the data center. In the past, Right90 performed all of its server and application release management processes manually. Since the deployment of BladeLogic’s software, Right90 is now able to automate a wide range of data center processes, including:
• Configuration management—provision, patch, configure and update servers across different OS platforms;
• Compliance and policy management—define, manage and enforce operational, security and regulatory policies around change and configuration management;
• Application packaging and promotion—automate the process of application packaging, deployment and updates;
• Task automation and role-based privileges—perform automated tasks using BladeLogic as the primary point of entry for management and access control.
“Prior to BladeLogic our IT organization was forced to terminal directly to servers in order to make configuration changes. This process provided us with no accountability for changes to server configurations and no way to control access based on the privileges of the administrator,” said Ming Wu, Director of Operations, Right90. “Since deploying BladeLogic’s data center automation software, we can now easily manage and audit our change management and access control policies. Standardization through BladeLogic has resulted in dramatic improvements to our IT operations. For example, we can now provision multiple servers from a standard policy and install applications in less than an hour. The impact BladeLogic has made to our business has been compelling.”
“While there are many software products that either offer piecemeal solutions or are simply too cumbersome and require too much customization, BladeLogic is the only data center automation software solution available today that provides a broad set of capabilities to deliver business value in a very short period of time,” said John McMahon, senior vice president, worldwide sales and services, BladeLogic. “Companies like Right90 that implement BladeLogic are gaining a substantial competitive advantage by comprehensively automating the management of their server and application infrastructure. The end result is a far more agile and cost efficient operation.”
About Right90
Right90, Inc. is a leading software as a service (SaaS) company that provides an integrated sales planning solution for the manufacturing industry. Manufacturing companies can effectively bridge the gap between their sales opportunity management and production planning processes with Right90’s demand forecasting, demand analytics and operating plan management solutions. The result is significantly improved forecast accuracy, fewer inventory issues and higher enterprise gross margins. Deployed in less than 90 days, Right90’s solutions enable companies to clearly understand key profit sources and levers and quickly build and manage profit-driven operating plans to meet or exceed margin objectives. Right90 is a privately held company headquartered in Foster City, CA with additional offices in New York, NY and Calgary, AB Canada. For more information, please visit www.right90.com/solutions.
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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