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
BladeLogic is the leading provider of data center automation
software with the largest installed base of Global 2000 and
other leading customers, including such organizations as Cable
& Wireless, Capgemini, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, HSBC,
priceline.com, Time Warner, Virgin Mobile, and Walmart.com.
BladeLogic Operations Manager, the company’s award-winning
suite of enterprise-class data center automation solutions,
enables organizations of any size to achieve continuous configuration
compliance across large-scale, distributed server and application
environments, resulting in dramatically reduced data center
operating costs, improved responsiveness, increased efficiencies,
and enhanced security. BladeLogic is a privately held company
headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. For more information,
please visit www.bladelogic.com.
Press Contact:
Tedd Rodman
BladeLogic
781-907-6560
trodman@bladelogic.com
