BLADELOGIC AND ONARO PARTNER TO OFFER INTEGRATED BEST-OF-BREED SERVER, APPLICATION AND STORAGE AUTOMATION CAPABILITIES

First Solution to Provide IT Organizations with a Service-Oriented Approach to Server, Application and Storage Management

Lexington, MA, and Boston, MA, March 5, 2007— BladeLogic, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, and Onaro, Inc., the leader in storage service management (SSM) software, today announced a technology partnership that provides enterprise customers an integrated, best-of-breed management solution for server, application and storage infrastructure. 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. By doing so, those organizations can implement holistic data center management processes and better align IT with business requirements by eliminating silos of skills across server, application and storage resources.

BladeLogic’s suite of data center automation software solutions enables IT organizations to manage, control and enforce configuration changes to servers and applications in order to realize maximum value from the data center. Onaro’s SANscreen allows IT organizations to align their storage infrastructure with server and application requirements for better control and reduced costs. BladeLogic and Onaro provide solutions to address the complex data center requirements for many of the leading enterprises across every major industry vertical. Through the API integration of the two solutions, IT organizations can take advantage of a unified management platform for server, application and storage infrastructure where management actions are performed at the service level, while eliminating the risk of time-consuming integrations or settling for inferior functionality provided by a large framework.

Key benefits of the integrated solution will include the ability for IT organizations to:
• Model and manage server, application and storage configurations as discrete IT services;
• Measure compliance of configurations and service level agreements for IT services;
• Model, execute and undo configuration changes and capacity thresholds;
• More effectively align server and storage requirements to business demands.

“In order to be more responsive to constantly changing business requirements, IT organizations need to ensure that the most critical components of the data center - servers, applications and storage devices – are connected and aligned with the needs of the business,” said Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO, BladeLogic. “With Onaro as a member of the BladeLogic Technology Alliance Program, we can offer customers a fully-integrated, best-of-breed management platform for their server, application and storage infrastructure. By allowing IT organizations to manage business-level IT services rather than lower-level configuration items, this solution will enable IT organizations to better align IT with the business and reduce overall IT operations costs.”

“We are very pleased to partner with BladeLogic, one of the leaders in the data center automation software market, and include them in our Service Connections program which already includes Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems and Oracle,” said Doug McNary, president and CEO, Onaro. “By combining our storage service management software with BladeLogic’s award-winning data center automation software, we are enabling enterprises to implement a best-of-breed approach to data center management which will result in a more responsive IT organization with greater IT availability and flexibility.”

About Onaro, Inc.
Onaro is the leader in storage service management (SSM) enabling enterprises to increase service quality, return on storage, and compliance by managing storage as a service. Unlike traditional SRM applications which are device-centric, Onaro provides a clear service view into a SAN's access paths, redundancy, replication and performance. SANscreen is being used by the world's largest companies in banking, retail, entertainment, data communications and wireless telecom. A partial customer list includes AOL, CareGroup Healthcare System, JetBlue Airways, Priority Healthcare, State Street Global Advisors and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. For more information, please visit www.onaro.com.

About BladeLogic
BladeLogic is the world's leading provider of next-generation data center automation software with the largest installed base of Global 500 customers, including 9 of the top 50 global companies, 3 of the top 10 aerospace and defense companies, 5 of the top 25 commercial and savings banks, 2 of the top 5 securities companies, 2 of the top 5 entertainment companies, 1 of the top 3 general merchandisers, 6 of the top 12 pharmaceutical companies and 5 of the top 10 telecommunications companies. BladeLogic’s award-winning suite of enterprise-class data center automation software solutions enables enterprises, service providers and government organizations to easily discover, provision, configure, patch, audit, repair and re-allocate physical and virtual computing platforms and applications, resulting in dramatically reduced data center operating costs, improved service quality, and enhanced security and compliance. BladeLogic is a privately-held company headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, please visit www.bladelogic.com.


Contacts:

Tedd Rodman
BladeLogic
+1-781-257-3560
trodman@bladelogic.com

Beth Winkowski
Onaro, Inc.
+1-978-649-7189
beth.winkowski@onaro.com