EDMUNDS INC. SELECTS BLADELOGIC’S
DATA CENTER AUTOMATION SUITE TO EXPEDITE BUILD-OUT OF NEW DATA
CENTER
America's Most Influential and Authoritative Source of Automotive
Information to Use BladeLogic Software to Provision and Manage
Servers and Applications
Lexington, MA, August 14, 2007—BladeLogic,
Inc. (Nasdaq: BLOG), a provider of leading next-generation data
center automation software, today announced that Edmunds Inc.,
America’s most influential and authoritative source of automotive
information, has selected BladeLogic’s award-winning suite
of data center automation software solutions to automate the provisioning
and management of all servers in its new state-of-the-art data
center.
Prior to selecting BladeLogic, Edmunds used an assortment of server
management software tools that were not well integrated and required
highly specialized skills and extensive scripting. Edmunds is
currently undergoing a major data center relocation project that
will be completed later this year. Due to the aggressive timeframe
of the project, Edmunds’ IT organization launched a competitive
evaluation of the leading data center automation solutions to
help expedite the relocation process. After a rigorous evaluation
of the available tools in the marketplace, Edmunds selected BladeLogic’s
data center automation software as it provided the most comprehensive
and scalable solution to rapidly provision and manage all of its
servers as well as enable the automation of other key management
processes including configuration management, compliance assurance
and application release management.
“We had planned to implement an automated provisioning system
in the near future. The data center relocation we were facing
prompted us to seek out a solution that we were confident could
be implemented and could deliver results within our compressed
timeline,” said Philip Potloff, Executive Director of Infrastructure
Operations, Edmunds.com. “After an exhaustive evaluation
of a number of leading data center automation solutions, the proof-of-concept
team felt that BladeLogic was the only major contender that could
meet our deployment and provisioning schedule. As part of this
build-out effort, we were also able to leverage BladeLogic to
baseline our system and application installation process, thereby
ensuring rapid and consistent deployments across our large production
and pre-production environments.”
“Edmunds’ web sites have achieved impressive accolades
from leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal and
Forbes, and most importantly, consumers,” said Dev Ittycheria,
president and CEO, BladeLogic, “The efficiency of Edmunds’
new data center will be critical in ensuring that all four of
its web sites are fully operational and able to quickly respond
to the changing needs of the business and its customers. By selecting
BladeLogic, Edmunds has a comprehensive data center automation
solution that will assure that its new data center is turned up
quickly and that its server and application environments are managed
consistently and efficiently.”
About BladeLogic (NASDAQ:BLOG)
BladeLogic is a provider of leading data center automation software
with a large installed base of Fortune Global 500 customers, including
10 of the top 50 global companies, 3 of the top 10 aerospace and
defense companies, 6 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 6 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.
BladeLogic Media Contact:
Tedd Rodman
BladeLogic
781-257-3560
trodman@bladelogic.com
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