Waltham, MA, April 10, 2006—BladeLogic announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry's leading enterprise magazines, has named BladeLogic Operations Manager a finalist in eWEEK's Sixth Annual Excellence Awards program, in the Management & Networking Tools Category. Winners will be announced in May and honored at a special ceremony on May 23 in Boston, Mass. Analysis of the winning products and services will also be published in a special report in the June 19th edition of eWEEK and at www.eweek.com.

“BladeLogic is honored to be named a finalist for the 2006 eWEEK Excellence Awards, particularly since BladeLogic Operations Manager is the only software solution among the finalists that is focused directly on automating server and application infrastructure management,” said Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO, BladeLogic. “BladeLogic Operations Manager was recently named the leading data center automation software product by Forrester Research. eWEEK’s recognition of our product is further evidence that BladeLogic is setting the standard for innovation in the data center automation market.”

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries is a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners – senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives.

“A high level of innovation—both from start-ups and industry stalwarts--was what impressed us most about this year’s field of entries,” said Eric Lundquist, eWEEK Editorial Director. “It’s clear from the hundreds of entries evaluated by the Excellence Awards judges that vendors are responding quickly and effectively to the increasingly complex—and constantly changing--demands put on enterprise IT managers.”

eWEEK is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK helps its readers successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication and the eWEEK.com web site deliver breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms and trends that affect enterprise-wide computing.


Products and services were awarded in the following categories:

• Analytics & Reporting
• Application Development
• Business Integration Systems
• Business Relationship Management
• Desktop & Mobile Hardware
• E-Business Foundations
• E-Mail Management & Security
• Enterprise Collaboration
• Enterprise Storage Hardware
• Enterprise Storage Software
• IT Quality Assurance Tools
• Productivity Applications
• Server Hardware
• Management & Networking Tools
• Networking Infrastructure
• System & Application Management
• Authentication & User Management
• Network Data-stream Protection
• Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation



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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, E*Trade, HSBC, Lockheed Martin, priceline.com, Time Warner, VeriSign, 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.

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