BLADELOGIC INTRODUCES “VIRTUALIZATION
MANAGER” TO UNIFY VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL SERVER AND APPLICATION
MANAGEMENT
New Software Module Provides Seamless Management across
Physical & Virtual Environments to Enable the Use of Virtualization
Technologies for Mission-Critical Computing Environments
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, San Francisco, CA, April 23,
2007— BladeLogic, Inc., a leading provider of data
center automation software, today announced the availability of
BladeLogic Virtualization Manager™, a new software solution
to enable seamless management of physical and virtual computing
platforms. BladeLogic Virtualization Manager, a new module in
the BladeLogic Operations Manager™ suite of data center
automation solutions, contains rich functionality to browse, provision,
patch, audit, remediate, administer and manage virtual servers.
By allowing multiple operating systems to be housed on one physical
device, server virtualization helps IT organizations reduce capital
costs and address important IT initiatives such as server consolidation
and business continuity. However, as server virtualization steadily
gains acceptance, IT organizations recognize that to fully embrace
server virtualization in production environments they require
data center automation tools to effectively manage this new computing
platform. For example, a normally trivial issue of providing server
access to a systems administrator becomes far more complicated
in a virtualized environment. Organizations will no longer be
able to just provide physical access to a particular box, but
rather have to provide “functional” access –
due to the variety and class of virtual instances that may be
housed on a single physical machine – based on the skills
and functional privileges of the administrator. Moreover, the
requirement for cross-platform tools to seamlessly manage the
heterogeneity of virtual and physical computing platforms becomes
even more important.
“While virtualization technology makes it easier to address
important initiatives such as server consolidation, the proliferation
of virtualization significantly exacerbates the overall challenge
of managing today’s data center computing resources,”
said Vijay Manwani, Chief Technology Officer, BladeLogic. “BladeLogic
Virtualization Manager’s ability to perform sophisticated
management tasks in a virtualized environment provides IT organizations
with a single platform for managing both virtual and physical
server environments, with the goal of supporting more rapid adoption
of virtualization with less risk and lower costs.”
By providing out-of-the-box native support for the industry’s
leading server virtualization technology, VMware ESX, BladeLogic
Virtualization Manager is designed to enable IT organizations
to seamlessly manage, control and enforce configuration changes
to both virtual and physical server and application environments
allowing them to respond more quickly to changing business requirements
in order to maximize business value from the data center.
Key features of BladeLogic Virtualization Manager include:
• A single interface and unified policy for virtual and
physical server environments resulting in highly consistent management
of server and application configurations
• Native support for tasks such as provisioning, deleting,
starting and stopping virtual machines with built-in auditing
capabilities
• Granular role-based access control that can be managed
at the virtual host, virtual machine or configuration level to
control, track and report on user activity and configuration changes
• Rules-based auditing to provide flexible and accurate
auditing within and across virtual and physical servers
• Integrated packaging and remediation of virtual host
and machine configurations to allow for easy portability and resource
tuning across servers and data centers
For more information about BladeLogic Virtualization Manager,
please contact BladeLogic at +1-781-257-3500 or sales@bladelogic.com.
To see a demonstration of BladeLogic Virtualization Manager at
the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, April 23-25, please
visit BladeLogic in booth # 704.
About BladeLogic
BladeLogic is a leading provider of data center automation software
with a large installed base of Fortune Global 500 customers, including
9 of the top 50 global companies, 2 of the top 10 aerospace and
defense companies, 6 of the top 25 commercial and savings banks,
2 of the top 5 securities companies, 2 of the top 3 entertainment
companies, 2 of the top 3 general merchandisers, 6 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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