BLADELOGIC ANNOUNCES ENHANCED
MANAGEMENT ACROSS DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH INTEGRATION
WITH VMWARE INFRASTRUCTURE 3
BladeLogic Virtualization Manager’s Seamless Integration
with VMware API to Enhance Manageability and Accelerate Adoption
of Virtualization in Production and Pre-Production Environments
San Francisco, CA, September 11, 2007—BladeLogic,
Inc. (Nasdaq: BLOG), a leading provider of next-generation data
center automation software, today announced at VMworld the availability
of enhanced management capabilities for VMware Infrastructure
3. By seamlessly integrating BladeLogic Virtualization Manager™
with the VMware application programming interface (API), BladeLogic
enables IT organizations to expand their use of the VMware virtualization
platform to production environments allowing those organizations
to respond more quickly to changing business requirements, reduce
systems management costs and increase the overall efficiency of
their physical and virtualized infrastructure.
Through a pioneering virtualization approach, VMware solutions
separate the operating system and application software from the
underlying hardware, delivering significant improvements in efficiency,
availability, flexibility and manageability. BladeLogic Virtualization
Manager is a software solution that enables IT organizations to
seamlessly manage, control and enforce configuration changes to
both virtual and physical server and application environments.
The tight integration between BladeLogic Virtualization Manager
and the VMware API provides IT organizations that have deployed
VMware Infrastructure 3 a single interface and unified policy
for both their virtual and physical server environments resulting
in highly consistent management of all of their server and application
configurations.
Features of BladeLogic’s integration with VMware Infrastructure
include:
• Rich configuration item support (including native VMware
configuration objects, virtual host and machine relationships,
and virtual machine resource configurations) to allow for precise
and accurate information when diagnosing a problem and making
a change;
• Cross platform automation support for tasks such as provisioning,
deleting, starting and stopping virtual machines with built-in
auditing capabilities to enable IT organizations to quickly respond
to the demands of the business while maintaining appropriate governance
controls;
• Best-practice workflows to implement a process-driven
approach to change management, incident/problem management and
release management across VMware environments for configuration
management tasks including provisioning, repurposing, decommissioning,
backup and recovery. This allows IT organizations to easily comply
with process standards such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
• Policies to automate both the on-line and off-line patching
of virtual machines and VMware ESX Server hosts to ensure that
both physical and virtual machines meet security compliance guidelines;
• Granular access control templates which grant permissions
to specific virtual machines, VMware ESX Server hosts and VMware
configuration items based on the role and level of experience
of the user to enable a workload sharing approach to managing
virtualized environments, resulting in reduced management costs;
• Integrated packaging and promotion of applications across
physical and virtual environments to increase the success rate
of application rollouts across multiple VMware ESX Server environments
ranging from development to production;
• The ability to implement a rules-based compliance approach
to consistently enforce compliance across physical and virtual
environments with support for auditing and remediation across
VMware ESX Server hosts and virtual machines.
“Over the past year we have seen a great deal of interest
in virtual infrastructure software being deployed in production
data centers. These customers clearly see the potential benefits
of reduced server footprints and increased system utilization
rates. Alongside this they are looking at ways to simplify the
management and control of their entire server and application
infrastructure,” said Brian Byun, vice president of global
partners and solutions, VMware. “By providing a unified
management platform for both virtual and physical environments,
BladeLogic’s integration with the VMware API is designed
to simplify systems management challenges across server environments
and better enforce compliance policies.”
“BladeLogic’s solutions provide customers across many
vertical industries a highly efficient platform for managing virtual
and physical environments,” said Vijay Manwani, Chief Technology
Officer, BladeLogic. “Combining BladeLogic’s solutions
with the industry-leading VMware virtualization platform enables
IT organizations to maximize the efficiency and production of
their data center infrastructure. We look forward to continuing
our work with VMware.”
About BladeLogic (NASDAQ:BLOG)
BladeLogic is a leading provider of 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, Inc.
+1-781-257-3560
trodman@bladelogic.com
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