Lexington, MA, October 2, 2006—BladeLogic, Inc., the world’s leading provider of data center automation software, today announced that one of its customers, priceline.com, has received the Enterprise All-Star Award from Network World magazine for its sophisticated application of data center automation software to manage mission-critical changes to thousands of servers in its three data centers.
The Network World Enterprise All-Star Award program recognizes
exceptional use of technology to further enterprise business
objectives.
For the 2006 award, Network World editors selected 40 enterprise
IT organizations representing the best, most innovative application
of technologies in eight different categories. These award-winning
IT projects were profiled in Network World's special edition
Signature Series Enterprise All-Star Issue published on September
25, 2006. Priceline.com was recognized in the Network Management
category, which includes Systems Management.
In a corresponding article by Editor Beth Schultz, Ron Rose, the CIO of the Norwalk, CT travel giant, credits BladeLogic’s data center automation software for enabling priceline.com to be recognized for website uptime and providing a 60% reduction in administrative work required to maintain the site. BladeLogic’s data center automation software is used to provision, update, patch and troubleshoot servers and applications, as well as to roll-out new application releases and updates without impacting the availability or performance of the website.
BladeLogic recently announced the availability of BladeLogic Release 7, the industry’s most advanced data center automation platform. Release 7 helps IT organizations dramatically improve IT service quality, significantly reduce operational costs, better enable compliance to operational, security and regulatory policies, and provide greater agility to respond to an ever-increasing rate of change in the data center.
“We are extremely proud that priceline.com has been recognized
by Network World for its data center operational excellence
through its application of BladeLogic’s data center automation
software,” said Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO, BladeLogic.
“Over the past four years priceline.com has utilized BladeLogic’s
technology to automate a wide range of vital server management
tasks. By doing so, priceline.com has been able to significantly
increase data center efficiencies, lower operating costs and
deliver superior website reliability and uptime. We congratulate
the priceline.com team on receiving this prestigious award and
look forward to helping them maintain their reputation as a
leader in data center operations excellence.”
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About BladeLogic
BladeLogic is the world’s leading provider of next-generation
data center automation software with the largest installed base
of Global 2000 and other leading customers, including such organizations
as Capgemini, HSBC, Lockheed Martin, priceline.com,
Time Warner, VeriSign, Virgin Mobile and Walmart.com. BladeLogic’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 service quality, increased
efficiencies, and enhanced compliance and security. BladeLogic
is a privately held company headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts,
USA. For more information, please visit www.bladelogic.com.
Press Contact:
Tedd Rodman
BladeLogic
781-257-3560
trodman@bladelogic.com
