Aperture Joins The BladeLogic
Data Center Alliance Program
Aperture and BladeLogic partner to integrate physical and logical
change and configuration management and provide unified platform
STAMFORD, CT – November 26, 2007– Aperture
Technologies Inc., the leading global provider of software for
managing the physical infrastructure of data centers, announced
today that it has partnered with BladeLogic (Nasdaq: BLOG), a
leading provider of next-generation data center automation software,
to become part of the BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program.
The partnership, effective immediately, will provide IT organizations
with a unified platform to integrate physical and logical infrastructure
for managing change and compliance in the data center. The BladeLogic
Data Center Alliance program provides BladeLogic partners an easy,
yet powerful way to integrate their solutions with the BladeLogic
data center automation software suite.
Aperture VISTA enables IT executives to manage today’s complex
data center environments through advanced planning and management
capabilities. Aperture VISTA provides data center managers with
a visual representation of the data center; including the space
available, power consumption and cooling requirements. In large
data centers, Aperture VISTA is an invaluable tool that ensures
optimal uptime and effective capacity management. BladeLogic’s
suite of data center automation software solutions enables IT
organizations to manage, control and enforce configuration changes
to servers and applications in order to realize maximum value
from the data center.
The combination of the BladeLogic and Aperture solutions enables
critical data center assets, both logical and physical, to be
viewed across IT organizations and departments. This partnership
provides data centers with a common view of the operational, physical
and logical state of servers and applications to improve change
success rates and demonstrate better and continuous compliance.
Through procedures such as asset management, configuration management
and change orchestration, the combined offering provides a comprehensive
view of the data center real estate and applications.
Steve Yellen, vice president of Product and Market Strategy for
Aperture Technologies, said: “We are proud to join the BladeLogic
Data Center Alliance program. Our products complement each other
perfectly to provide data center managers with details of assets
and configurations, resulting in a full view of the physical and
logical configuration attributes of the data center. Providing
the most comprehensive data to our customers while delivering
cost saving benefits to the data center is essential – this
partnership delivers both.”
Vick Viren Vaishnavi, vice president of Marketing, BladeLogic
said: “This integration is a natural evolution towards bringing
the physical and logical aspects of data center management on
a common platform. Power and cooling costs continue to escalate,
data center space is becoming scarcer, and there is ever growing
pressure to push more changes to the data center. As a result,
IT managers need solutions which can help them plan and manage
physical and logical configurations in concert. The combination
of these two solutions allows IT managers to be more agile to
meet business demands, mitigate the risks of configuration changes,
and reduce all aspects of operational costs, including staffing,
space and power.”
About Aperture
Aperture is the leading global provider of software for managing
the physical infrastructure of data centers. Aperture’s
solutions reduce operational risk and improve efficiency through
the planning and management of data center resources and real-time
monitoring of the environment. Aperture delivers the best practice
processes that enable organizations to take control of an increasingly
complex physical infrastructure including equipment, space, power,
cooling, network and storage.
With over 20 years of experience, Aperture provides organizations
with the information required to optimize their data center operations,
delivering better services at the lowest cost. Aperture’s
customers include the world’s largest companies, half of
which are Fortune 1000 and Global 500 organizations.
For more information, please go to: http://www.aperture.com
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
21 of the top 100 global companies, 3 of the top 10 aerospace
and defense companies, 7 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 7 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
Tedd Rodman
+1-781-257-3560
trodman@bladelogic.com
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