BladeLogic - The Data Center Automation Company
 
 

ARTICLES

  2007      
 
 
 
  12.19.07
"10 Technologies and 20 Vendors You Should Know for 2008"
“Companies such as BladeLogic are doing a lot to automate the provisioning of servers.”
 
         
 
  12.14.07
"BladeLogic Announces Findings of Data Center Automation Survey"
“Over 90 percent of the respondents selected servers and applications when asked what were the most critical elements in the data center that demand automation.”
 
         
 
  12.12.07
"Live and Earn"
“Ittycheria drove the IPO process from start to finish,” says Merrill’s Paul Roche, the CEO’s longtime private wealth manager, who helped deliver Merrill the business. “He was able to navigate the intricacies of the process, from selecting bankers to writing large parts of the S-1, without losing focus on what had made the company successful to that point.”
 
         
 
  12.06.07
"3 Tips to Trim Data Center Costs"
"By enabling IT organizations to increase server/administrator ratios, meet critical compliance requirements faster, and better align IT with the overall objectives of the business, data center automation is turning IT into a profit center. BladeLogic hosted a Webinar today that revealed three tips to create a lean, mean data center machine."
 
         
 
  11.01.07
"Schooled in Software Entrepreneurship"
"If I had to name one quality that best describes Dev, it is perseverance," said Steve Walske, BladeLogic Chairman of the Board. "He took BladeLogic from a four-person startup in 2001 to one of the most promising public software companies in the marketplace today, all the while dealing with tough economic conditions, a brutal competitive environment, demanding customers and impatient investors."
 
         
 
  10.25.07
"Virtualization: Do Your Homework"
"Many IT managers also neglect backup and fail-over plans for virtualized environments, says Vick Vaishnavi, director of Marketing at BladeLogic, even though virtualization can make it easier for working servers to take over for failed hardware."
 
         
 
  10.04.07
"The Audacity of Faith"
"On the afternoon of July 25th, two siliconindians rang the Nasdaq closing bell to mark the closing of the US stock market. That day also signified a milestone many entrepreneurs can only dream about. It was the day the company they founded six years ago – BladeLogic – had become a public entity."
 
         
 
  10.01.07
"German Firm Chooses BladeLogic Tech"
"BladeLogic also announced that gedas has recently finished an implementation of BladeLogic software at the Frankfurt International Airport in Germany."
 
         
 
  9.17.07
"Mass High Tech Announces 2007 All Star Award Winners"
"Congratulations to this Year's All Stars: Software - Dev Ittycheria, President, CEO & Director, BladeLogic Inc."
 
         
 
  8.20.07
"ADP back-burners virtualization, cranks up heat on automated change management"
"Over the past few years, ADP has rolled out BladeLogic's Operations Manager to automate change management. This multipronged tool, which manages configurations, compliance and provisioning, eliminates the need for testers to follow ad-hoc instructions. Instead, the automation package, which comprises an application server and agents that sit on client machines, lets developers provide uniform guidelines for recreating the test environment."
 
         
 
  8.14.07
"Auto Site Chooses BladeLogic"
"Edmunds Inc., whose websites are a source for automotive information, has selected BladeLogic automation software to manage the servers and applications in its new data center."
 
         
 
networkworld
  8.07.07
"Five Tips For No-Brainer Virtualization"
"Botched changes to a physical "host" server are especially dangerous because they can hurt the availability or performance of multiple VMs, says Vick Vaishnavi, director of product marketing at BladeLogic Inc., a data center automation software vendor in Lexington, Mass."
 
         
 
  6.25.07
"Insurer Aims for Automation"
" 'We needed an automation vendor neutral enough to provide tools that seamlessly integrated the systems we had and operate in our different server environments,' said Paul Stallings of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Florida. 'Basically everything in our environment needs to be integrated to take advantage of capacity management, virtualization and other technologies.' For Stallings, that meant augmenting his use of BladeLogic's Operations Manager for server management to installing the company's Orchestration Manager software, which is designed to automatically integrate processes and centralize data from multiple, disparate sources."
 
         
 
networkworld
  6.25.07
"10 Automation Companies to Watch"
"Not only has the company added virtual support to its data-center automation portfolio, but BladeLogic also boasts an impressive customer list, including Wal-Mart, Weight Watchers, Merrill Lynch, eTrade, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Key Bank, to name a handful. "
 
         
 
Web Hosting News
  6.25.07
"Arsys Selects BladeLogic Solutions"
"Using BladeLogic, Arsys can now automate the entire server management lifecycle, including discovery, provisioning, configuration change management, compliance auditing and remediation, application release management and reporting."
 
         
 
networkworld
  6.25.07
"6 tips For Jump-starting Your Data Center Automation Project"
"For instance, BladeLogic introduced last fall its Orchestration Manager software, which is designed to provide run-time event, data exchange and workflow integration between BladeLogic software as well as third-party tools. "
 
         
 
ServerWatch
  6.11.07
"BladeLogic, Cassatt Unite for Utility Computing"
"By integrating BladeLogic's Operations Manager software with Cassatt's Collage software, large enterprises can automate daily configuration change and compliance tasks and provision hardware and software resources on demand."
 
         
 
  4.23.07
"BladeLogic Add-on Manages Virtual Servers"
"BladeLogic this week announced an add-on to its data center automation software that the company says lets IT managers monitor virtual platforms alongside their physical machines."
 
         
 
  3.29.07
"Selecting Servers for the E-commerce Operation"
"The first major decision for any company planning to establish an online presence is whether to go with a hosted e-commerce solution or whether to create their own on-premises data center. The decision to build a data center in-house, according to Vick Vaishnavi, director of product marketing at BladeLogic, depends on two criteria: economics and obligation."
 
         
 
  3.27.07
"BladeLogic Release 7 Receives Data Centres Europe Award"
"BladeLogic Release 7 received the award due to its innovative functionality and the value creation it provides to European enterprises, service providers and government organisations."
 
         
 
  3.19.07
"Netflix Chooses BladeLogic"
"Before selecting BladeLogic, Netflix managed its server and application environments using internally developed tools and scripts; by selecting BladeLogic, Netflix will be able to further streamline operations and improve service availability by fully automating the entire lifecycle of its data-management processes."
 
         
 
  3.19.07
"When IT is the Threat"
"For maintenance purposes an international financial organization in Washington, D.C. uses BladeLogic's data-center automation software to set role-based access controls and limit the types of tasks allowed."
 
         
 
  3.13.07
"Podcast: Data Center Management Challenges"
"Just like everyone else in IT, data center managers are being squeezed to get the most out of their budget. In this podcast, we sort out the bewildering set of challenges -- from compliance issues to new technologies to securing remote users -- with Vance Loiselle, the vice president of marketing and the co-founder of BladeLogic."
 
         
 
  3.12.07
"Improve Availability of Enterprise Data"
"The IT group uses BladeLogic to manage those configurations and control releases, and to run compliance reports to check for variance from standard configurations. The controls help prevent mistakes from impacting production servers, and the standard system images help speed up provisioning — a benefit that extends to disaster recovery."
 
         
 
  3.05.07
"Onaro, BladeLogic Team"
"The new offering, which combines BladeLogic’s data center automation software with Onaro’s SANscreen, is the first solution on the market to simplify the management of large data center environments by enabling IT organizations to model and manage application and infrastructure services consisting of server and storage configurations."
 
         
 
  2.26.07
"Noridian Automates Compliance Management"
"BladeLogic will ensure that the configuration of Noridian's IT systems will be consistent with the federal enterprise architecture defined by the CMS, as well as Noridian's own information system architecture."
 
         
 
  2.21.07
"General Dynamics Deploys BladeLogic"
"Using BladeLogic, General Dynamics will be able to automate the definition and documentation of policies that establish recommended configurations for servers and applications, and schedule regular scans of its server and application environments to track compliance with those policies."
 
         
 
  2.16.07
"Automating Today's Data Center"
"According to Vick Vaishnavi, director of product marketing, BladeLogic, forward-looking IT organizations now recognize that they must take a holistic approach to managing infrastructure by employing a comprehensive data center automation solution that provides the foundation for a truly responsive IT environment where business policies drive the allocation and optimization of IT resources."
 
         
 
  2.15.07
BladeLogic Gets Japanese Distribution
"Under the agreement, Macnica Networks will resell and provide value-added services for BladeLogic software to its corporate and service provider clients in Japan, the companies said."
 
         
 
  2.2.07
Automating Processes in the Data Center
“'By implementing data center automation software, BladeLogic's Vick Vaishnavi adds, IT organizations can significantly reduce data center operating costs, improve service quality, increase efficiencies, and enhance compliance and security."
 
         
 
  1.8.07
BladeLogic Names New CFO
"With nearly 30 years of financial and operational management experience, including his background as the Chief Financial Officer for three different publicly-held technology companies, Gavin joins BladeLogic as it rapidly expands its business on a global scale."
 
         
  2006      
 
 
         
 
  12.29.06
Open Source, Security, Talent Top List for '06, '07
"The talent shortage prompted tech companies to look elsewhere. BladeLogic Inc. opened a development facility
in India last fall and plans to open another facility in
Eastern Europe."
 
 
     
 
  12.19.06
Virtual Server Management Tamed By IMF
"One year ago, Ferris started working with BladeLogic Inc. and found the capabilities he was looking for. 'We have a mechanism for tracking changes. We have the capability to remediate. If a configuration change has been made, we can fix it with BladeLogic.' Ferris said."
 
 
     
 
NetworkWorld
  11.13.06
Saving Money & Time in the Data Center: Video Q&A with BladeLogic CEO Dev Ittycheria
"Can data center automation and management tools save a customer $2 million annually and deliver a three to six month ROI? BladeLogic CEO Dev Ittycheria backs up those claims on this week's Network World Hot Seat."
 
 
     
 
NetworkWorld
  10.11.06
BladeLogic Aims to Streamline Data Center Management
"Analysts say BladeLogic is getting a jump on the competition by providing “cross process” management capabilities. 'With Sarbanes-Oxley and all these external audits and internal audits, getting a handle on change control is a real issue for data centers. This is a nice improvement for BladeLogic,' says Donna Scott, a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. She says competitors, such as Opsware, don’t yet have the kind of workflow integration BladeLogic can now offer."
 
         
 
  10.10.06
BladeLogic Looks to Unify the Data Center
 
 
     
 
NetworkWorld
  09.25.06
Quick takes: Priceline.com
Taking off with Automated Server Management

"Priceline.com is well recognized for its site uptime, because of its use of BladeLogic's BladeLogic Operations Manager server-management software suite, says Ron Rose, CIO at the Norwalk, Conn., travel giant. The software automates server provisioning, updating, patching and troubleshooting."
 
 
     
 
  09.20.06
BladeLogic Sharpens Data Center Automation
"BladeLogic's latest version of its software has been certified by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to run on the AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, Solaris and Windows Server operating systems. It thus lays claim to being the first data center automation suite to receive enterprise-level CIS certification."
 
 
     
 
  09.18.06
Suite Aims to Manage Data Centre Complexity
"BladeLogic Release 7 has a new synchronous management architecture, which provides firms with a single point from which to view all configuration management activities undertaken by different IT teams."
 
 
     
 
InformationWeek
  09.18.06
BladeLogic Enhances Data Center Management Platform
"BladeLogic's Release 7 uses what it calls synchronous management to allow IT organizations to synchronize all configuration management activities across various IT teams."
 
 
     
 
  09.18.06
BladeLogic Syncs Data Center Policies
 
 
     
 
InformationWeek
  09.12.06
ADP Automates SOA Development And Deployment
"ADP is creating a system to automate and synchronize software development, testing, and deployment. "This is the glue that allows us to take all these different software groups and bring them together," says Bob Bongiorno, CIO of ADP's biggest unit, Employer Services. The system uses BladeLogic's data center automation software running on Linux on Intel-based servers."
 
 
     
 
  09.06.06
Betfair Deploys BladeLogic Solution
"BladeLogic's automation capabilities enable Betfair to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes to service requests by the company's release team, enabling that team to work on other IT initiatives."
 
 
     
 
NetworkWorld
  08.25.06
Managing the Virtual Dream
"At Cars.com, in Chicago, BladeLogic provided the management capabilities Edward Christensen, director of technical operations, needed for his virtualized server environment. The online automotive company uses VMware to virtualize servers on HP boxes in its development and quality-assurance environments. It needs to have a "fast refresh cycle," Christensen says, and that requires virtualization. It also requires a fast way to make sure systems are configured and operating up to preset policies. For that, Christensen tapped BladeLogic, which he already had been using for server management."
 
 
     
 
  08.15.06
Expedia Picks BladeLogic
"Following a rigorous evaluation process that included the industry's leading data center automation vendors, BladeLogic was selected by Expedia for its proven ability to automate the complete server and application lifecycle from deployment to ongoing operations for the most complex applications in the most demanding environments."
 
 
     
 
NetworkWorld
  08.11.06
Patch Management Buyer's Guide
"BladeLogic Configuration Manager, a component of the BladeLogic Operations Manager suite of data center automation products, allows IT organizations to provision, patch, configure, and update servers across platforms and data centers."
 
 
     
 
Database Trends and Applications
  08.07.06
Open Source DBs Move In
"Concerns about support, security and available management tools may be holding back open source databases from gaining importance in enterprises. 'Issues like these force IT organizations to look at open source databases only for non-mission critical purposes,' said Vick Vaishnavi, director of product marketing for BladeLogic"
 
 
     
 
  06.02.06
BladeLogic adds India center, expands to bigger U.S. base
"BladeLogic's Vick Vaishnavi estimates that the Asia-Pacific data center market is about 10 percent of what he said is a $10 billion worldwide data center market. 'It's a mushrooming market,' he said."
 
 
     
 
  05.24.06
BladeLogic opens lab in India
"BladeLogic Inc. has opened an India software development laboratory that will employ 50 people by the end of this year and 150 by the close of 2007."
 
 
     
 
  05.24.06
BladeLogic opens R&D facility in Pune
"Vijay Manwani, Chief Technology Officer, BladeLogic, said the Pune centre would help in building modules for its suite of data centre automation software."
 
 
     
 
Computerworld
  05.1.06
Managing Virtual Machines
"While virtualization-specific management tools are a good option today, ultimately, 'you need something that manages the virtual and the physical together,' says Forrester Analyst Frank Gillett. BladeLogic Inc., which offers a virtualization-aware configuration life-cycle management tool, contends that a single set of policies should control both worlds. Once the policy and "personality" of a server are defined, 'every instance of the server, whether physical or virtual, is treated more as a compliance exercise,' says Vick Vaishnavi, director of product marketing at BladeLogic in Waltham, Mass."
 
 
     
 
SiliconIndia Magazine
  04.25.06
Bladelogic Launches R&D Facility In India
"To support the company’s rapid growth, BladeLogic decided to build its first development facility outside the U.S. The new research and development center in Pune provides the company with access to a large pool of exceptional software engineering talent, enabling BladeLogic to rapidly augment its existing software development operations in the U.S."
 
 
     
 
  03.31.06
Sixth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards Finalists
 
 
     
 
NetworkWorld
  03.20.06
Mercantile Exchange Uses Automated Change Management
"Since deploying BladeLogic's Operations Manager in the fall
of 2004, the CME has experienced no downtime because of inconsistent versioning or file configurations, Munoz says. That's a big relief for IT, as inconsistencies previously would result in outages and CME customers going into failover mode, she adds. Now with Operations Manager, Munoz runs a command to check a new configuration against the previous version. If anything is off - the size of binaries, for example - the tool issues an alert, and she can initiate a rollback. Like the rollout of an application-layer change across a trading firm's 20 servers, for example, rollback would take no more than 4 minutes, she says. "
 
 
     
 
  03.06.06
Virgin Mobile Gets Automated
"U.K. wireless giant Virgin Mobile dodged a licensing bullet and slashed server configuration times with new automation software that it plans to extend to the firm's back-end storage. Virgin Mobile, which serves around 5 million U.K. customers, deployed BladeLogic's Operations Manager at the start of last year."
 
 
     
 
  03.02.06
BladeLogic Picked By VeriSign for Configuration Management
"BladeLogic Inc., a Waltham-based provider of data center automation software, has been chosen by VeriSign Inc. to supply its solutions to enable continuous configuration management and compliance assurance to support the Mountain-View, Calif. company’s server and application infrastructure."
 
 
     
 
  02.09.06
Touting Server Management for Virtual Environments
"One vendor that's already drilled down into this space is BladeLogic. Its Operations Manager uses a software-based agent to configure servers. Vick Vaishnavi, the firm’s director of product management, told Byte and Switch that the software can also handle VMware virtual machines."
 
 
     
 
  02.03.06
Data Center Management Simplified
"Recently Galen Schreck of Forrester Research named BladeLogic the front-runner in the data center automation market, which includes such luminaries as IBM, Veritas, HP, and Sun (none of whom performed as highly on Forrester’s tests)."
 
 
     
 
WebHosting.Info
  01.27.06
E*Trade Financial Selects BladeLogic
"By selecting BladeLogic Operations Manager, leading companies such as E*Trade Financial can use one platform to provision, configure, and manage their server and application environments, enabling them to increase staff productivity and improve cost structure while supporting a large and rapidly growing data center infrastructure."
 
 
     
 
  01.15.06
Automating The Data Center
BladeLogic CTO Vijay Manwani discusses the challenges data centers face today and how IT organizations can overcome these challenges.
 
 
     
 
  01.13.06
Carphone Warehouse Picks BladeLogic
"Managing change to our servers and applications is critical to the success of our business but, based on personal experience, is not an easy challenge to address," says Simon Post, CTO for The Carphone Warehouse. "We initiated a very thorough evaluation of all available data center automation solutions, and after a thorough analysis, selected BladeLogic."
 
 
     
 
  01.11.06
Are You A Strategic CFO?
"Melissa Cruz, CFO of Waltham, Massachusetts-based BladeLogic, states: "The role of the CFO is about imagining the future with the management team," she explains, "and then translating that into financial action."
 
         
  2005      
 
 
         
 
  12.12.05
Technology Shifts, User Requirements Bring On-demand Business Model to Life
"Utility computing is to IT what the PBX system was to telecom, according to Vick Viren Vaishnavi, director of product marketing with BladeLogic, a supplier of data-center automation software. 'Just as the PBX made automated call switching possible, virtualized services in a data center will allow shared services and underlying resources like CPUs, memory, and configuration files to be managed dynamically,' he says."
 
 
     
 
  11.10.05
3 Questions: Balancing Server Configuration Management with Business Requirements
By implementing management software solutions that integrate configuration management and compliance assurance, enterprises can reduce labor costs, increase IT staff productivity and lower compliance assurance costs,' said Vick Vaishnavi, Director of Product Marketing, BladeLogic."
 
 
     
 
  10.07.05
Mass. Technology Leadership Council Honors Tech Leaders "The awards ceremony recognized 10 leaders who have made vital contributions to the tech industry. The winners selected included Dev Ittycheria, CEO of BladeLogic."
 
   
 
Database Trends and Applications
  09.15.05
Tie Data Automation to Business Processes
"Configuration management is critical to any DC automation effort, said Vick Viren Vaishnavi, director of product marketing for BladeLogic."
 
 
   
 
  09.14.05
BladeLogic Brings in $7M in Fourth Funding Round
"BladeLogic will use the new capital business growth, with a focus on expanding its global presence as well as increasing investments in its sales and research and development organizations."
 
       
 
   09.10.05
Automatic Failover, Back-up Sites, Outsourcing among the Strategies for Ensuring Data Availability
"BladeLogic provides the tools, solutions, and strategies to ensure high data-center availability."  
 
 
     
 
Federal Computer Week
  09.05.05
10 Hot Companies to Watch
"BladeLogic has quickly established a federal foothold for its data center automation product."
 
     
 
CRN
  08.22.05
Star Search: BladeLogic
"BladeLogic is growing revenue and head count by more than 100 percent a year and has significant presence in the 100 largest companies in the world."
 
 
     
 
InfoWorld
   08.1.05
BladeLogic Brings Order to Data Center Chaos
"BladeLogic Operations Manager turns complex server and application infrastructure, such as provisioning and configuration management, into a collection of transparent, easy-to-manage virtual IT services. The end result: IT staff can easily and quickly translate business requests into operational tasks."  
 
     
 
NetworkWorld
  06.27.05
The Sky's the Limit: For Priceline CIO Ron Rose, the 'New Data Center Operating System' Leads to Infinite Business Possibilities.

"BladeLogic crosses architectural tiers and vendor architectures. So in our case we can use one tool to control Windows, Linux and Solaris and to roll out - and, just as importantly, roll back - features with precision and speed. We rolled BladeLogic out three years ago. At that time, a rollback across the entire Web tier could take an hour and a half. Using BladeLogic, our ability to roll back went from an hour and a half to literally 10 minutes."
 
 
   
 
SiliconIndia Magazine
  06.15.05
Developing a High Performance Organization
"In a high performance organization employees are insanely dedicated to the success of the company, deeply passionate about winning, upset when they lose, and do whatever it takes to get the job done." Dev Ittycheria, CEO of BladeLogic
 
     
 
Database Trends and Applications
  06.06.05
BladeLogic Tops Data Center Automation Product List
"Vick Viren Vaishnavi, director of product marketing for BladeLogic, provides insights on the most critical aspects data center managers need to be aware of when looking at DCA solutions"
 
     
 
InfoWorld
  05.24.05
nLayers, BladeLogic Partner on Automation Solution
"The integrated BladeLogic/nLayers offering will give customers a real-time view of their applications and interdependencies, and enable them to track demand, usage, and service levels in real time, leading to better optimization of resources."  
 
 
   
 
  05.18.05
Cable & Wireless Picks BladeLogic Server Automation
"After a careful and thorough evaluation of all available technologies, we selected BladeLogic Operations Manager as it was the only data center automation solution that could meet our stringent business requirements for today as well as be our automation platform for the future," says Zahl Limbuwala, head of operations for hosting at Cable & Wireless.  
 
 
   
 
NetworkWorldFusion
  05.02.05
Mergers, Acquisitions and the CMDB
"CMDB initiatives are bringing together very distinctive communities of vendors, ranging from platforms and frameworks that, yes, will compete to be the center of the CMDB universe, to vendors focused on application service discovery; to service catalog vendors; to business service management vendors; to network and systems change and configuration vendors, such as BladeLogic."
 
 
     
 
CRN
  04.30.05
BladeLogic CEO Sees $10 Billion Systems Management Market
"Looking to make a name in systems management, BladeLogic has been quietly growing at a steady pace for the last four years thanks to growing interest in lowering IT costs. But with the advent of blade centers and a new wave of distributed computing, BladeLogic CEO Dev Ittycheria says this space will soon mushroom into a $10 billion market. In an interview with CRN Editor In Chief Michael Vizard, Ittycheria talks about what economic and technical factors are driving a need for a new approach to systems management at customers such as HSBC, Walmart.com, Priceline, Time Warner and Putnam Investments."
 
     
 
WebHosting.Info
  04.19.05
Computacenter to Resell BladeLogic's Services "Computacenter will resell BladeLogic Operations Manager to its existing clients and potential customers throughout Europe, and also be actively involved in the delivery of implementation and consulting services for BladeLogic customers."  
 
 
   
 
  03.21.05
WildCard Systems Deploys BladeLogic
"WildCard Systems has deployed BladeLogic to automate various data center processes, including bare metal OS and application provisioning, on-going changes to granular system and application configuration settings, and the compliance of servers to comprehensive security and patch policies."  
 
 
     
 
InformationWeek
  03.21.05
Blades: The Edge Of Acceptance
"By using operations-management software from companies such as BladeLogic, businesses can better configure their blade-server resources into specific software applications that can be used by various operating units."  
 
     
 
ServerPipeline.com
  03.21.05
Blade Management Tools Take Center Stage
"Third-party software developers are even further along the blade management path that customers want to follow, it seems. It's no surprise that pure software firms such as BladeLogic are hardware-agnostic."  
 
 
   
 
WebHosting.Info
  03.03.05
BladeLogic and Orange UK Extend Agreement
"BladeLogic will be used to distribute and configure various types of software components, including application files, patches and packages, to a large number of disparate servers with different operating systems."  
 
 
     
 
InformationWeek
  02.21.05
Stand and Deliver
"Software applications designed to automate IT operations include packages from major systems-management vendors such as Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, and offerings from companies such as BladeLogic."  
 
     
 
NetworkWorldFusion
  02.16.05
The Many Faces of Application Management
"Add to the mix those tools that are designed to provision systems for applications. This includes IBM’s Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP Business Suite and BladeLogic."  
 
 
   
 
  02.07.05
BladeLogic lands Virgin Mobile as customer
"Virgin Mobile will use BladeLogic Operations Manager to deploy software to its pre-production and production server environments and to streamline the process of updates and changes being made to all server environments."  
 
 
     
 
NetworkWorldFusion
  01.24.05
Data Center Automation
"Forrester Research recently put out a paper detailing how enterprise companies should select a data center automation vendor. In the report, companies such as BladeLogic were evaluated for their effectiveness in providing software to automate tasks such as provisioning, patching and software distribution. According to Forrester, 'Offering the most detailed configuration management capability of any vendor in the study, BladeLogic Operations Manager models services and configuration elements across platforms.' "  
 
     
 
  01.11.05
Putnam Picks BladeLogic Server Tools
"Putnam Investments will use BladeLogic Operations Manager to automate the server management lifecycle, including server and software provisioning, application change management, remote administration and ongoing patch and compliance management."
 
         
  2004      
 
 
         
 
  12.13.04
Vendors Push Data Center Virtualization
 
 
     
 
BusinessWeek
  11.09.04
Special Report: Utility Computing
"One poster child is BladeLogic, a Waltham (Mass.) company that has received $22 million from Battery, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Globespan Capital Partners. BladeLogic's software can manage thousands of server computers as though they were one giant machine. It's akin to putting a giant mainframe through a cheese grater, jokes one investor. More important, companies like Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) and General Electric Co. (GE) are buying it, says Agrawal. In all, BladeLogic has more than 100 customers."  
 
     
 
Network Magazine
  10.25.04
Trading On Change
"With BladeLogic Operations Manager, we can verify that all the changes were backed out. Without it, finding all the changed components