Waltham, MA - April 7, 2004 – BladeLogic, the number one provider of data center automation software, has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in a research report by Gartner, Inc. entitled, “Cool Vendors in Configuration Management.” BladeLogic was one of only three vendors cited in the Server Configuration Management market.

The report, published on March 29, 2004 and written by Analysts Donna Scott, Ronni Colville, Milind Govekar, Patricia Adams, and Debra Curtis, highlights vendors from four configuration management areas: Server Configuration Management; Network Configuration Management; Configuration Management Business Intelligence; and IT Service Configuration Management. Server Configuration Management was noted by the analysts as experiencing “a surge in enterprise interest during the past 18 months in response to the popularity of multitiered application architectures and the vast increase in change frequency (for example, rolling out new application releases, functionality, patches and others), as well as the economic reality that IS applications can’t increase staff accordingly.”

“Given that Gartner is one of the most respected technology research firms, we are pleased to be named a “cool vendor” in their report on the configuration management market,” said Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO, BladeLogic. “As more and more companies look to automate their data centers, many will turn to analyst firms, such as Gartner, to get a better understanding of the software offerings available on the market. Reports such as this one will give these companies insight on which vendors have “innovative and interesting” server configuration management products.”

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About BladeLogic
BladeLogic is the leading provider of data center automation software with a large installed base of Global 2000 and other leading customers, including Chicago Mercantile Exchange, HSBC, IBM, priceline.com, Sprint, Time Warner, VeriSign, and Walmart.com. Operations Manager 6, the latest version of BladeLogic’s award-winning suite of enterprise-class data center automation solutions, enables organizations of any size to provision, configure, and manage large-scale, distributed server environments more efficiently resulting in dramatically reduced data center costs, improved responsiveness and enhanced server security. BladeLogic is a privately held company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit www.bladelogic.com.

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