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BladeLogic Announces New Data Center Alliance Program

Program Enables ISVs to Leverage BladeLogic’s Open Architecture to Allow Customers to Unify Best-of-Breed Management Tools in the Data Center

Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit, Orlando, FL, June 11, 2007 – BladeLogic, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, today announced the BladeLogic Data Center Alliance (DCA) program to allow Independent Software Providers (ISVs) an easy, yet powerful way to integrate their solutions with BladeLogic’s software to deliver more value to customers. This comprehensive program provides ISVs with access to BladeLogic’s award-winning software solutions, world-class sales and marketing organization, and extensive customer base in North America, Europe and Asia.

The Data Center Alliance program was initiated in response to the growing interest from ISV's and customers to integrate other solutions with BladeLogic's suite of data center automation software. BladeLogic’s software solutions automate a wide range of critical data center processes in the areas of configuration management and compliance assurance of physical and virtual servers and applications. This new program enables BladeLogic’s customers to seamlessly integrate BladeLogic solutions with other existing data center solutions to reap the full benefits of best-of-breed management tools. The DCA program includes current BladeLogic partners such as AlterPoint, Cassatt, EMC, Onaro, PatchLink, RealOps and Voyence. A number of new partners will be announced in the coming months.

“In order to increase operational efficiencies, it is critical that IT organizations implement a solution that can manage, administer, monitor and report on the automation of their IT operations processes,” said David Williams, Research Vice President, Gartner. “Since it is difficult for any one vendor to credibly offer a solution that fully supports IT operations process in all areas of the IT ecosystem and because there are no industry standards to aid in tools integration, partnership programs that promote and drive product interoperability are important because they offer IT organizations the ability to implement and integrate data center automation products of their choosing in support of their own unique IT operations process needs.”

With the cost and complexity of today's IT infrastructure spiraling out of control, enterprises are turning to BladeLogic’s software solutions to reduce operational costs, consistently enforce regulatory, operational and security compliance, increase the success rate of application deployments, and be better aligned and more responsive to the business. The BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program provides partners an effective way to expand on these customer needs while giving customers the freedom to choose the best solutions with minimal integration risk. To facilitate integration with BladeLogic’s solutions, the program includes access to BladeLogic’s evaluation software, APIs and technical support, as well as sales and marketing support to promote joint solutions.

“Customers recognize that they must introduce more automation to bring data center costs and complexity under control, and they want the flexibility to match the right solution for the particular problem at hand,” said John Scott, Vice President of Marketing & Product Development, RealOps, a proven leader and pioneer in run book and IT process automation solutions,. “RealOps is very pleased to be a partner in the BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program. Partnering with leading data center solutions such as BladeLogic helps to extend our market opportunity and provide mutual customers with an integrated and comprehensive automation solution.”

“Our partnership with BladeLogic is very important to our business in that it offers customers an integrated, best-of-breed management solution for server, application and storage infrastructure,” said Bryan Semple, vice president of marketing for Onaro. “The BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program not only enables the seamless integration of Onaro's storage service management solution and BladeLogic's leading data center automation solutions, but also allows us to collaborate with BladeLogic's world-class sales, marketing and engineering teams.”

“With the introduction of the BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program, BladeLogic allows customers the flexibility to choose best-of-breed solutions by providing seamless integration between its award-winning Data Center Automation software and numerous market-leading technologies,” said Dev Ittycheria, president & CEO, BladeLogic Inc. “As a result, customers can focus on delivering the highest quality IT services with the best available solutions in the marketplace without the headaches and costs of being in the integration business.”

To learn more about the BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program, please contact BladeLogic at +1-781-257-3500 or marketing@bladelogic.com. Attendees of the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit, Orlando, FL, June 11-13, can visit BladeLogic in booth W.

About BladeLogic
BladeLogic is a leading provider of data center automation software with a large installed base of Fortune Global 500 customers, including 9 of the top 50 global companies, 2 of the top 10 aerospace and defense companies, 6 of the top 25 commercial and savings banks, 2 of the top 5 securities companies, 2 of the top 3 entertainment companies, 2 of the top 3 general merchandisers, 6 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.

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