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Voyence Joins The BladeLogic Data Center Alliance Program

Unified Solution Provides Seamless Compliance and Configuration Management of Networks, Servers and Applications

Richardson, Texas, – June 11, 2007 – Voyence, a pioneer in automated network change and configuration management solutions, today announced it has joined BladeLogic’s Data Center Alliance program. Through the partnership program, Voyence and BladeLogic will provide both enterprise and service provider customers with a highly integrated solution for automating change and enforcing compliance across the entire data center.

“BladeLogic’s leadership in the data center automation market, and its proven architecture for configuration change and compliance assurance make this partnership a natural fit,” said Darren Orzechowski, vice president of marketing at Voyence. “The unified solution will streamline operations in the data center resulting in lower costs, better compliance and less downtime due to misconfigurations.”

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. Voyence’s solution, VoyenceControl, helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance.

The integration of these two solutions will provide IT organizations with:

• A Closed-Loop Process - For tracking change and compliance across server, application and network infrastructure.
• Increased IT Availability - Because of improved mean-time-to repair, mean-time-between failure and departmental enterprise-wide communication.
• Increased Automation – Allowing administrators to manage more devices, across domains, at a much higher quality.

“We are very pleased to partner with Voyence, a leader in the network change and configuration software market, and include them in our Data Center Alliance program,” said John McMahon, senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, BladeLogic. “BladeLogic is committed to providing customers a fully-integrated, best-of-breed management platform for their data center infrastructure. This integrated offering further exemplifies the flexibility and power of the BladeLogic architecture, and will enable IT organizations to better align IT with the business and reduce overall operations costs.”

About Voyence
Voyence is the leading provider of configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance and activation processes. The company’s solution, VoyenceControl, helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl is the only configuration and change management solution based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous infrastructure. For more information please visit www.voyence.com.

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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