Cable & Wireless Chooses BladeLogic to Automate Its Data Centers

Business Wire, May 17, 2005

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Leading International Communications Company to Scale its Data Center Infrastructure and Reduce Operational Costs by Using BladeLogic Operations Manager

BladeLogic, Inc., the leading provider of data center automation software, today announced that Cable & Wireless has selected BladeLogic as the automation platform for all of its data centers.

By implementing BladeLogic Operations Manager(TM), a suite of data center automation solutions, Cable & Wireless can automate a wide range of data center management processes, including server and software provisioning, application change management, remote administration, and ongoing patch and compliance management. Specifically, Cable & Wireless will be able to:

--scale its data center infrastructure by automating many of the manual processes currently used to manage its computing infrastructure;

--reduce operational costs by using one cross-platform solution to manage and change configurations across all types of servers and applications;

--audit, control and accurately report on complex server and application configurations in real-time;

--and improve collaboration between cross-functional teams that are involved throughout the server lifecycle management process.

"Cable & Wireless has very ambitious goals concerning the automation of our server and application infrastructure," said Zahl Limbuwala, head of operations (Hosting), Cable & Wireless. "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."

"We are extremely pleased to be working with Cable & Wireless, a major player in the telecommunications market," said Luca Lazzaron, Vice President, EMEA, BladeLogic. "With BladeLogic Operations Manager, Cable & Wireless can take a holistic approach to managing its data centers by using one platform to provision, change, configure and manage all types of servers and applications. The end result will be a highly flexible data center environment that is more efficient and responsive to the needs of Cable & Wireless' business as a whole."

About Cable & Wireless

Cable & Wireless is one of the world's leading international communications companies. It provides voice, data and IP (Internet Protocol) services to business and residential customers, as well as services to other telecoms carriers, mobile operators and providers of content, applications and internet services.

Cable & Wireless' principal operations are in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Panama and the Middle East.

For more information about Cable & Wireless, go to www.cw.com.

About BladeLogic

BladeLogic is the leading provider of data center automation software with the largest installed base of Global 2000 and other leading customers, including such organizations as AT&T, Capgemini, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, HSBC, priceline.com, Putnam Investments, Time Warner, VeriSign, Virgin Mobile and Walmart.com. BladeLogic Operations Manager, the company'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 operating costs, improved responsiveness and enhanced server security. BladeLogic is a privately held company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, please visit www.bladelogic.com.