BladeLogic Provides Enterprise Server Management Automation for ETRADE FINANCIAL

Business Wire, Jan 24, 2006

WALTHAM, Mass. -- BladeLogic, Inc., a leading provider of data center automation software, today announced that E*TRADE FINANCIAL, a provider of financial services including trading, investing, banking, and lending solutions for retail and institutional customers, has licensed BladeLogic Operations Manager(TM) to manage its enterprise server infrastructure. BladeLogic Operations Manager is a suite of data center automation solutions that integrates server configuration management and compliance assurance capabilities, enabling IT organizations to provision, configure, and manage their server environments more efficiently while ensuring continuous compliance with security and regulatory policies.

"With proven efficiency and cost reduction benefits, BladeLogic's software has quickly spread across many different vertical markets, including financial services," said Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, 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."

About BladeLogic

BladeLogic is a leading provider of data center automation software with the largest installed base of Global 2000 and other leading customers, including such organizations as Cable & Wireless, 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 achieve continuous configuration compliance across large-scale, distributed server and application environments, resulting in dramatically reduced data center operating costs, improved responsiveness, increased efficiencies, and enhanced security. BladeLogic is a privately held company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, please visit www.bladelogic.com.