BladeLogic Announces Server Consolidation and Data Center Relocation Webinar with Rearden Commerce and Enterprise Management Associates

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2006

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- BladeLogic, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, announced today that it will host a webinar on Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 11:30 a.m. (ET) entitled, "Effectively Managing Server Consolidation and Data Center Relocation Projects." The presenters will include Christopher McDaniel, Director of IT Operations, Rearden Commerce, and Andi Mann, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates.

With the advent of virtualization, cost control initiatives and today's distributed computing paradigm, more and more IT organizations have undertaken server consolidation and/or data center relocation initiatives in order to keep pace with increasing IT and business demands. By doing so, these organizations have been able to:

* Significantly expand and upgrade their data center server and application infrastructure

* Decrease the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of their IT infrastructure by reducing staff and hardware costs through server consolidation

* Identify means to consolidate server infrastructure using virtualization to control the number of servers

* Improve business continuity to ensure data center replication capabilities

* Quickly integrate server and application infrastructures due to key business events such as mergers/acquisitions, expansions, business downturn and new partners

In this webinar, McDaniel and Mann will discuss some of the challenges IT organizations face with data center relocation and server consolidation from configuration management and compliance assurance perspectives, such as:

* How to ensure that the relocated server/application infrastructure is compliant with the baselines used during the move or relocation

* Best practices for Logical, Physical and Rationalized server consolidation

* If the driver for the move or relocation is business continuity, how to ensure continuous compliance between primary and secondary sites

* How to integrate server/application infrastructures across data centers if consolidation is a driver for the move or relocation

* How to seamlessly migrate the necessary IT controls to ensure compliance across security, operational and regulatory requirements

Date: October 19, 2006

Time: 11:30 a.m. (ET)

To register for this webinar, please visit the BladeLogic website at:

http://www.bladelogic.com/news/events.html

You may also register by e-mail at trodman@bladelogic.com. If you are registering via e-mail, please include your name, company name and e-mail address.

About BladeLogic

BladeLogic is the leading provider of next-generation data center automation software with the largest installed base of Global 2000 and other leading customers, including such organizations as Capgemini, E*Trade, HSBC, Lockheed Martin, priceline.com, Time Warner, VeriSign, Virgin Mobile and Walmart.com. BladeLogic'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 service quality, increased efficiencies, and enhanced compliance and security. BladeLogic is a privately held company headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, please visit www.bladelogic.com.