BladeLogic Introduces ''Virtualisation Manager'' to Unify Virtual and Physical Server and Application Management

BladeLogic, Inc., a leading provider of data centre automation
software, today announced the availability of BladeLogic
Virtualisation Manager(TM), a new software solution to enable seamless
management of physical and virtual computing platforms. BladeLogic
Virtualisation Manager, a new module in the BladeLogic Operations
Manager(TM) suite of data centre automation solutions, contains rich
functionality to browse, provision, patch, audit, remediate,
administer and manage virtual servers.

By allowing multiple operating systems to be housed on one
physical device, server virtualisation helps IT organisations reduce
capital costs and address important IT initiatives such as server
consolidation and business continuity. However, as server
virtualisation steadily gains acceptance, IT organisations recognize
that to fully embrace server virtualisation in production environments
they require data centre automation tools to effectively manage this
new computing platform. For example, a normally trivial issue of
providing server access to a systems administrator becomes far more
complicated in a virtualised environment. Organisations will no longer
be able to just provide physical access to a particular box, but
rather have to provide "functional" access - due to the variety and
class of virtual instances that may be housed on a single physical
machine - based on the skills and functional privileges of the
administrator. Moreover, the requirement for cross-platform tools to
seamlessly manage the heterogeneity of virtual and physical computing
platforms becomes even more important.

"While virtualisation technology makes it easier to address
important initiatives such as server consolidation, the proliferation
of virtualisation significantly exacerbates the overall challenge of
managing today's data centre computing resources," said Vijay Manwani,
Chief Technology Officer, BladeLogic. "BladeLogic Virtualisation
Manager's ability to perform sophisticated management tasks in a
virtualized environment provides IT organisations with a single
platform for managing both virtual and physical server environments,
with the goal of supporting more rapid adoption of virtualisation with
less risk and lower costs."

By providing out-of-the-box native support for the industry's
leading server virtualisation technology, VMware ESX, BladeLogic
Virtualisation Manager is designed to enable IT organisations to
seamlessly manage, control and enforce configuration changes to both
virtual and physical server and application environments allowing them
to respond more quickly to changing business requirements in order to
maximize business value from the data centre.

Key features of BladeLogic Virtualisation Manager include:

-- A single interface and unified policy for virtual and physical
server environments resulting in highly consistent management
of server and application configurations

-- Native support for tasks such as provisioning, deleting,
starting and stopping virtual machines with built-in auditing
capabilities

-- Granular role-based access control that can be managed at the
virtual host, virtual machine or configuration level to
control, track and report on user activity and configuration
changes

-- Rules-based auditing to provide flexible and accurate auditing
within and across virtual and physical servers

-- Integrated packaging and remediation of virtual host and
machine configurations to allow for easy portability and
resource tuning across servers and data centres

For more information about BladeLogic Virtualisation Manager,
please contact BladeLogic at +1-781-257-3500 or sales@bladelogic.com.

To see a demonstration of BladeLogic Virtualisation Manager at the
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, April 23-25, please visit
BladeLogic in booth # 704.

About BladeLogic

BladeLogic is a leading provider of data centre 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 centre automation software solutions
enable enterprises, service providers and government organisations to
easily browse, provision, configure, patch, audit and remediate
physical and virtual servers and applications, allowing customers to
achieve reduced data centre 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.