BladeLogic Selected by Betfair for Automated Server Management; World's Leading Online Betting Exchange Automates Data Centre Processes Using BladeLogic Operations Manager

BladeLogic, Inc., the leading provider of data centre
automation software, today announced that Betfair, the world's leading
online betting exchange, has selected BladeLogic's award-winning
software to automate its server management initiatives.
Betfair will initially use BladeLogic to automate the complex
processes for building environments on its development and quality
assurance servers, and the deployment of code across multiple
platforms. In the past, both of these processes were done manually and
required extensive staffing. Using BladeLogic's automation
capabilities, Betfair is now able to drastically reduce the amount of
time allocated to servicing requests by the company's release team,
enabling that team to work on other strategic IT initiatives. Moving
forward, Betfair will expand its use of BladeLogic to include server
auditing and compliance, change and configuration control, and
security and patch management.
"At the core of Betfair's success is its use of cutting edge
technology," said Saranjit Soor, Head of Software Deployment, Betfair.
"By using BladeLogic's industry-leading solutions to manage complex
release processes, our administrators will now be able to deploy code
to the development and quality assurance server environments through
automation. The same automation can also be used for staging and
production. The use of BladeLogic will mitigate risk during the whole
release cycle and ensure all environments are consistent and compliant
to Betfair's standards"
"As an online exchange that processes 5 million transactions per
day, it is critical that Betfair's IT infrastructure be highly
available and flexible," said Luca Lazzaron, Vice President, EMEA,
BladeLogic. "Through its selection of BladeLogic, Betfair now has an
end-to-end solution that can automate all of its server management
processes and guarantee that its server environment is always up and
running. We are very excited to have Betfair as a customer and look
forward to helping them to optimize their server infrastructure."

About Betfair

Betfair is the world's leading online betting exchange, a concept
it has pioneered. Driven by cutting-edge technology, Betfair enables
punters to choose their own odds and bet against each other, even
after an event has started. Betfair processes 5 million transactions a
day and more than 300 bets a second.

About BladeLogic

BladeLogic is the leading provider of data centre automation
software with the largest installed base of Global 2000 and other
leading customers, including such organisations as Capgemini, E*Trade,
Expedia, HSBC, Lockheed Martin, priceline.com, Time Warner, VeriSign,
Virgin Mobile, and Walmart.com. BladeLogic's award-winning suite of
enterprise-class data centre automation solutions enables
organisations of any size to achieve continuous configuration
compliance across large-scale, distributed server and application
environments, resulting in dramatically reduced data centre operating
costs, improved responsiveness, increased efficiencies, and enhanced
security. BladeLogic is a privately held company headquartered in
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, please visit
www.bladelogic.com.