Atos Origin Selects Opsware to Achieve Greater Flexibility and Agility; Strategic Investment Will Help Drive Customer Service and Innovative Quality Programme.LONDON -- Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :OPSW), the leading provider of IT Automation software, announced that Atos Origin Atos Origin, SA (Euronext: ATO) is an international IT corporation which operates in 40 countries worldwide, with over 50,000 employees. The corporate headquarters are located in Paris, France and Zaventem, Belgium. , a leading business and technology integrator, will deploy Opsware's Server Automation System (SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. ) across its key data centres in the UK. The move reflects Atos Origin's drive to further improve and innovate its customer service and quality programme through a strategic investment in Opsware's IT automation software. The deal is significant as it underscores Opsware's position as the preferred vendor among large outsourcers. Bob Seaton, director of Managed Infrastructure Services, Atos Origin, said, "In order to meet the demands and expectations of our many customers, we need to be agile as well as flexible. Opsware's IT automation software provides us with this capacity by allowing us to manage our data centres more efficiently and thus react quicker to ever-changing customer requirements. It also enables Atos Origin to speed up our innovation initiatives." "We evaluated all available solutions on the market and chose Opsware for its product superiority, breadth of capabilities and company track record. The company's stability and maturity coupled with its credentials and experience in IT automation convinced us that we had chosen the right partner to support our plans to further grow and optimise our service delivery to our multi-national customers," says John Stevenson John Stevenson may refer to:
"Atos Origin has earned a reputation for delivering consistently high levels of customer service. Their data centres are central to this. The investment that they have made in Opsware's server automation software reflects the desire to move to a single lifecycle management platform in order to achieve further efficiency gains across their data centres," said Remy Dubois, VP EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. , Opsware. About Atos Origin Atos Origin is an international information technology services company. Its business is turning client vision into results through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed operations. The company's annual revenues are EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 5.5 billion and it employs over 47,000 people in 40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. and has a client base of international blue-chip companies Blue-chip company Used in the context of general equities. Large and creditworthy company. Company renowned for the quality and wide acceptance of its products or services, and for its ability to make money and pay dividends. Gilt-edged security. across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Euronext Market Solutions, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting. For more information, please visit the company's web site at http://www.atosorigin.com. About Opsware Inc. Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT Automation software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of servers, networking devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes automated IT operations a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and enables IT to automatically discover, provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate Verb 1. reallocate - allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" reapportion allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of servers, network devices and applications. Over 350 of the world's largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com. Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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