BladeLogic Customer Receives Prestigious Award from Network World for Data Center Operations Excellence.Priceline.com Recognized by Leading Publication for Exceptional Use of Innovative Automation Technology to Support One of the Most Recognizable Websites on the Internet LEXINGTON, Mass. -- BladeLogic, Inc., the world's leading provider of data center automation software, today announced that one of its customers, priceline.com, has received the Enterprise All-Star Award from Network World magazine for its sophisticated application of data center automation software to manage mission-critical changes to thousands of servers in its three data centers. The Network World Enterprise All-Star Award program recognizes exceptional use of technology to further enterprise business objectives. For the 2006 award, Network World editors selected 40 enterprise IT organizations representing the best, most innovative application of technologies in eight different categories. These award-winning IT projects were profiled in Network World's special edition Signature Series Enterprise All-Star Issue published on September 25, 2006. Priceline.com was recognized in the Network Management category, which includes Systems Management. In a corresponding article by Editor Beth Schultz, Ron Rose Ron Rose (born September 4, 1944) is an American poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. Prior to getting involved in the poker tournament circuit, Rose was a mathematician and project engineer in the Air Force. , the CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. of the Norwalk, CT travel giant, credits BladeLogic's data center automation software for enabling priceline.com to be recognized for website uptime and providing a 60% reduction in administrative work required to maintain the site. BladeLogic's data center automation software is used to provision, update, patch and troubleshoot To find out why something does not work and to fix the problem. Troubleshooting a computer often requires determining whether the problem is due to malfunctioning hardware or buggy or out-of-date software. See debug. servers and applications, as well as to roll-out new application releases and updates without impacting the availability or performance of the website. BladeLogic recently announced the availability of BladeLogic Release 7, the industry's most advanced data center automation platform. Release 7 helps IT organizations dramatically improve IT service quality, significantly reduce operational costs, better enable compliance to operational, security and regulatory policies, and provide greater agility to respond to an ever-increasing rate of change in the data center. "We are extremely proud that priceline.com has been recognized by Network World for its data center operational excellence through its application of BladeLogic's data center automation software," said Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , BladeLogic. "Over the past four years priceline.com has utilized BladeLogic's technology to automate a wide range of vital server management tasks. By doing so, priceline.com has been able to significantly increase data center efficiencies, lower operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales and deliver superior website reliability and uptime. We congratulate the priceline.com team on receiving this prestigious award and look forward to helping them maintain their reputation as a leader in data center operations excellence." 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About BladeLogic BladeLogic is the world's 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 HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) , Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. , 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 privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 30,355 at the 2000 census. The town is famous for being the site of the opening shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first engagement of the American Revolution. , USA. For more information, please visit www.bladelogic.com. |
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