BladeLogic to Provide Enterprise Data Center Automation for Chicago Mercantile Exchange.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004 Automation of Server Management Lifecycle Enables Nation's Largest Futures Exchange Futures Exchange Traditionally, a term referring to a central marketplace where futures contracts and options on futures contracts are traded. More recently, with the growth in electronic trading, it is also used to describe the activity of futures trading itself. to Rapidly Respond to Business Demands While Reducing Costs BladeLogic Inc., the number one provider of data center automation software, today announced that Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures. Inc., the largest futures exchange in the U.S., has selected BladeLogic Operations Manager See datacenter manager. (TM) to efficiently manage its enterprise data center operations. As a global marketplace, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). ) handles an average of nearly 2.6 million trades per day, supported by a highly sophisticated data center environment with thousands of servers. After a thorough assessment of available solutions, CME selected BladeLogic as its data center automation platform to automate the lifecycle of managing server and application infrastructure. CME expects that the use of BladeLogic will enable greater IT responsiveness to the business and significant improvements in operational efficiency. "To support several hundred million transactions per year, application availability and IT responsiveness are critical to CME's business," 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. "We are delighted that CME has selected BladeLogic Operations Manager to efficiently manage its enterprise data center operations." BladeLogic Operations Manager enables IT organizations to efficiently and securely provision and configure their UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Linux and Windows servers and automate all ongoing changes required for application release management, patch management, and configuration repair. Furthermore, BladeLogic Operations Manager enables IT managers to proactively measure compliance to security and configuration policies and automatically correct discrepancies in order to maintain configuration consistency in the data center. By providing the ability to effect large scale provisioning and change while ensuring compliance to policies, Operations Manager allows organizations to implement "Coherency co·her·en·cy n. pl. co·her·en·cies Coherence. Noun 1. coherency - the state of cohering or sticking together coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness " - which enables any change, across any platform, with any skill(TM) - to address today's key data center management challenges while offering a tangible roadmap to a utility computing environment. About Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the largest futures exchange in the United States. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX(R) electronic trading platform. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moved about $1.5 billion per day in settlement payments in the first nine months of 2003 and managed $34.1 billion in collateral deposits at Nov. 30, 2003. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CME), which is part of the Russell 1000(R) Index. Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CME and GLOBEX are registered trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. About BladeLogic BladeLogic is the number one provider of data center automation software with a large installed base of Fortune 500 and other leading customers including General Electric, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Priceline, Sprint, SunGard, Qwest, VeriSign, Walmart.com and WebEx. BladeLogic Operations Manager(TM) enables any change, across any platform, with any skill - allowing companies to efficiently provision, configure, and manage today's complex application infrastructure with a proven return on investment in 3-6 months. BladeLogic is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.bladelogic.com. |
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