USAA Selects BladeLogic to Help Manage its Growing Data Center Operations

Automation of Server Management Lifecycle to Increase IT Efficiency While Reducing Costs

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Tuesday, January 6, 2004; 12:00 AM

Bedford, MA – January 6, 2003 – BladeLogic Inc., the number one provider of data center automation software, today announced that USAA, a member-owned Fortune 500 insurance and diversified financial services company, has selected BladeLogic Operations Manager to help manage its growing data center operations. BladeLogic’s software automates manually-intensive processes associated with provisioning, configuring and managing application infrastructure enabling companies to significantly increase operational efficiencies while dramatically reducing costs.

BladeLogic Operations Manager enables IT organizations to efficiently and securely provision and configure their UNIX, 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" - which enables any change, across any platform, with any skillTM - to address today's key data center management challenges while offering a tangible roadmap to a utility computing environment.

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, Microsoft, Priceline, Sprint, SunGard, Qwest, VeriSign, Walmart.com and WebEx. BladeLogic Operations ManagerTM 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.

Press Contacts Michael Bettua BladeLogic 908-991-2016 michael.bettua@bladelogic.com Jaime Lovejoy Horn Group, Inc. 212-931-5203 jlovejoy@horngroup.com