90% of Survey Respondents Cite Servers and Applications as the Most Critical Data Center Elements that Mandate Automation
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Friday, December 14, 2007; 03:47 AM
Lexington, MA — BladeLogic, Inc.
(Nasdaq: BLOG), a leading provider of next-generation data center
automation software, announced the findings of a data center
automation survey the company conducted last week. The survey
was part of a webinar hosted by BladeLogic entitled, “Turning
Your Data Center into a Profit Center.” Over 400 IT managers
and executives from leading global organizations registered for
the webinar, which featured a live roundtable discussion with
senior-level IT executives from E*Trade, General Dynamics and
VeriSign.
The interactive online survey was designed to poll the audience
on key issues regarding each organization’s IT management
strategy. As part of the survey, when the audience was asked what
were the most critical elements in the data center that demand
automation, over 90% of the respondents selected servers and applications.
Respondents also overwhelmingly responded that configuration management,
over other areas such as service monitoring and problem management,
was the top management function that required automation.
“The results of the webinar survey clearly indicate that
in order to make the biggest impact on addressing the cost, risk
and complexity of managing the data center, automating the management
of servers and applications is a priority,” said Vick Viren
Vaishnavi, vice president of marketing, BladeLogic, and moderator
for the webinar. “With attendees representing nearly every
major industry segment, the survey responses clearly demonstrate
that configuration management is an important priority for most
IT organizations.”
In the webinar, the executives from E*Trade, General Dynamics
and VeriSign discussed their best practices for automating their
data center environments and the business benefits they have experienced
by doing so. These leading IT executives also shared their data
center automation insights, business drivers for automation, key
challenges, critical risks and lessons learned. The webinar panelists
indentified major cost savings in areas such as:
• data center operations costs by improving server to administrator
ratios;
• administration costs by consolidating tools and centralizing
management of multi-vendor, multi-platform environments;
• provisioning costs by consolidating and centralizing all
activities across platforms;
• compliance audits by automating the enforcement of compliance
policies;
• software deployment costs through increased accuracy of
distributed application rollouts across environments;
• service downtime costs by enabling fast rollback of incorrect
configuration changes;
• and operating costs by automating manual and error-prone
procedures.
Among the many best practices cited by the webinar panelists,
the ones that were credited as critical to reducing costs were:
• workload sharing that enables IT organizations to handle
operational tasks using lower cost resources;
• shared services that enable a platform agnostic operations
model for consistent management across platforms;
• and adopting a policy-based approach to implement and
enforce continuous compliance to reduce misconfigurations that
cause service downtime.
To view an archived version of this webinar, please visit the
BladeLogic website at:
http://www.bladelogic.com.
About BladeLogic (NASDAQ:BLOG)
BladeLogic is a provider of leading data center automation software
with a large installed base of Fortune Global 500 customers, including
21 of the top 100 global companies, 3 of the top 10 aerospace
and defense companies, 7 of the top 25 commercial and savings
banks, 3 of the top 5 securities companies, 2 of the top 3 entertainment
companies, 2 of the top 3 general merchandisers, 7 of the top
12 pharmaceutical companies and 7 of the top 10 telecommunications
companies. BladeLogic’s data center automation software
solutions enable enterprises, service providers and government
organizations to easily browse, provision, configure, patch, audit
and remediate physical and virtual servers and applications, allowing
customers to achieve reduced data center operating costs, improved
service quality and enhanced security and compliance. BladeLogic
is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. For more information,
please visit www.bladelogic.com.
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